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Trains

Trains’ Tour of Alaska leaves editor awestruck

BNSF, J.B. Hunt aim at trucks with new intermodal offering • Quantum service revives Santa Fe-era name, seeks traffic never captured by rail

Patagonia excursion marred by derailment • Four injured, one seriously, as historic narrow gauge steam train overturns

Wabtec sees hydrogen as fuel of the future • Zero-emission technologies can follow short-term use as substitute for diesel

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Pretty in pink • Wabtec unveils world’s first battery-powered heavy-haul freight locomotive

MBTA aims to eliminate slow orders in 2024 • Track work begins effort to address massive state-of-good-repair backlog

NEWS PHOTOS

NEWS BRIEFS • Voters approve sale of Cincinnati Southern Railway to Norfolk Southern

Railroad investors can be their own worst enemy • Wall Street’s short-term focus is bad for railroads’ long-term health

A PICTURE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

1,000 AND BEYOND • A landmark tree, a landmark issue

A THOUSAND TRAINS A DAY • German bridge across the Rhine is a funnel for passenger traffic

A BRIDGE OF LOVE LOCKS

The most popular 1,000-horsepower locomotives • The 1K mark was an early steppingstone to today’s motive power

1,000 SD70Ms (plus 427 more) • Union Pacific’s record-setting EMD SD70M order

LAKE SHORE LIMITED: A SURVIVOR • Born in 1897, shelved in 1956, the train relaunched in 1975 illustrates passenger highs and lows

PICK UP, DROP OFF, AND CONNECT • Lake Shore of the 1950s handled sleepers to and from a host of cities along, beyond its route

WHEN INVESTMENT WENT AWRY • Equipment, merger, and other choices that railroads would like to forget

Behold the Salish Sea • A vibrant mixture of salt water, fresh water, wildlife, and of course, trains

AN IMPROBABLE MASTERPIECE: THE EADS BRIDGE • Designed by a bridge-building novice, the St. Louis landmark turns 150 years old

WHO WAS JAMES EADS?

New York Central electric locomotives on the move • Historic S1 and T3a moving to Danbury Railway Museum

CSX CEO Hinrichs to chair B&O Museum capital campaign • Museum seeks $30 million to prepare for bicentennial of American railroading

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s new $15 million welcome center • Facility is museum’s new ‘front door,’ includes history exhibits, interactive kiosks, theater, classroom

New Hampshire to sell ‘Flying Yankee’ • Restoration efforts for 1935 Budd trainset have long been in limbo

PRESERVATION BRIEFS • ‘Death Valley Scotty’ engine to be restored; CN donates E9

Many journeys, many photographs • Seeing an industry through iconic images

Dust off the bucket list • 2024 Trains Tour schedule released

In the March issue • Engineering a solution

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