Trains July 2020

FeaturesRailroad Vision 2020: High speed reality checkBy Bob JohnstonWhat does the U.S. deserve? What can it achieve?After Anderson, Amtrak seeks stabilityBy Dan Zukowski and Rush Loving Jr.New CEO William J. Flynn faces fundamental issues about passenger railroad's roleFortuity in MontanaBy Brian SolomonAn encounter with a pair of 40-year-old Northern Pacific F units, back on home rails5 ways Nevada Northern highballs historyBy Jim WrinnHow the amazingly good standard gauge East Broad Top of the west makes its railroad greatBattling gravity in BealvilleBy Jim WrinnA Union Pacific freight is a rolling example of railroad engineering vs. geographyOf stack trains and semaphoresBy Brian SolomonConrail's former Erie double-track route through New York's bucolic Canisteo Valley: steeped in history, laced with contradictions, carrier of mysteryIn My Own Words: Where's the engineer?By Ron BaileAmateur railroading in the 1980sGalleryBy Doug Harrop