TRAINS April 2004

Special issue: Mountain Railroads
Around, through, or over: the railroad geography of the United States and Canada. Ten major problems, 42 solutions.


The mosts
The biggest, the baddest, the worst: 10 grades that defined mountain railroading.


Big engines for big grades
Eight definitive locomotives: a century of inspirations, experimentation, success, and a few blind alleys.


Getting them up the grade
To get to the top of the mountain, you must defy gravity. The Norfolk & Western tried every way imaginable.


Building the mountain railroad
Canadian Pacific versus Canadian Northern in British Columbia. What a difference 30 years makes!


Old men of the mountain
What was life like at the last pusher station on Canadian Pacific? Well, it was the best job on the railway.


Getting them down the grade
To get down the mountain, you must obey gravity. Do it wrong at your own peril!


The top 30
Tonnage over the mountains: 2002 vs. 1972

Plus expert analysis covering every aspect of railroading.


Railroad News & Photos BNSF to double-track gaps in Transcon; Good news/bad news for DM&E


Don Phillips: Newsman in transition, or 'Why I left the Post'


Larry Kaufman: Booming grain business has small shippers seeing red


Locomotives: Its Alcos wearing out, Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern goes all-EMD


Passenger Rail: Rolling popsicles: Amtrak reels under an unrelenting harsh winter


City Rail: St. Louis Metrolink project hitting stride; Cheers, jeers and dented rears as Houston Metro survives first month of rail service


Preservation: Rail, military history converge in Georgia as NS sells former CofG shop complex, including historic U.S. battlefields