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Trains Magazine 2004 October BNSF reborn UP Predecessors map Towerman's nightmar
Trains 2004 October
34 BNSF Reborn
Behold the Transcon: Burlington Northern Santa Fe's route to prosperity and laboratory for the 21st century railroad. Fred W Frailey
FEATURES
32 Mississippi Mudlark
When the monsoon hits, it's hard to tell the locomotives from the muddy landscape - even in a painting. Ed King
50 Returning to the rails
Charlotte, N.C., prepares to launch commuter light-rail service on a former Southern Railway line. Ernest H. Robl
52 Long night in Chicago
A last-minute call, a busy tower, headlights staring at me from
every direction ... my worst night on the railroad. James R. Stuart
56 The age of innocence
New York City was a train-watcher's paradise in the 1960s, and
this musician explored it all, with camera in hand. William Harry
66 Map of the Month: Union Pacific predecessors The biggest of the biggest grew tremendously since deregulation. We map the fallen flags that formed today's 33,000-mile system.
NEWS
12 Railroad News & Photos
18 Don Phillips
Our Potomac Pundit becomes the sage of the Seine
24 Mark W. Hemphill
The purpose of railroading has changed 180 degrees
26 Locomotives
New orders for a growing family of battery-powered locomotives
28 Passenger
Bargains abound! The art and science of setting fares, filling seats
30 City Rail
PATH announces $809 million plan to replace entire rail fleet
ARTMENT
4 From the Editor
6 Railway Post Office 68 Gallery
72 Railroad Reading
78 Ask TRAINS
80 Preservation
82 New Products
90 60 Years Ago in TRAINS
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