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Contents: Great Photographers: Bill Middleton (For 50 years, he’s been an “author’s author); Burlington’s ‘Night Crawler’ (Glimpses back in time from the overnight Denver-Billings train); Classics Today: Rail Mail Legacy (At least seven notable CB&Q family RPO cars survive); Missouri Pacific’s “Lemon” Berkshires (I-GN’s 1121-series 2-8-4’s didn’t live up to the Lima A-1 ideal); A Ride On The ‘Hawkeye’ (A 1967 branchline adventure in the cradle of Illinois railroading); The Keokuk Line’s 15 Minutes Of Fame (Its 2-6-0’s gained notoriety in the mid-1950s as Wabash’s last steam); Seaboard’s “West Jax” Shops (Birds-Eye View: A late 1940s look at SAL’s main repair facility); Scientific Streamlining (Functional logic was behind the rakish look of CN’s U-4-a 4-8-4s); Railroad Or Steamship Line? (Seatrain’s ocean-going freight cars foreshadowed the container age); A Half Century Of Difference (Dominguez Junction on Pacific Electric, in 1910 and 1960); Editor’s Page (Seatrain: ahead of its time); Contributors (Meet this issue’s crew); Head End (Items from railroad history, then and now); Fast Mail (Letters from our readers); True Color (The true CPR Canadian, pictured at Banff); Fallen Flags Remembered (Chicago & Illinois Midland); Workin’ On The Railroad (Keeping Santa Fe streamliners cool); The Way It Was (Tales of railfans and railroaders); Car Stop (Light-rail harbingers on the Bay Area’s Key System); Ready Track (Brief reviews of classic-era books and DVD’s); Second Section (Wabash steam lasted beyond the 2-6-0’s); Bumping Post (Contrasts in Reno, Virginia & Truckee meets the SP)
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Condition: Very Good