Trains Magazine 2014 August How 18 places got their name BNSF untangles Northern
Trains Vol 74 No 8 August 2014
Table of Contents
44 COVER STORY Why they call it like they do
18 of our favorite railroad place names A TRAINS staff and contributors report
22BNSF'S winter to remember
Why this proud railroad got in trouble, and what's been learned from it
Fred W. Frailey
28 SPUD reborn
St. Paul Union Depot reopens as a transportation hub after being idle for nearly 43 years - and it even has trains!
Steve Glischinski
36 No. 611: The next chapter
Famed Norfolk & Western Class J's journey back to steam begins
Jim Wrinn
38 The last great roundup
Streamliners convene from across the continent at the largest gathering in more than 30 years
Jim Wrinn
54 In My Own Words: Santa Fe all the way
Tales from a railroad public relations veteran
Robert E. Gehrt
ON THE COVER Union Pacific Extra 3764 West at Kelso, Calif., on March 2, 1994. Ron Flanary; inset: Streamlined locomotives at Spencer, N.C., on May 29, 2014. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn
22 BNSF untangles its Northern corridor
28 St. Paul Union Depot reborn
36 Norfolk & Western
No. 611's return
38 Cab unit festival frenzy
44 How 18 railroad places got their names
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