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Contents: Analyzing The Merger Puzzle (How likely is a final round of mega-mergers? Let’s look at the major railroads and assess the potential matches) Features – Steamtown’s Promise (Is the decade-old and federally funded museum’s water sight glass half full or half empty?); Take The Throttle On Mainline Steam (The show in China may be over, but a program in Poland can put you in the driver’s seat in revenue service); Ghost Of Glory (I found the birthplace of America’s railroad capital – and just in the nick of time); Map Of The Month: Northeast Commuter Trains (Every weekday, 3,170 trains of eight commuter railroads hustle people to destinations in the Northeast); Railroad Reading: On The Rocks (Father-son chats help a first-year brakeman through his first derailment) News – Railroad News & Photos (UP on the mend; new twists to CSX’s challenge to DC ban); Don Phillips (The European Union moves freight off trucks onto trains); Locomotives (MK1200Gs: Together again, and under one flag); Passenger (On VIA, a warning slice of railroad history: the open section); City Rail (St. Louis Metro expansion hits yet another snag) Departments – From The Editor; Railway Post Office; Preservation; Ask TRAINS; New Products; Gallery; Once Upon A Time In TRAINS
Issue: July 2005
Condition: Very Good