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Trains Magazine 2002 October The power issues F59PHI Data Sheet 10 Greatest
Trains Vol 62 No 10 October 2002
Table of Contents
FEATURES
Cover story The Power issue
30 Amtrak numbers racket
We debunk the conventional wisdom that says corridor trains pay and long-distance trains don't. Edwin R. Kraft
36 Top 10 diesel locomotives
Trains picks the 10 diesel locomotives that most changed railroading ... and the 10 that changed nothing.
48 EMD's H-Series engine
Get inside its 6000 h.p. power plant: it's the biggest from this builder, coming to a locomotive near you.
50 Locomotive Data Sheet No.1: F59PHI
First in a new TRAINS series. This issue: EMD's F59PHI, a favorite of commuter railroads. David Lustig
56 X-Man
Love it or hate it, designer Cesar Vergara is changing the face of railroading. Joe Greenstein
64 Map of the Month: locomotive production
OK, it's really a chart this month. How else do you show the production of diesel locomotives from 1972 to 2001?
NEWS
10 Railroad News & Photos
4mtrak leaps a funding hurdle; NS downgrades Buffalo line; New tunnel for the Detroit River? Ted Rose obituary
13 Don Phillips: Potomac Pundit
Are railroaders the problem with railroad management?
17 Larry Kaufman: Industry Insider Public-private partnerships: subsidy or good policy?
24 Locomotives
The 4BCs of EMD's 567 engine; CN's WC power auction
26 Passenger
New operating plans look good, but what about marketing?
28 City Rail
Taking the the train to the train: where they connect
DEPARTMENTS
6 From the Editors You must pay to play
7 Railway Post Office
UP's desert boom, Guatemala, 4mtrak vs. airlines
66 Railroad Reading
Uncle Bill wouldn't have liked this ...
76 Ask Trains
PRR: red vs. green; Santa Fe steam; FEC out to sea
80 Preservation
EBT funding plan fails; closure burns C&TS; SP 0-6-0
84 New Products
Recommended readjng: "The Chicago Tunnel Story"
94 Hot Shots
SP stacks; sunset on the W≤ Santa Fe wig-wag; waiting
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