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Trains

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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