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Classic Trains Special Edition #7 Fast Trains in the Golden Years of Railroading
Fast Trains Classic Trains Special Edition in the Golden Years of Railroading
114 Pages
Contents
8`Make Her Go Fast' Ed King From high-drivered 4-4-0's to diesel streamliners to late-running drag freights, speed was once part of railroading's soul
14 Chicago-Twin Cities Speed War Joe Welsh For three decades, North Western's 400, Burlington's Twin Zephyrs, and Milwaukee's Hiawathas competed in this corridor
28 Super C: The World's Fastest Freight Jack Elwood Ride with the engineer for 268 miles on the inaugural run of Santa Fe's premier intermodal train in January 1968
38 Speed, Signals, and Safety Michael W. Blaszak What happened when railroads and regulators looked to automatic devices to make fast trains safer
54 Hudson: Passenger Speedsters Neil Carlson 10 The 4-6-4 locomotive was a varnish star on more than a dozen railroads, led by New York Central and Canadian Pacific
64 Banana Trains of Mid America Kevin J. Holland How Illinois Central and other railroads helped speed America's most-consumed fresh fruit to our tables
76 A Strong Closing Performance Mike Martin
A night to remember in 1952-when a 4-8-4 relieved E units on the Burlington Route's Coloradoan
94 Coast to Coast in Record Time Peter A. Hansen
Union Pacific streamliner M-10001's dramatic 1934 dash from Los Angeles to New York was part road test, part publicity stunt
Who Gets to Fargo First? Bill Kuebler
A 10-year-old rides the caboose as Northern Pacific's hotshot 600 races" the North Coast Limited from the opposite direction
104 Pennsy's Fast Track to the Future Greg Gormick
A 22-mile segment of PRR main line in New Jersey was a laboratory for the Northeast Corridor and its Metroliners
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