TRAINS July 2002

Station of the stars - Every day thousands of people pass through Los Angeles Union Station. Is one of them a dangerous killer? A hard-boiled reporter gets the inside — and outside — dish on a building that once saw the comings and goings of Hollywood’s stars and starlets. Today, its role is no less significant, as the West Coast’s premier passenger terminal. Wrong train running? Carload pays the freight, while intermodal gets the green light. Unfair? Not if you want to make money. The yard: Railroading’s hidden half (Part II). Automated hump yards are the best tool railroads have to impose order on the thousands of cars that move across the country every day. But design flaws rob yards of the speed railroads need to have. Here’s what railroads should do to fix them. Jurf Ad Darawish - A real hot spot — in Jordan. Map of the Month: Passenger train decline, 1960-1971 The U.S. lost half its passenger mileage between 1960 and 1971. Then it was halved again.