Classic Trains – September 2019

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SPECIAL 36-PAGE COVER STORY

14 1944: Steam’s Last Great Year

KEVIN P. KEEFE

75 years ago, as rail traffic hit its World War II peak, more than 350

steam locomotives took to the rails of two dozen major railroads,

including Santa Fe, Nickel Plate Road, B&O, Southern Pacific,

Chesapeake & Ohio, CN and CP, Pennsylvania, and Union Pacific

Departments

4 Welcome Steam’s last great year

5 Head End A potpourri of railroad history,

then and now

8 Fast Mail Letters from readers on

our Summer 2019 issue

11 True Color FTs for Santa Fe’s Fast Mail

12 Mileposts Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe on

photographer John Bjorklund

78 The Way It Was Tales from railfans

and railroaders

84 Car Stop Cincinnati’s adaptable overhead

86 Classics Today Three war babies still in steam

91 Bumping Post Gateway to the Great Salt Lake

50 Mystery at Barberton
DAN OLAH
Persistent research pays off to
identify peculiar photos of an
incident on the Erie

54 Ingles Color Classics
J. DAVID INGLES
Alcos in Dairyland: a week-
long 1964 odyssey concludes
in northeastern Wisconsin

62 What’s in a

Photograph?

JERRY A. PINKEPANK

Clinchfield’s tunnel at

Spartanburg, S.C.

(^64) Archive Treasures
SCOTT LOTHES
Northwestern exposure: John
Bjorklund enjoyed shooting
Kodachrome around Cascadia
in the 1970s
72 Best of Everything
CHRIS BURGER
A territory of my own: A
stint at NYC headquarters
in New York is followed by a
trainmaster post in central
Pennsylvania
On our cover
Baltimore & Ohio EM-
2-8-8-4 No. 7609 rests
between assignments at
Painesville, Ohio, in 1956.
Jim Shaughnessy
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