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Trains Magazine 1996 January Wabash country Fairbanks-Morse Train master AZ wrec
Trains 1996 January
Exiled to the Delta
36 Life will never be the same on the old City of New Orleans route. by Bob Johnston
Swan Song for Indian Steam
3 Q Steam retreats from yet another V stage, but some will survive. by R. K. Evans
Today's Railroading: A Terrific Sendoff
40 On his last trip out of Hoboken, a New Jersey Transit engineer gets a fond farewell.
by Joe Greenstein
Automotive Artery
42 Norfolk Southern still has the hustling Wabash spirit on its main line from Detroit to Kansas City and St. Louis.
by Bill Stephens
The Peru 173
56 A Wabash tale: after the "tractor episode," one farmer would never forget to stop, look, and listen.
by Ed King
Once Upon a Time in TRAINS: Wabash at War
5n(n A 4-8-2 prepares to grapple with the tonnage of a nation at war. Landmark Locomotive:
FM's Train Master
60 Fairbanks-Morse's 2400 h.p. workhorse was too big, too early, and too different for 1953.
by J. David Ingles
On Location:
Trains in a Desolate Land
66 Union Pacific's struggle across the desert in northeastern Nevada is worth the long, lonely journey.
by Doug Harrop
Calendars for All Time
l/4 Learn how an artist creates a cal- `= endar painting for Amtrak, the last major railroad to commission them.
by Dan Cupper
Images from a Glorious Past
8oNew York Central and Santa Fe are the stars of the first two books in a new series from Kalmbach.
DEPARTMENTS
6Editorial
8Railway Post Office
14 Potomac Pundit
16 The Boomer
18 Railroad News
22 Arrivals & Departures
29 Scanner
30 Railroad News Photos 84 Readers' Platform
86 ABC's of Railroading 90 Reviews
100 New Products
102 Preservation Points 106 Schedules
112 Observations
115 Glossary
116 Classified Advertising 122 Photo Finish
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