RAILROAD HISTORY

NO. 191 -- FALL-WINTER 2004
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160 pages, more than 120 color and B&W photos

INSIDE STORY OF THE DOME

By Ric Morgan
From the General Motors archives, how the dome
car came to be


CUBA AND RAILROADS
PART 2: CUBAN ORE FOR AMERICAN RAILS

By Mark Reutter
Iron ore mines in Cuba were integral to a steel
railmaking empire in the United States

  • ROLLING RAIL AT SPARROWS POINT

MAINLINE DIESELS AND ELECTRICS
BEFORE AND AFTER CASTRO
By P. Allen Copeland
A roster of eclectic and hard-to-trace power

FIFTY YEARS TOO SOON
By Matthew Hiner
When a feisty Ohio interurban cut coal rates, the big
railroads made a beeline to Washington

RAILROAD SOLDIERS
WAR AND RAILROADS

By Mark Reutter
A thumbnail history of U.S. Military Railways

FROM NORMANDY TO THE RHINE
By Joseph W. Weeks
Memoirs of an advance ROB lineman

FIGHTING ALLIGATORS AND MUD
By Mark Reutter and Louis R. Saillard
The Claiborne-Polk was a wreck of a railroad-
intentionally so


THE BRIDGE THAT NEVER WAS

By W. L. Gwyer
But the death toll from building Japan's military
railroad between Burma and Siam was all too real


PLUS OUR REGULAR COLUMNS AND REVIEWS, INCLUDING:
  • EDITOR'S SEATBOX
  • BOOK DIVISION
  • SHORT TAKES
  • END MARKER

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