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Trains Magazine 2004 April Mountain Railroads Big engines Big Grades Building th
Trains Vol 64 No 4 April 2004
Table of Contents
MOUNTAIN RAILROADS SPECIAL26 The mountain way
Around, through, or over: the railroad geography of the United States and Canada. Ten major problems, 42 solutions.
53 The urosts
The biggest, the baddest, the worst: 10 grades that defined mountain railroading.
62 Big engines for big grades
Eight definitive locomotives: a century of inspiration, experimentation, success, and a few blind alleys. J. David Ingles
65 Getting them up the grade
To get to the top of the mountain, you must defy gravity. The Norfolk & Western tried every way imaginable. Ed King
74 Building the mountain railroad
Canadian Pacific versus Canadian Northern in British Columbia. What a difference 30 years makes! R. M. Bailey
82 Old men of the mountain
What was life like at the last pusher station on Canadian Pacific? Well, it was the best job on the railway. Blair E. Kooistra
92 Getting them down the grade
To get down the mountain, you must obey gravity. Do it wrong at your peril! Ed King
114 The top 30
Tonnage over the mountains: 2002 vs. 1972
NEWS
10 Railroad News & Photos
BNSF looks to close its TransComs double-track gaps
14 Don Phillips
Why I left the Washington Post
18 Larry Kaufman
Railroads have fundamentally changed how they haul grain
20 Locomotives
A Midwest Alco stalwart goes all-EMD; Metra mothballs F40Cs
22 Passenger
Rolling popsicles: Amtrak shops battle winter weather
24 City Rail
St. Louis Metrolink keeps on growing; dented rears in Houston
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