June 2021
The June 2021 issue of Trains Magazine.

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In this Issue

Lost elements of operation and management have left a void as passenger carrier completes 50 years

Union Pacific’s famed Coast Line should still be on everybody’s bucket list

The culmination of politics, personalities, and financial hardships forged today’s passenger railroad

Look inside a modern BNSF manifest to see what it carries

Amtrak at 50
In every issue
News p. 4
One railroad, three countries; Amtrak asks STB to intervene on Gulf Coast
Brian Solomon p. 10
Reading about the Reading
Bill Stephens p. 11
Y’all aboard?
Preservation p. 44
Trains’ 2021-22 Preservation Partnership: Nashville Steam’s 4-8-4 No. 576
Train-Watching p. 46
Short line: Indiana Eastern
Ask Trains p. 48
Locomotive headlights; narrow gauge steam engine deliveries