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Classic Trains Special Edition #35 2024 Holiday Winter on the Rails
Classic Trains Special Edition #35 2024 Holiday Winter on the Rails
Contents
6 The Winter of '36
BY JOSEPH C. O'HEARN
Division superintendent relates how the Milwaukee Road fought heavy snows in subzero cold
12 Battle of the Snowflakes
BY STEPHEN BOGART
The fight to keep lines open begins long before the first snowfall and grows more intense as winter storms approach
18 Mr. Jordan's Marvelous Multidexterous Machine
BY JERRY A. PINKEPANK
In its realm, the Jordan spreader had no equal 26 Not Pretty in Pink
BY BROOKS A. BENTZ
An old Jordan spreader and a young assistant train-master plow through monstrous snow and cold
28 Battling Blizzards on the Big G
BY HOWARD S. PATRICK
All the excitement, hard work, and long hours had not gone out with the exit of steam
36 The Leslie Brothers & Their Giant Snowblower
BY PAUL SWANSON
The story of the ultimate steam-powered shovel
48 Snowy Side-by-Side
A moment in time on the Illinois Central
50 The Part of Railroading I Could Do Without
BY JERRY PYFER
A difficult winter trip on the Milwaukee Road's "Southwestern"
56 Vanishing Snowplows
BY GLENN CUNNINGHAM AND DOUGLAS J. FEAR
As southwestern Ontario branch lines have disappeared, so has the need to clear them of snow
64 Dragons & Brooms
BY BILL STEPHENS
How Conrail battles snow in Buffalo
68 White-out at Wayne Avenue
Penn Central keeps the freight flowing
70 Final Winter for the Narrow Gauge
BY FRANK BARRY
American steam's last great battle against snow 78 A Midnight Through Frozen Vermont
BY JIM SHAUGHNESSY
With diesels on the way and the temperature at 20 below zero, the all-weather cab of a 4-8-4 was the best place to be
84 Six-Wheeler Vs. Snow
BY BERT PENNYPACKER
The mail must go through, so a Reading yard goat lent a hand to a frozen-up doodlebug in 1942
88 Of Dispatcher Rosey, a Howling Snowstorm, Almost-Cornfield-Meet
BY DAN SABIN
A 17-year-old Rock Island relief operator has a close call at Iowa Falls
98 The Worst: Colorado's Rollins Pass
BY MARK W. HEMPHILL
No mainline mountain pass exceeded its 11,660 feet
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