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CHICAGO UNION STATION, THEN AND NOW
www.TrainsMag.com • September 2015
p. 38
PTC
deadline
looms
p. 6
THE magazine of railroading
Watco
expands
in the
West
p. 12
13 BIGGEST BLUNDERS
IN RAILROADING
Sunset
Limited’s
dusk or
dawn?
p. 30
SPSF merger is No. 5; Nos. 9, 10, and 12 will surprise you!
p. 46
SPSF-painted SD45
at Cajon Pass, Calif.
PLUS
Bringing back a narrow gauge legend
p. 22
MAP: Locomotive and car shops
p. 28
Tech: Railroads byte into big data
p. 18
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ON THE
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and faux pas that
shaped the industry
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22
Restoring a legend of Map of the Month:
the American West
Locomotive shops
33 years went into steaming
in 2015
the 1875
Glenbrook
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Chris De Witt and
Adam Michalski
See where new units are built
and firms perform repairs
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Gulf Coast revival?
Ten years after Hurricane
Katrina, the region is poised
to bring back a different
passenger train
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38
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one station
A photographer’s view of
Chicago Union Station
spans 50 years
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58
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A C&NW crew’s problem is a
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ON THE COVER
Santa Fe SD45 No. 5401, in the
proposed Southern Pacific-Santa Fe merger colors, rolls east at
Cajon Pass, Calif., on Sept. 7, 1985.
Photo by Elrond Lawrence
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Chicago Union Station
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Going back in time in Chicago
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May 2015:
Page 53: The number of regional railroads
that succeeded with intermodal before
Indiana Rail Road was incorrect. In addition to
Florida East Coast and Pan Am railways,
Providence & Worcester Railroad has
established credible intermodal operations.
June 2015:
Page 33: The location of the photo is
incorrect in the caption. Amtrak’s
Lake Shore
Limited
heads west at Ohio’s Sandusky Bay
in November 1990.
Page 36: Union Pacific’s track from Odell to
Dwight, Ill., is not the fastest outside of the
Northeast Corridor. There are others,
including an Amtrak line in western Michigan.
Pages 42-43: The location of the two Union
Pacific bridges photo, labeled “7,” was shown
twice on the map. The bridges are between
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Page 56: The service of the M-10001
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