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Trains Magazine 2003 October Man & Machine In the shops On the road In the Cab
Trains Vol 63 No 10 October 2003
Table of Contents
COVER STORY
34 Men and Machines
What moves freight and passengers? People and locomotives, that's what! Start with our data sheet on EMD's SD70M, then visit the shops and ride in the cabs. Matt Van Hattem
FEATURES
40 Alcos were best
Every engineer has a favorite; mine was the RS3. Dorris Campbell
42 This ain't magic: Inside Amtrak's 3 shops
Consultants wanted 4mtrak to shutter its shops. Here's why they were wrong (read the toaster story). Bob Johnston
52 In service to a nation: Men of the Southern
1947: When railroading was more than a business, more than a career. It was the lifeblood of a dominant nation. J. Marvin Black
62 Map of the Month: Western power plants
Where coal comes from and goes to in the West.
64 Railroad Blueprint: Hutchinson, Kansas, 2003
City of salt mines, grain elevators, and diamonds. Dan Munson
NEWS
12 Railroad News & Photos
Toil and trouble in Washington: 4mtrak, reregulation, and trucks
16 Don Phillips
4mtrak's angel, but you do not know the name Michael P. Jackson
22 Larry Kaufman
Scenarios for the next mergers, and postmortems on the last few
28 Locomotives
What happens to locomotives when Class Is don't need them?
30 Passenger
OK, Amtrak hasn't got a growth strategy now-but it needs one
32 City Rail
Seattle's Sound Transit begins its tunnels; plus latest U.S. news
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office 70 Railroad Reading
82 Ask Trains
86 Preservation
90 New Products
98 40 Years Ago in Trains
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