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RAILROAD HISTORY
NO. 190 -- SPRING-SUMMER 2004 |
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160
pages, more than 120 color and B&W photos
THE CURVE ACROSS 150 YEARS
By Dan Cupper
Horseshoe Curve exerts
staying power as an engineering feat and train-watching
paradise.
(Photo top left: F3 helpers on the
Curve, June 5, 1949)
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introduction (PDF FILE)
CUBA AND RAILROADS–SPECIAL
REPORT
PART
1: MAIN LINES, 1837-2003
By Luis
V. Dominguez and Manuel Diaz Ceballos
From the dawn
of the steam age to the present, railroads have exerted
a huge impact on Cuba.
(Middle photo: Consolidated
Cuba Railroads logo, 1936)
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introduction (PDF FILE)
- LOCOMOTIVES OF UNITED RAILWAYS OF HAVANA, JUNE 1930
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OH, TO BE A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER
By John H. White, Jr.
More about eagle-eyes
famous, infamous, and forgotten:
our Part 2 conclusion.
See excerpt (PDF FILE)
PRINT & IMAGE: O. WINSTON
LINK
By Tony Reevy
The photographer
was a largely forgotten figure until
his discovery
by the art world.
(Bottom photo: N&W crew,
by O. Winston Link)
See
photos and excerpt (PDF FILE)
AFTERWORD: HOW DID HE DO IT?
By Thomas H. Garver
Link’s best known photo was not the first published image of the scene. See photo and excerpt (PDF FILE)
FIRST PERSON: REQUIEM
FOR A RUNAWAY
By Drake Hokanson
In search of the remains of a Mallet that disappeared
off Rollins Pass in 1924.
Photo
and excerpt (PDF FILE)
MORE ABOUT MOFFAT'S MALLETS
Including a roster.
PLUS OUR REGULAR COLUMNS AND REVIEWS, INCLUDING:
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EDITOR'S SEATBOX
Read introduction by Mark Reutter (PDF FILE) - SHORT TAKES
Read "Muzzled Lion" (PDF FILE) - END MARKER
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Railroad
History is issued by The Railway & Locomotive Historical
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Published since 1921.
© 2006 Railway & Locomotive Historical Society