July 2020

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Railroad Vision 2020: High speed reality check

By Bob Johnston

What does the U.S. deserve? What can it achieve?

After Anderson, Amtrak seeks stability

By Dan Zukowski and Rush Loving Jr.

New CEO William J. Flynn faces fundamental issues about passenger railroad's role

Fortuity in Montana

By Brian Solomon

An encounter with a pair of 40-year-old Northern Pacific F units, back on home rails

5 ways Nevada Northern highballs history

By Jim Wrinn

How the amazingly good standard gauge East Broad Top of the west makes its railroad great

Battling gravity in Bealville

By Jim Wrinn

A Union Pacific freight is a rolling example of railroad engineering vs. geography

Of stack trains and semaphores

By Brian Solomon

Conrail's former Erie double-track route through New York's bucolic Canisteo Valley: steeped in history, laced with contradictions, carrier of mystery

In My Own Words: Where's the engineer?

By Ron Baile

Amateur railroading in the 1980s

Gallery

By Doug Harrop

NEWS

News

Sonia Bot and John Orr
- Rail experts foresee the next development of Precision Scheduled Railroading
Rail could find opportunities in post-virus economy
- UP, CSX CEOs foresee traffic from remade supply chain

Locomotive

Coronavirus in the cab?
- Railroads step up cleaning in face of pandemic

Passenger

Coronavirus contraction
- Amtrak shrinks consists to keep routes intact as riders stay home

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From the Editor

Changing of the guard at Amtrak | Goodbye Richard Anderson, hello Patrick Flynn. Where will you drive this train next?

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Preservation

One sweet steam restoration | U.S. Sugar brings back a veteran cane hauler in south-central Florida

Train-Watching

Hot spot: Showtime in Burbank | Continuous commuter action in Southern California

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General Electric and Alco, locomotive m.u. connections

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