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Vintage Rails #7 1997 Spring Chicago Great Interurbans Creative Company photogra
Vintage Rails 1997 Spring No 7
8 Rare Pleasures
BY RICHARD STEINHEIMER
Richard Steinheimer looks at railroading's rich past.
48 Samuel Insull's Chicago Interurbans
BY WILLIAM D. MIDDLETON
Part one of the photo story covers the North Shore Line: Route of the Electroliners.
Streamlined Survivors, page 48.
49 Chicago's Transit Posters
Innovative, artistic travel posters attract international attention.
52 Norfolk & Western's Loneliest Junction
BY ED KING
It was well worth it for those who made the trek to Walton Tower. Strasburg Rail Road No. 475, page 59.
62 Railroad Company Photography
BY JOHN GRUBER
Railroads produce a staggering array of advertising, technical, documentary, and art photographs.
74 Blue Ridge Railroading in the 1960s
BY JEREMY F. PLANT
Charlottesville offers a final glimpse of the great tradition of passenger railroading alongside the newest in freight motive power.
82 Lionel "Wish Books," Then and Now
BY ALLAN W. MILLER
Lavishly illustrated catalogs are highly regarded and carefully preserved.
7 Operator's Desk
Company photographers have documented the greatest years of the railroad industry.
10 Letters to the Editor
Issue No. 6, an Extraordinary Magazine, Railroad China, Fan Mail, and Hagerstown Pusher.
18 A Postscript
Thomas Edwards Jr., 1918-1996, by Doug Riddell.
20 Readers Recall
Memories of making kindling wood for the caboose stove, a train ride to remember, a turtle, and Tuolumne.
36 Time-Tables: 1964
Northern Pacific's centennial, mergers, push-pull, and fast freights.
92 Executive Suite
Robert G. Lewis talks about mileage and RAILWAY AGE.
98 Unforgettable Railroad Days
Robert A. Janz writes: "Do This Instead."
105 Railroad Collectibles
Ralph D. Pierce and the first coffee table books.
108 Book Marks
James D. Porterfield and the fiction of Frank Spearman.
109 Vintage Marketplace
Brian Jennison comments on trails, regional rails.
114 Swap Meet
Classified advertisers list bargains.
122 Terminal Ad
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy introduces its new Denver Zephyr.
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