Locomotive 2020
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20/20 the age of change, 20 things that changed the motive power scene in the first 20 years of the 21st century
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Our annual census of the Big Six fleets expanded to include a comparative look at the year 2000 and now, in 2020
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Twenty years of tractive force: Confessions of a middle-aged locomotive report. Revisiting Trains magazine’s 20th annual motive power survey, first published in November 1968.
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A timeline tracing the motive power scene through the first 20 years fo the 21st century
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More than a month of Septembers had passed since I first visited West Crookton so much of my life had changed, West Crookton had not.
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Two decades of changing times and changing colors on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision: 2000-2020
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The rise of A.C. traction, from its heavy-haul beginnings in the
early 1990s to complete domination of the motive power scene by the mid-2000s made No. 1 on Michael Iden’s “Age of Change” ranking of gamechangers in the first 20 years of this century. A look back at the dawn of the A.C. traction revolution, first published in Trains in November 1998.
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Displaced from Class I roads, EMD SD50s and SD60s repower short lines and regionals
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Wabtec/GE’s Building 60 in Erie, Pa., has played a critical role in locomotive technology and success for more than a century.
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A look at the remarkably diverse locomotive fleet of the New York & Atlantic Railway
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Canadian Pacific’s SD70ACU revival gives new life to old SD90MACs and honors tradition and history
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A July 1970 encounter with Chicago & North Western GP7 1518 in Milwaukee, Wis., takes on new significance years later.
Also in this issue:
Editor’s Notebook, Page 6
On the Record, Page 8