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Special 36 – Page Cover Story
1944: Steam’s Last Great Year
Kevin P. Keefe
75 years ago, as rail traffic hit its World War II peak, more than 350 steam locomotives took to the rails of two dozen major railroads, including Santa De, Nickle Plate Road, B&O, Southern Pacific, Chesapeake & Ohio, CN and CP, Pennsylvania, and Union Pacific.
Mystery at Barberton
Dan Olah
Persistent research pays off to identify peculiar photos of an incident on the Erie.
Ingles Color Classics
J. David Ingles
Alco in Dairyland: a week-long 1964 odyssey concludes in northern Wisconsin.
What’s in a Photograph
Jerry A. Pinkepank
Clinchfield’s tunnel at Spartanburg, S.C
Archive Treasures
Scott Lothes
Northwestern exposure: John Bjorklund enjoyed shooting Kodachrome around Cascadia in the 1970s.
Best of Everything
Chris Burger
A territory of my own: A stint at NYC headquarters in New York is followed by a trainmaster post in central Pennsylvania.