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Contents: U.S. Railroader In Iraq (Rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air, big money…and that’s just the drive to work! The inside story from the Mideast) Features – Devil’s Road (Think a Colorado narrow-gauge lines on steroids: Ecuador’s Guayaquil & Quuito); Ahead Of Our Time On The Baltimore & Ohio (How our effort to dispatch trains by radio in 1965 – and eliminate 2,600 telegrapher’s jobs – came to nothing); Stranger Than Fiction (How does a backhoe climb onto a gondola? Find out in this incredible movie-like sequence); Railroad Blueprint: Saginaw, Texas, 2004 (Visit this busy Fort Worth crossroads of Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe); Map Of The Month: Union Pacific Trains Per Day (Train volume and tonnages on America’s largest railroad) News – Railroad News & Photos (Can two railroads really work together? Conrail Shared Assets); Don Phillips (Flying, driving – you can have them. I’ll take the train); Larry Kaufman (No leadership from Washington this year: for transportation); Locomotives (EMD’s SD70AC’s in revenue service, more being built); Passenger (Want extreme railroading? Hop aboard an RDC run in Alaska!); City Rail (New York City’s automated subway line) Departments – From The Editor; Railway Post Office; Railroad Reading; Ask TRAINS; Preservation; New Products; 30 Years Ago In TRAINS
Issue: July, 2004
Condition: Very Good