Classic Trains Special Edition #21 2017 Holiday Great Trains Freight

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Classic Trains Special Edition #21 2017 Holiday Great Trains Freight
 
Classic Trains Special Edition No.21 2017 Holiday Great Trains Freight
8 A Day on a Way Freight  BY A. C. KALMBACH Ride with the crew of a Milwaukee Road local, a vital link for the towns it serves
16 Like a Blue Streak  BY STEVE PATTERSON All about the Cotton Belt's fleet of fast merchandise trains
28 Summer Frenzy on Lake Erie  BY HERBERT H. HARWOOD Northern Ohio teemed with coal and ore trains for a few months each year
38 Case History of a Spud Train  BY DAVID P. MORGAN A Santa Fe hotshot speeds millions of potatoes from California to Chicago
46 First 56, Engine 758  BY JOHN A. REHOR Get ready - you are the engineer of a Nickel Plate 2-8-4 on a fast freight
50 How to Handle the Hot Ones  BY FRANK E. SHAFFERInside Chesapeake & Ohio's automated hump yard at Russell, Ky.
58 Freights in PhotosA gallery of hotshots, tonnage trains, piggyback, and more on 10 railroads in 10 states
68 Following Mr. Goodson's Ford  BY DAVID P. MORGAN Tracking a 1962 Galaxie from assembly to acceptance via L&N's hot Automobile Special
80 Wartime Freight on the Burlington  BY HENRY D. RENNWALD How heads-up handling and a new yard keep vital traffic on the move during World War II
86 Meat Train  BY WILLIAM D. MIDDLETONIllinois Central's Iowa Division moves more meat than all the other railroads in the state combined
96 Central States Dispatch  BY WALLACE W. ABBEY B&O, WM, Reading, CNJ, L&HR, and New Haven team up to whisk freight to New England
106 56 Drivers vs. 2.2 Percent  PHOTOS BY HENRY R. GRIFFITHS JR.Four locomotives shepherd a Union Pacific freight through the Blue Mountains of Oregon
112 As the Rabbit Chases the Beagle up the RatholeRide the cab over one of the Southern's busiest routes in 1974  BY MICHAEL E. IDEN

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