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Trains Magazine 2016 September Controlling the corridor BNSF Transcom wreck Utah
Trains Vol 76 No 9 September 2016
Table of Contents
FEATURES
COVER STORY
38 Controlling the Corridor
How Amtrak keeps trains where they need to be
Al DiCenso
22 Railroading for 60 years
Hired out on the Virginian in 1956, Pete Hypes has no plans to retire
Chase Gunnoe
26 Smoke plumes & mushroom clouds Uncle Sam brought one railfan to see the narrow gauge late in its life
Roger Cook
28 South Dakota success
Facing a loss of vital rail service, the state government finds a solution
Jerry Huddleston
36 Marking the moment
Burlington Northern F45s fill in on the Utah Railway over Soldier Summit in the mid-'80s
David Baer
44 Map of the Month: Routes of the Freedom Trains
Follow the complex paths of the train and its successor Bill Metzger
46 Freedom Train: 40 years later
Memories of a once-in-a lifetime tour - behind steam S.R. Bush and David C. Lester
54 OS, A Cabin
A photo inspires a painting of a C&O passenger train in Alleghany, Va.
Ron Flanary
56 In My Own Words: Last chance to ride A freight agent takes in a cab ride on the Ohio Central David Kelsch
ON THE COVER Northbound Amtrak AEM-7 No. 947 crosses the Susquehanna River Bridge in Perryville, Md., at sunset on Nov. 13, 2011. Photo by Mitch Goldman
8 BNSF's Transcon wreck
18 Hearing trouble on track
22 Tales from 60 years
28 How South Dakota got into the business
36 Utah and those diesels
38 Northeast Corridor
44 Map: Nationwide routes of the Freedom Train
46 Freedom Train memories
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