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Contents: Manifest Destiny (Coal and containers get the glory. Chemical traffic pays the freight – and may just save loose-car railroading) Features – The Essential Steinheimer (What’s your favorite Richard Steinheimer photograph? We asked 10 of his friends to share the images that most inspired them – photographs that capture Steinheimer’s vision of railroading); Map Of The Month: Burlington Route (“Everywhere West” proclaimed the proud slogan of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. Just how far west Burlington reached can be seen in this map charting a century of expansion); Rough Ride For VIA’s Renaissance Fleet (Readying Canada’s new intercity passenger cars for service hasn’t been easy. But with a lean equipment market and a ridership boom, VIA’s future is riding on the Renaissance); My Promotion To Trainmaster (‘You’d be crazy to work for the railroad”, friends often told me. But on the Burlington Northern, an army of psychogists was hired specifically to weed the crazies out) News – Railroad News & Photos; Don Phillips (Federal security plans prompt harsh words…like “stupidity”); Mark W. Hemphill (A single load of lumber flaps its wings, and a hurricane ensues); Locomotives (Class I candid camera: Video recorders on BNSF and NS engines); Passenger (The great North American passenger-train smokeout); City Rail (Construction contract dispute at St. Louis MetroLink) Departments – From The Editor; Railway Post Office; Gallery; Railroad Reading; Ask TRAINS; Preservation; New Products; 40 Years Ago In TRAINS
Issue: November 2004
Condition: Very Good