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From the Editor

Trains

CP-KCS decision now rests with regulators • STB wraps up hearing, accepts final filings; decision expected in January

Structural concerns lead to buffer cars for VIA Rail Canada heritage trainsets • Government order requires extensive tests, but cars are called safe for normal use

Metra receives first rebuilt SD70MACH • Remanufactured freight diesel marks return of six-axle power, first with AC traction motors

NEWS PHOTOS

Officials congregate for launch of latest CREATE project • Forest Hill Flyover, 71st Street grade separation will begin untangling 75th Street Corridor bottleneck

Hurricane hammers Florida short line

When daily service just isn’t enough • Amtrak, freight railroads should step up service frequency

Commuter rail anniversary • Looking back 40 and 70 years

Why carload service is erratic • An old problem threatens to make a comeback

ReMeMBeR tHe '60s? • From a string of wooden boxcars to an old drawer of cherished memories sprung a ‘soleful’ discovery

The cars that saved AMTRAK • How Amfleet became Amtrak’s “go anywhere, do anything” passenger cars

AMFLEET TIMELINE

HOW AMFLEET SET STANDARDS

SIX UNIQUE AMFLEET CARS

TROUBLE ON THE TRANSCON • Crew shortages create bottlenecks, delay freight on BNSF, CSX, NS, and UP

ANYTHING for the SHOT • That’s the name of the game when stakes are high

Last Alaska Railroad steam engine reaches restoration milestone • Tender work completed, reattached to engine

Cast Hiawatha emblem stolen from Skytop car • One of two original castings removed from car side

Training firemen on a miniature stoker • Museum restores Duplex training tool to operation

PRESERVATION PHOTOS

Strasburg Rail Road steam engine hits excavator standing on siding • No injuries reported; locomotive is back in service in less than a week

Hot spot: Neenah, Wis. • Access, variety make this a good Midwestern train watching venue

Q What is a transfer caboose? How is it different from a regular caboose?

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