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From the Editor
Canadian National makes bid for Kansas City Southern • $33.7 million offer sets off battle with Canadian Pacific over smallest Class I
Long Island Rail Road to test battery EMU
A microcosm of dieselization • Reflecting on the significance and longevity of EMD’s SD40
We need more Dutchtown Southerns • New little railroad may be the future of carload traffic
DARK DAYS FOR CSX’S CV SUB • Where 50 coal trains a day once ran in Kentucky’s Cumberland Valley, now a handful move east of Corbin, Ky.
‘THE OLD RELIABLE’ LAYS STEEL INTO THE CUMBERLANDS
DISAPPEARING RAILROADERS • Spurred by PSR, the third wave of railroad cutbacks wipes out the equivalent of an entire Class I workforce
The railcars that fought a PANDEMIC • In 1918, rolling Red Cross laboratories helped battle the spread of influenza
THE RED CROSS TROLLEY AMBULANCE
SANDSTONE SPECTACULAR • Natural arches, slickrock, and red rock: Union Pacific’s Potash Branch has scenery like no place on earth
East Broad Top rises again • New owners bring legendary Pennsylvania line back to life
Mainline steam outlook for 2021 • After COVID-19 put the brakes on mainline steam in 2020, look for a comeback
Stripe spared in spring storm
Cordele opens railfan platform • South Georgia city sees up to 80 CSX and NS trains daily
Summerail 2021 cancelled
Q Are all of the DPU units subject to the same command from the head end? - Dallas Rennie
Rails to the North Star State
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