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Trains Magazine 1956 June Union Pacific to Canada Roanoke Aerotrain
Trains Magazine 1956 June Union Pacific to Canada
66 Pages
Railroad news and editorial comment. By David P. Morgan.6
A look at the results of Mr. Perlman's two years at New York Central's throttle.
Railroad news photos.---8
Steam is very much in the news this season - making comebacks and retirements.
America's wonder train of 1929. By W. A. B. Davidson.14
Ever wonder how all those plush all-coach trains started? Meet Blue Comet.
Union Pacific to Canada?---18
Spokane International has attracted the eye of big Union Pacific - and here's why.
Tractive effort of the adjective. By Wake Hoagland.22
A salute to the boys who make the musty Official Guide such delicious reading.
Roanoke: Alamo for steam. By David P. Morgan with
photographs by Philip R. Hastings.---24
Beginning a new steam series in a most fitting place: Roanoke - bastion of steam.
Photo section. ---29
Railroading: from the cameras of TRAINS readers in every part of the country.
Aerotrain - 2224 miles of it! By Rosemary Entringer.42
Wherein 185 rail enthusiasts give GM's lightweight its most rigid test to date.
Balloon stacks and link-and-pin couplers. Photographs by
Jim Shaughnessy.--47
Here's a swampland lumber road that isn't bothered much by the likes of progress.
Coffee on a shoestring. By Brian Fawcett.50
Those Brazilians scale the 8 per cent grade of the Serra do Mar almost on a string!
MR. PERLMAN AT THE THROTTLE
TIME was when a railroad annual report came about as close to defining the word "dull" as anything short of warm beer. It was little more than the balance sheet and income statement required by law, plus a certificate of public audit and a brief notice to the effect that the directors wished to thank everybody concerned for their co-operation last year. That was before Wall Street's flight to the grass roots in search of the small investor and before switchmen and car knockers began buying common on payroll deduction plans.
Spring is annual report time for the 848,000 stockholders who own America's railroads, and this spring many of these owners look as if they're thumbing a newsstand purchase. Rio Grande splashes a color portrait of the California Zephyr in Glenwood Canyon across the cover of its 1955 report while Norfolk Southern shows, in three photos, how to replace a "hazardous and expensive-to-maintain" timber trestle with a "practically maintenance-free and safer" steel bridge. Baltimore & Ohio interestingly jackets its 129th consecutive annual with a facsimile of a $1000 First Consolidated Mortgage 37,A per cent bond, Series A, due August 1, 1970. To soften the $814,000 Jersey Central spent to put its track back after Hurricane Diane had misplaced it, JC's report features a centerspread of nine before-and-after photos.
To celebrate its best year ever, Chesapeake & Ohio goes all out with a swanky, soignreport that includes, among other illustrations, a color drawing of a typical coal drag's GP9's, 160 hoppers, and caboose .crossing the Alleghenies "as it might be seen at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va."; C&O's DC-3 flying office car; and 11 directors (seven of whom wear ingratiating smiles geared to an annual dividend of $3.50 last year).
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