TRAINS July 2004

U.S. railroader in Iraq
Rockets’ red glare, bombs bursting in air, big money … and that’s just the drive to work! The inside story from the Mideast.


Devil’s Road
Think of Colorado narrow-gauge lines on steroids: Ecuador’s Guayaquil & Quito.


Ahead of our time on the Baltimore & Ohio
How our effort to dispatch trains by radio in 1965 — and eliminate 2,600 telegrapher’s jobs — came to nothing.


Stranger than fiction
How does a backhoe climb onto a gondola? Find out in this incredible movie-like sequence!


Railroad Blueprint: Saginaw, Texas, 2004
Visit this busy Fort Worth crossroads of Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe.


Map of the Month: Union Pacific trains per day
Train volume and tonnages on America’s largest railroad.

Plus expert analysis covering every aspect of railroading.


Railroad News & Photos Can two Class Is really work together? Shippers wonder about Conrail Shared Assets, jointly owned by NS and CSX.


Don Phillips: Life, and railroads, are good. But airline travel and highways? Well, you can have them.


Larry Kaufman: ‘Shameful’ fails to describe U.S. transportation funding.


Locomotives: Kansas City Southern tests SD70ACe.


Passenger Rail: Alaska’s extreme railroading: Two passenger trains, but they share little more than the rails.


City Rail: New York City Transit announces plans to switch the L Line to fully automated service in March 2005.


Preservation: Rail labor’s big contribution to preservation: North American Railway Foundation has spent almost $4 million to date.

And get the latest news; stunning new Gallery photos of CSX in Jersey City, N.J. by John Mucha; plus answers to readers’ questions, and 30 years ago in Trains!