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ONE WILD RIDE ON BOARD A SNOWPLOW
www.TrainsMag.com • December 2015
p. 48
Deadline
for PTC
looms
p. 6
New
baggage
rules
p. 22
THE magazine of railroading
Trains
to the
roof of
the world
p. 30
BNSF vs. the
elements on
Marias Pass.
PLUS
100% pure cane railroading
p. 24
MAP:
What’s left of the Great Northern
p. 46
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FEATURES
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ON THE
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Railroading in
Avalanche Alley
Men, machines, and
science battle the elements
to keep BNSF Railway’s
Marias Pass route open
Justin Franz
24
100 percent pure
cane railroading
U.S. Sugar operations include
two sweet Florida railroads
Scott A. Hartley
30
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Guilt trip to the
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is a marvel, but at what cost
and to what end?
Albert Tay
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history, from 1940 to today.
Photo by Tom Gildersleeve
46
Map of the Month:
The Great
Northern today
A look at what remains and
what’s been lost from James J.
Hill’s transcontinental route
Bill Metzger
48
When winter comes
Snowplows cannot be far
behind in Southern Ontario
Stephen C. Host
56
In My Own Words:
Snow day at Rez
A rare snowfall in Tacoma,
Wash., made for an interesting
day for a Burlington Northern
train order operator
Jon D. Ruesch
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Eastbound BNSF Railway C44-9W
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Deadline for PTC looms
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New baggage rules
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100 percent pure cane
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30
Trains to the roof of
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38
Railroading in Montana’s
Avalanche Alley
46
Map: What’s left of the
Great Northern
48
One wild ride on board
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A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R
JIM WRINN
A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R
A S S I S TA N T E D I T O R
Don’t forget your origins
I was admiring a BNSF Railway coal train, dropping down
grade near Hyannis, Neb., when I started thinking about
the changing railroad leadership in North America. The
top dogs of just about every major railroad, except this
one, changed recently or are about to change.
Going or gone are the higher-ups who
recall the bad old days of the 1970s when
Penn Central was the largest bankruptcy in
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holders. If they do, they’ll find they will in-
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An eastbound BNSF Railway coal train drops down grade near Hyannis, Neb., in September
2015. Can railroading move forward while maintaining its unique place?
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: Jim Wrinn
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DECEMBER 2015
RAILWAY POST OFFICE
RAILROADS HAVE TO EARN
I enjoyed the September issue with arti-
cles from old friends, Dan Machalaba
[“Railroading’s Biggest Blunders,” pages 46-
57] and Fred W. Frailey’s column [“Rail-
roads Face Life After Coal,” pages 14-15].
However, I fear that something is rotten in
the roundhouse. I detect an undercurrent
of populist fantasy and misplaced anger
aimed at Wall Street. To wit, Dan writes
about a lack of spending and the removal
of extra capacity without regard to “return
on investment,” while Fred writes that Wall
Street only looks at the short term. So, the
inference goes, the railroad problems today
are the fault of Wall Street.
I often argue with the financial commu-
nity for a longer term outlook for railroads,
which have to try to balance imperfect de-
mand planning with capital expenditures
that involve 30-to-50-year asset lives. It’s
time to bury that old false canard that rail-
roads would be great if only they weren’t
held to the standards of any other ongoing
concern. Railroads are hardly under-invest-
ing. In fact, they have been spending close
to 20 percent of their revenues for most of
this decade, and they can continue to spend
those large amounts if owners see that the
returns are justified.
Anthony B. Hatch, New York
A CSX SD70MAC/ES44 lash-up leads a southbound freight over the River Subdivision
at Highland, N.Y., viewed from the Walkway Over the Hudson.
Scot t A. Har tley
HUDSON RIVER HOT SPOT
I enjoyed reading “George Hamlin’s
Top 10 Hot Spots” [pages 64-65, Octo-
ber] and would like to add the Walkway
Over the Hudson to the Hudson River
Valley, N.Y., location.
Constructed on top of the former New
Haven Railroad’s Poughkeepsie-Highland
bridge, the Walkway Over the Hudson is
one of the best train-watching sites in that
area. More than 200 feet above the Hud-
son River, the bridge offers unobstructed
views of the CSX Transportation line to
the west and Amtrak
and commuter rail-
road Metro-North to
the east. Any railfan
Best
steam
visiting the Hudson
images
Valley needs to treat
himself to this spot.
Benjamin W. Manfull
East Haddam, Conn.
MAP:
Washington, DC, then and now
p. 14
p. 62
p. 40
Can
customers
just get
their cars?
Mallet
on the
mend
From our
archives
p. 42
PLUS
Photo
contest
winners
p. 30
Pennsy 4-6-2
steams in 1957.
Rock Island
recollections
p. 52
Brazil with an American twist
p. 22
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