Trains – September 2019

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C&O 1309update
p. 52
Big Boy meets
Ask TRAINS p. 54

First look at Amtrak’s new Northeast Corridor trains p. 42
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Consolidations, do-it-all steam power p. 20

(^) UP’s
forgotten
Beaumont Hill p. 34
PLUS
Your 737 rode therails first
p. 28
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