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Trains Magazine 2012 March Inside CSX Cumberland SHop Crazy Cargoes
Trains Magazine 2012 March
FEATURES
The spirit of Cumberland
At CSX Transportation's historic locomotive shop, computer monitors are as commonplace as hammers John Hankey
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Shane meet Bill, Bill meet Shane
Two men who never met share a knowledge of and passion for steam, and a similar stance during their engines' care
Jim Wrinn
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Map of the Month: Boston commuter trains: 1954 and 2011
See how service has grown in one of America's earliest commuter hubs
Matt Van Hattem
38
Funky freights
America's railroads don't haul just coal, grain, and containers. Check out these weird shipments on steel rails
Andy Cummings, Mike Harbour, and Thomas J. Nanos
46
Too late for the party
In summer 1971, three young guys went looking for the last traces of authentic steam in the East
Kevin P. Keefe
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4:26 a.m.
After four hours of driving through darkness, a colorful palette of summer hues greets a Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern train's crew
Andy Cummings
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Not your great-grandpa's Santa Fe
A dad recreates a Santa Fe passenger trip he took with his grandpa in 1962
John Ross Hart
8 Fast-growing Watco
17 Paint that diesel
18 Confidential reporting on close calls
24 CSX's Cumberland shop 36 Map: Boston commuters 38 Crazy cargoes
46 Searching for steam in
the summer of '71
NEWS
8 News & Photos 10 Don Phillips
14 City Rail
15 Fred W. Frailey 16 Locomotive
18 Technology
20 Passenger
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
5 Railway Post Office
60 Trackside
61 Products
62 Preservation
64 Ask TRAINS
69 Gallery
ON THE COVER CSX GP38-2 No. 2699 receives attention from workers at CSX's Cumberland Locomotive Shop in Cumberland, Md., on May 7, 2009. Photo by Doug Koontz
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