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- From: elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Old Trains magazine
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 00:08:54 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- I was looking through a 1957 Trains magazine I have 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?" referring to NYC's new passenger timetable.
- 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
- also ads for Monon and L&N. In the editorial section, they talk 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." It's hard to imagine piggyback was ever experimental. In the
- Railroad News Photos, the Virginian's E33 "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. And Pennsy 2-10-0 had somehow gotten away and crashed through the
- back wall of the Elmira, NY roundhouse. The Photo Section is mostly NKP Berks,
- with the heading "Steam: still going strong." There's also a picture of a Boy
- Boy meeting a Challenger in Wyoming, another view of "Big Alice," and, oh yes,
- one token shot of a B&O F7. The back cover is an ad for N&W's passenger trains.
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- David P. Morgan was still editor, and the magazine's cover price was 50 cents.
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