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- From: elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Old Trains magazine
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:54:39 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema)
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- I was looking through a 1957 Trains magazine I have here recently. It's
- really amazing how much has changed in the railroad scene since then. The
- cover has a picture of the X-plorer train with the cover story being, "How
- Fast is the New York Central?" The ad on the inside front cover is from
- EMD itself, toutting their remanufacture of Inland Steel's SC's into SW900's.
- A few pages on is an ad for the Erie Railroad, "It's the men who make the Erie
- DEPENDABLE!" There are other ads for Monon and L&N. In the editorial
- section, they're talking about Rock Island's new "Convert-A-Frate" piggyback
- cars. The article begins, "If the railroads don't come up with an ideal
- piggyback car, it won't be for lack of trying." These days it's hard to
- imagine piggyback was ever experimental. In the Railroad News Photos, the Virginian's "bricks" were just being
- delivered. CB&Q 4000, "Big Alice the Goon," was running a fan trip for the
- Railroad Club of Chicago. GE had just built its first UD18, the very first
- GE road freight diesel. A Pennsy 2-10-0 had somehow gotten away and crashed
- through the back wall of the Elmira, NY roundhouse.
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