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October 2015 Issue Preview
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A great preview of the October Trains magazine. I love the steam engine powered trains. I am really looking forward to reading about them. When I was a kid in the 1950’s I got to see lots of K-4 Pacific’s on the Pennsylvania R.R. on the New York and Long Branch Railroad in my home town in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. My grandfather worked for the NY and LBRR for 35 years at the BAY HEAD JCT. where he serviced Pennsy and Jersey Central trains at the turn around Loop at Bay Head Jct. My Uncle Ed also worked there for 35 years.
I really am looking forward to the October Trains issue with the steam trains story. As a kid I used to watch Pennsylvania K-4 Pacific engines pull commuter trains at the Railway station on the New York and Long Branch Railroad tracks in Pt. Pleasant Beach, N.J. and at the Bay Head Jct. where my grandfather and Uncle Ed worked service NY and LBRR trains for the Pennsy and the Jersey Central lines.
When I was a kid in the 1950’s I used to watch Pennsylvania RR K-4 Pacific engines pull commuter trains on the New York and Long Branch RR tracks as well as the Jersey Central Line diesel trains at the Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ Railway station in my home town and at the Bay Head Jct. Loop where the trains turned around to head back to NY and Jersey City and to the financial district in lower Manhattan. I am excited to see the steam train story in the upcoming October issue of Trains magazine.
A truly awesome sight ,I would love to have a few on my garden rail road
Trains is always fun to read, follow up stories would be nice.
Rode a fan trip behind #830 to Bayhead Jct. NJ in the 50,s-also i believe #612 was used also,a K4sa.
Train went by too fast. Could not see lead! Anyway love your videos!!
The feature about Vale seems to be a nice one, and it’s not the only brazillian RR with an [North]‘american’ flavour, others such as MRS, ALL or VLi (this last one is a Vale subsidiary) also have the same influence. And that ‘influence’ is so strong that EMD and GE built factories there to supply the market with brand new engines. But Vale is also a multicontinental operation (actually the railroad is property of a mining conglomerate), since it operates some mining r RRs in Mozambique (they even took some GT22CUs from Brazil to haul trains there)
Always ready and waiting for my new issue of Trains ! Great reading, super photography. How about an article on railroads transporting harvested products like a follow up on the Florida sugar cane trains or the Dominican one. Are there other produce harvested in this way ?
Interesting to see the UP Salt Lake City Olympic Torch Relay engine way across the country in North Carolina! I was able to catch it here on the West Coast, in downtown Kent, WA., south of Seattle, on a late fall afternoon about a year & a half ago. It was in the middle of a 3 pack of engines and I had no idea what it was until I checked my photos. I love the paint on that one. Enjoy your videos.
Get the ads out of the way!!!
For over 100 years National Geographic magazine has used a yellow border. Trains has removed the trade-mark red and white logo and slogan “THE Magazine of Railroading” off the cover. You can never have too much of a good thing. Return to the roots of the magazine that A.C. Kalmbach founded in 1940 and restore the logo and slogan and publish no less than 100 pages each month and I’ll subscribe again when this becomes reality. Yes, I’ll gladly pay the adjusted price for a 100 page monthly!
The cover of October’s issue with the face of the Pennsy steam locomotive on a white background takes me back when I first discovered Trains at the Tampa Union Station newsstand in 1959 and the All Steam issue was an annual treat. Each year began in November too like ACK intended!. The new Kalmbachers have even changed that by adding two issues to a volume some years ago to start the volume year in January. What a bummer! Trains doesn’t look like anything like itself from the good old days with action packed articals, great photoraphy, and all of this for 50 cents! Of course we had ACK, DPM, and lovely Rosemary Entringer, turning out a true labor of love which went further than just top line profit…
Bring back Trains Illustrated too for goodness sakes!!!