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Trains Magazine 1953 July Trains & Travel I rode the Big Blow Story of WP Hiawat
Trains July 1953 Vol 13 No 9
CONTENTS
Railroad news and editorial comment. By David P. Morgan.6
The trains that cost too much. Photos by Philip R. Hastings.14
Would you like to lose $500,000 a year on part of your business? Neither would the Western Maryland, which wants to drop much of its passenger service.
I rode the "Big Blow." By Wallace W. Abbey.--18
Out in the Wasatch Mountains the Union Pacific is making motive-power history with its roaring, ready-to-go gas turbines.
Notable feats of railroad engineering:
Erie's mighty Kinzua. By Wallace W. Abbey.-25
Some people say there's a vast treasure buried near the foot of this tremendous steel viaduct.
Famous 15. By Dick Nation and Jim Scribbins.-27
When diesels came to the Hiawathas, two EMD units distinguished themselves with many high-speed runs. Here are the logs of three runs.
Photo section.-------31
Nineteen pages of railroads in action.
To the waters of the West. By Gilbert H. Kneiss.-50
Trains & Travel begins the two-part history of the Western Pacific Railroad, the country's youngest transcontinental.
Famous steam locomotives:
Capacity and earning power. By Frederick Westing.54
Iron ore is heavy freight, but the 0-10-2's of the Union Railroad toted it around easily.
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