TRAINS September 2004

Big Boy or Big Mistake?
Did Super Power Steam make it easy for diesels to sweep the field? Which railroads got it right; which got it wrong?

Moonset at Peru
The setting moon and a Union Pacific Overland Route freight aligned ever so briefly in one photographer’s lens.

Railroad Art as it was meant to be
When Mitch Markovitz paints railroad scenes, he communicates the very essence of railroading.

Iraq postscript
An American railroader ponders his experience after working on the war front of railroading.

California today … the nation tomorrow?
How’s this for irony? The state that glorified the freeway is staking its future on passenger trains.

Map of the Month: Iowa abandonments
Once, no point in Iowa was more than 12 miles from a railroad. But deregulation and merger fueled abandonments and spinoffs.

Plus expert analysis covering every aspect of railroading.

Railroad News & Photos: Big steam returns to Midwest high iron this summer, and UP defends its trademarks

Don Phillips: A plea to the next Trains editor: Keep the light burning for railroading’s present and future.

Locomotives: GO Transit looking for new power.

Passenger Rail: The hot passenger train is a dying breed.

City Rail: Maryland light rail opens double-track segment; Caltrain’s Baby Bullet off to wobbly start.

Preservation: East Broad Top works, plans for fall spectacular.