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From the Editor

Celebrating a century • Illinois Railway Museum hosts event for EMD’s 100th anniversary

NEWS PHOTOS

Presidential board offers contract plan • Labor proposal includes 22% raise over five years

Safety agency calls for Canada to develop train control system • Additional crew training also recommended in report on collision of two CN trains in January 2019

NEWS BRIEFS • Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern revive some hump operations

The power of numbers • A familiar road number unleashes a flood of memories

The Great Big Rollin’ Railroad • What will become of Union Pacific?

CATCH A PLANE TO SEE A TRAIN • With low-cost airfares to nearly anywhere in the world, flying became the rail enthusiast’s mode du jour

DAVID P. MORGAN, AIRLINE FAN

Dinosaurs of the Iron Range • CN’s six-axle GE standard-cab locomotives rule the former DM&IR

A FAMILY affair • Gulf Coast short line Mississippi Export Railroad celebrates a century in the hands of the Luce family

Fill’er up, please, and check under the hood • BNSF Railway ES44AC No. 6157 leads a 135-car coal train into Mississippi Export Railroad’s fueling facility at Carter Yard, north of Mississippi Power’s Plant Daniel, on June 29, 2022. Once spotted, MSE car inspector Tyrone Scarbrough refuels BNSF Railway AC4400CW No. 5680, the distributed power unit on the coal train, and completes the 1,000-mile inspection. Next: A 12-hour unloading cycle at Plant Daniel.

Came for the wood, stayed for the railroad

PRACTICALLY INEXHAUSTIBLE • CP’s Fording River Subdivision is a conveyor belt for B.C.’s East Kootenay Coalfields

FORDING RIVER SUB TRAIN-WATCHING TIPS

COAL MOUNTAIN • Corbin, site of early mine, is named for American railway builder

Still soldiering on • Trains 2022 Photo Contest Winners

Remaining Ted Rose paintings to be exhibited, sold • Family announces event for Thanksgiving weekend 2022

Hot spot: Trinidad Loop, Wash. • BNSF Railway’s winding way to Seattle

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In the December issue