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Trains Magazine 2023 January Amfleet saved Amtrak Transcom Carload service
Trains Magazine 2023 January The Cars that Saved Amtrak
Trains is published monthly. On the cover, In the Mid-1970s, Amtrak made a bet-the-company decision by ordering 492 Amfleet cars. Nearly all remain in service.
COMMENTARY
Why is carload service so erratic? p. 12
An old problem threatens to make a comeback Victor Hand
Remembering the 1960s p.14
From a string of wood-sided boxcars and a drawer of memories spring a 'soleful' discovery
John Roskoski
COVER STORY
The cars that saved Amtrak p.18
How Amfleet became Amtrak's go anywhere, do anything passenger cars John Friedmann
Trouble on the Transcon p.28
Crew shortages create bottlenecks, delay freight on BNSF, CSX, NS, and UP Bill Stephens
Anything for the shot p.38
That's the names of the game when the stakes are high Geoffrey H. Doughty
Gallery p. 52
A collection of favorite winter images from Trains' readers celebrate a dramatic and challenging time of year
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