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Contents: Get ’em while they’re here (Chicago & North Western diesels on the old B&O offer a simple lesson: don’t put off photographing what may be gone tomorrow.), Atlanta! Railroad capital of the South (Norfolk Southern and CSX are hustling to keep up with traffic growth in this busy railroad hub.), Railroad People: Franklin M. Garrett (No one knows Atlanta’s railroads like this talented archivest, journalist, author and railfan.), The fight over Freight Cars (Railroads large and small have drawn battle lines over the issue of car-hire deprescription.), The Moffat Coal Road: Conduit for Colorado Coal (The unfinished product of a rail-barons bold vision still makes for dramatic railroading along Southern Pacific’s old Rio Grande.), The Lonely Life of a Drawbridge Operator (On the Harry S. Truman Bridge in Kansas City, young CP Rail System employes pay their dues.), True Grit (In Minnesota, LTV Steel’s F9 diesels tough it out on the Iron Range in their old Erie Mining garb.), The Miracle of March 7, 1959 (With steam gone on the SP, a teenage rail fan makes a startling discovery at Sacramento: a live 2-8-0!), Trains Hot Spots: Newtonville, Ontario (A rural site between Toronto and Montreal offers a variety of CP Rail, Canadian National and VIA trains.), Readers Platform: SP Minus D&RGW makes sense (Rio Grande and its parent railroad have too little in common.) Departments – Editorial, Railway Post Office, Potomac Pundit, Railroad News, Arrivals & Departures, Railroad News Photos, ABC’s of Railroading, Reviews, New Products, Schedules, Observations, Classified Advertising, Photo Finish
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Condition: Very Good