Trains Magazine 2003 February Fastest freight in America Map CSX predecessors SF

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Trains Magazine 2003 February Fastest freight in America Map CSX predecessors SF
 
Trains Vol 63 No 2 February 2003
Table of Contents
COVER STORY
32 Blank bullet
Often failure teaches you more than success. This is the story of the 65-hour, coast-to-coast hotshot the railroads built, that the customer decided it didn't want.  Fred W Frailey

FEATURES
44 Who is Axel Zwingenberger?
The answer: a photographer who thinks steam locomotives are the coolest thing on earth.  Matt Van Hattem and M.R. Valentine
52 Map of the Month: CSX Predecessors
Ever wonder where a big system came from? We map the 22 Class Is and several short lines that went into this 23,000-mile system.
54 Trouble shooter
The story of an expert in mud, wrecks, and local politics, in the piney woods of East Texas in the early 1970s.  Steve Patterson
64 Somebody's gotta step up
Puget Sound & Pacific has set the pattern short lines will follow: expand even if it means using trucks, or die.  Thomas Hillebrant
NEWS
to Railroad News & Photos
Growth, abandonment, acquisition ... it's been a busy month
14 Don Phillips
4mtrak isn't going away under the all-Republican regime
18 Larry Kaufman
Chuck Schultz applied engineering to marketing at BNSF
24 Locomotives
Third builder MPI makes a play for U.S. locomotive market
26 Passenger
High-speed rail leaps another hurdle, in Illinois
30 City Rail
Western cities want commuter trains to join light rail
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
5 Railway Post Office
70 Railroad Reading
78 Ask Trains
84 Preservation
88 New Products
98 55 Years Ago in Trains

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