Trains of the 1940s
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After giving their all during World War II, the railroads looked ahead to a bright future of diesels and streamliners
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Four weeks after Pearl Harbor, railroads are doing vital war work in moving men and materiel to the Pacific Coast
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Giant 4-8-8-4s have gone to work hauling freight across Wyoming and Utah
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Great railroad landmarks were prime targets in a daring Nazi sabotage plot conceived by the Fuehrer himself
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Was it as bad as the newspaper columnists pictured it? It depends upon what train you rode and when you rode it
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Diesels and line improvements help handle a 175-percent increase in freight traffic on a vital route to the West Coast
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A Jack Benny radio gag was just a collection of L.A.-area place names — or was it?
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CB&Q’s Vista Dome car and GM’s Astra Liner train are forerunners of radically different designs for postwar trains
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Spend an hour at Chicago’s Englewood Union Station, where trains of four railroads keep the tracks busy
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Troop sleepers on Donner, New Haven steam and diesel, interurbans in color, early postwar streamliners, draftees in Penn Station, prewar City of L.A., CB&Q on the SP, and more
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A tower on NYC’s Electric Division routes passengers to Grand Central and freight down the West Side Line
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30,000 miles of rail travel played an important part in the surprise re-election of the 33rd President
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Sampling the Skytop lounge and other features of the Mil- waukee Road’s fine new trans- continental streamliner
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. . . is in full swing. In 1949 the diesel bandwagon keeps rolling along, but some of its gilt paint is peeling off