Trains May 2012

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Your 2012 railroad fun guide to tourist trains and railroad museums

Cover Story: 13 Steam Engines for 2012
By Jim Wrinn
Saturating the year with steam locomotives you'll want to see, we anticipate two more and mourn an Old Reliable friend

Hand-in-Hand
By Jim Wrinn
How innovative partnerships are changing railway preservation. Plus, the seven biggest blunders in saving railroad history

Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
By Shirley Culpin
Six people found a way to breathe life into a locomotive and then a railroad they call the Alberni Pacific

Map of the Month: Southern Before Norfolk Southern and 30 Years Later
By Bill Metzger
The 'Green Light' railroad had more than 40 lines; its main lines serve NS well today

Oil Trains in the Wheat Fields
By Fred Frailey
The bonanza in North Dakota and what it means to railroads

Two Lines, Two Fates in the Alleghenies
By Bill Metzger
Baltimore & Ohio and Western Maryland built parallel mountain railroads in Pennsylvania. Only one survived

The Terror of 304
By Michael Gillespie
A baggageman learns a lesson from a hard-nosed, old-time railroader