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R&LHS Bulletin Railroad History #226 2022 Spring-Summer CNJ 1000
R&LHS Bulletin Railroad History #226 2022 Spring-Summer CNJ 1000
Railroad History is published twice annually in May & November. Covers, FRONT: Seeking to attract sport-fishing enthusiasts to its passenger trains in the early 20th century, the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad advertised itself as "The Fishing Line." (Map, R.W. Hafer Collection; timetable art, Dan Cupper Collection)BACK
BACK: An Electro-Motive diesel switcher locomotive is lowered onto its trucks in the builder's La Grange, Ill., factory in the 1930s. (Preston Cook Collection)
Contents
Streamlined vanguards, Union Pacific's M-10000 and Burlington Route's
Burlington Zephyr meet at Kansas City Union Station in 1934. Both trains
were powered by Winton diesel engines, and blazed a trail for General
Motors' domination of 20th-century diesel locomotive production.
10 Trains and Trout
Railroads and the evolution of
sport fishing in America.
By R.W. Hafer
24 The Story of
EMD's Plant One
The rise and fall of the "Home of
the Diesel Locomotive."
By Preston Cook
46 A Winton/EMC/EMD Chronology
A corporate timeline to mark the centennial of Electro-Motive's founding.
Compiled by Preston Cook
56 Broken Hopes
A north-south railroad in Idaho.
By Thornton Waite
66 Low Brakers, Horses,
and No Air
Letters from an early railroad man.
By J.W. Swanberg
76 The Oxford Co-operative Car Company
The short life of a 19th-century Pennsylvania car builder.
By John Bradley
84 CNJ No. 1000
A historic diesel gets a makeover
at the MO Museum.
By Dan Cupper
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