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Trains Magazine Special Issue Locomotive Annual 2011
Trains Magazine Special Issue Locomotive 2011
106 Pages
Trains Special Issue Locomotive 2011, The Magazine of Motive Power No.6 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS
8 EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK
10 POWER POINTS Kathi Kube
12 2011 MOTIVE POWER REVIEW Railroading on the rebound. New orders on the books, locomotive rebuilds are back in vogue, and dual-powers debut.
Sean Graham-White
28 NEW POWER PROFILE
GE Transportation's new PowerHaul Series PH37ACmi gives the Erie builder its first significant presence in England, and establishes a beachhead for a move on the lucrative European market.
Greg McDonnell
30 GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Britain's Freightliner puts the power in GE's PowerHaul PH37ACmi to the test. Greg McDonnell
32 THOROUGHBREDS!
Norfolk Southern's new SD7OACes hit the road.
Greg McDonnell
36 THE BIG SHOW: ROUTE 66 RAILROADING
BNSF's Needles Sub: 167 twisting, curving, mountain-climbing miles of railroading in a land of extremes.
Greg McDonnell and David Style
44 INDIANA HARBOR BELT
A Chicagoland hauler in transition.
Ryan Schoenfeldt and Sayre C. Kos
48 AMERICANS IN ARGENTINA Alcos, EMDs, and GEs work in Buenos Aires, an operating museum for vintage diesels ... but not for too much longer.
Keith Fender
54 BLACK AND BLUE RIDGE
Norfolk Southern fights gravity in western North Carolina, a land of pusher crews and retainers, flange oilers and tunnels, hairpin turns and legendary grades. Nicholas D'Amato
CONTENTS
62 JERRY JACOBSON'S DIESELS Players in one of the greatest modern shortline success stories ever written find fitting retirement in an Ohio roundhouse.
Steve Gerbracht
66 BUILDING AMERICA'S NEWEST LOCOMOTIVES
Bombardier builds North America's newest passenger locomotives at the famed Henschel locomotive works in Kassel, Germany.
Greg McDonnell
69 HUSTLE AND FLOW IN THE GARDEN STATE
How do you keep 783 trains a day on time? NJ Transit makes it look easy.
Matt Van Hauem
80 SHUTTIN' DETROIT DOWN M. Ross Valentine
82 OLD, GOLD, AND BLUE
Years after the Canadian Pacific takeover, Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern's six-axle fleet rolls on. Steve Glischinski
88 PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER SAFETY CAB COMEBACK
Safety cab locomotives return to P&W, the first U.S. road to embrace the design decades ago. Scott A. Hartley
90 ONE-THIRD OF A KIND
If locomotive frames could talk, EMD 5354-10 would have tales to tell.
Ted Benson
92 WORKING CLASS HEROES
Look back at NJ Transit's gone-but-notforgotten U34CH fleet.
Bruce Kelly
98 DELAWARE ALCOS
Alco 251s power the Delaware Coastline Railroad.
Steve Smedley
100 LAST CALL
Union Pacific's SW1500s exit Oregon.
Scott Lothes and Kyle Weismann-Yee
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