Trains April 2009
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40 pages of grain-hauling goodness!Trains' coverage of railroads and grain goes back five decades. In this downloadable PDF we'll take you to Kansas, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest.
Your Next Meal Starts Here
Between amber waves of grain and your breakfast table there is a train of covered hoppers
By Michael W. Blaszak
Elevator Critters
Beneath silos expect to find freaky diesels and wild paint schemes
By Jim Wrinn
Nice Ride!
From boxcars to covered hoppers, here's how grain rides the rails
By Tom Murray
From Fields to Freight
Step inside a grain elevator to see what happens to corn between the farm and the rails
By Howard Ande
Canada's Century
People called the 20th century 'Canada's Century.' See how the wheat boom grew a nation
By Charles W. Bohi and Leslie S. Kozma
Map of the Month: Where the Shuttles Go
See the loading and unloading points for U.S. grain shuttles
By Andy Cummings, Michael W. Blaszak, and Matt Van Hattem
Surviving on Bread Alone
Meet a new short line whose success depends on wheat
By Andy Cummings and David Lustig
Not Your Grandpa's Grain Train
Monstrous 'Shuttle Trains' represent a new way of moving grain, and not everyone's happy
By Paul R. Sando
Seeds of History
Before shuttle trains and jumbo covered hoppers, locals and boxcars did the work
By Don L. Hofsommer
Railroad Reading
Railroaders' Olympics: A game of 'toss the tie plate' goes awry at the Great Salt Lake
By Norman L. Sevy
Gallery
BNSF in Washington; Southwest Chief in New Mexico; Union Pacific in Nebraska; and Metra in Illinois
By Assorted photographers
40 pages of grain-hauling goodness!Trains' coverage of railroads and grain goes back five decades. In this downloadable PDF we'll take you to Kansas, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest.
Your Next Meal Starts Here
Between amber waves of grain and your breakfast table there is a train of covered hoppers
By Michael W. Blaszak
Elevator Critters
Beneath silos expect to find freaky diesels and wild paint schemes
By Jim Wrinn
Nice Ride!
From boxcars to covered hoppers, here's how grain rides the rails
By Tom Murray
From Fields to Freight
Step inside a grain elevator to see what happens to corn between the farm and the rails
By Howard Ande
Canada's Century
People called the 20th century 'Canada's Century.' See how the wheat boom grew a nation
By Charles W. Bohi and Leslie S. Kozma
Map of the Month: Where the Shuttles Go
See the loading and unloading points for U.S. grain shuttles
By Andy Cummings, Michael W. Blaszak, and Matt Van Hattem
Surviving on Bread Alone
Meet a new short line whose success depends on wheat
By Andy Cummings and David Lustig
Not Your Grandpa's Grain Train
Monstrous 'Shuttle Trains' represent a new way of moving grain, and not everyone's happy
By Paul R. Sando
Seeds of History
Before shuttle trains and jumbo covered hoppers, locals and boxcars did the work
By Don L. Hofsommer
Railroad Reading
Railroaders' Olympics: A game of 'toss the tie plate' goes awry at the Great Salt Lake
By Norman L. Sevy
Gallery
BNSF in Washington; Southwest Chief in New Mexico; Union Pacific in Nebraska; and Metra in Illinois
By Assorted photographers
