TRAINS February 2002

Canadian Pacific's 71-year-old "Empress" 4-6-4 makes a grand, flawless debut after her three-year, $2 million-plus restoration. This could be the best public-relations money CP president Rob Ritchie has ever spent. ;

Is the Western rail map about to change - again? Here+s what UP+s Dick Davidson, BNSF+s Matt Rose, and KCS+s Mike Haverty are thinking.

Electric yields to diesel at Canada's largest mining complex. An inside look at INCO, North America's largest nickel mine, where electric locomotives labored in grimy obscurity until diesels arrived. ;

Map of the month: Eastern trunk line profiles ;New York to Chicago main-line profiles in 1927, comparing the Erie, New York Central, Pennsy, and Baltimore & Ohio.