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Trains Magazine 2012 October Conrail MoPac tonnage 1956 map Murphy Branch
Trains 2012 October
20 Conrail lives!
How it serves two masters in three big cities, while staying mostly out of sight Fred W. Frailey
32
The ghosts of railroading
Check out a few relics of railroads that the Grim Reaper missed along the Pacific Northwest landscape
Alexander B. Craghead
38
Map of the Month: Missouri Pacific tons and facilities, 1956
See how traffic moved across MP's 11,000-mile system Matt Van Hattem and
Bill Metzger
40
The last logger, eh?
One Canadian short line still hauls logs through the lush mountains and rainforests of British Columbia's Vancouver Island
Leo de Groot
48
That darn rabbit
On Norfolk Southern's mountainous Murphy Branch, train crews never know what may pop out of the underbrush
Jim Wrinn
50
Night on Ballard Terminal
A short line prowls a neighborhood's streets with a 72-year-old SW1
Robert W. Scott
54
When the boss needs something to eat
On the SP, a hi-rail and boxes of chicken replaced an office car and a lavish dinner Michael E. McGinley
NEWS
6 News & Photos 9 Don Phillips
13 Fred W. Frailey
14 Locomotive
16 Technology
18 Passenger
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor
5 Railway Post Office 57 Preservation
62 Ask TRAINS
64 Trackside
65 Products
70 Gallery
20 Conrail: the railroad
with two masters
32 Railroading's ghosts
38 Map: MoPac tonnage
in 1956
40 Last Canadian logger lives
48 Murphy Branch leap of faith
50 SW1 prowls Seattle
streets at night
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