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Contents: Six-Coupled Gets The Job Done (Big enough to draw visitors, yet small enough to earn its keep, it’s the right-sized engine for tourist and musuem lines) Features – Adirondack Mission (Volunteers with big goals and little money have turned a moribund railroad into a busy tourist line); Those Who Can, Teach (As railroading becomes more technically demanding, the industry searches for ways to attract and train good talent); Map Of The Month: Makeup Of The MoPac (Even in the 1970s, Missouri Pacific boasted five-figure mileage); Railroad Blueprint: Sand Patch, Pennsylvania (The Baltimore & Ohio’s final decade on its most famous mountain grade); Insert: 2005 Guide To Recreational Railroading (Your travel source for tourist times, railroad museums, dinner trains and other rail attractions. Take it with you everywhere) News – Railroad News & Photos (Bush seeks Amtrak reform…or bankruptcy?); Don Phillips (Chicago railfans are terrorists? Give me a break); Mark W. Hemphill (Observations on my career as a railroad writer); Locomotives (Coming to terms with the SD50 and its reputation); Passenger (The Northeast Corridor’s infrastructure is in trouble); City Rail (Agencies weigh costs, benefits of alternate power sources) Departments – From The Editor; Railway Post Office; Railroad Reading; Preservation; Ask Trains; New Products; Gallery; Once Upon A Time In Trains
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Condition: Very Good