June 2021
The June 2021 issue of Trains Magazine.
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In this Issue
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Lost elements of operation and management have left a void as passenger carrier completes 50 years
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Union Pacific’s famed Coast Line should still be on everybody’s bucket list
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The culmination of politics, personalities, and financial hardships forged today’s passenger railroad
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Look inside a modern BNSF manifest to see what it carries
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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