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RAILROAD MAGAZINE April 1949 - Vol. 48 # 3 - 35 Cents Cover: Goshen Gap, Va. ( C&O ) by Frederick Blakeslee EDITOR: Henry B. Comstock ART DIRECTOR: Thorkild S. Paaby ASSOCIATE EDITORS: E.M. Kennedy, H.H. Gross ELECTRIC LINES: Stephen D. Maguire ED. ASS'T: Shirley Chidsey Short Haul Explicit Dispatcher - p 6 An actual train order issued in 1845 to Andrew Quinton, a Philadelphia & Trenton Railway (now PRR ) conductor. Illustrated Feature Annual Speed Survey p 8-39 'Mile-a-Minuting Jumped 14,192 Miles in 1948, with Lehigh Valley Showing Greatest Proportional Gain' This is the annual vehicle for RM staff to vent frustration at Railroad Management in their head-long abandonment of passenger service. They can't even figure out whether the Major lines are suffering from bad management or whether t is a well thought-out plot to dump passenger service. Photos and Lists: Lehigh Valley Diesel # 612 leads a fast consist around a curve following the banks of a winding river. - p 8-9 '4000 Fairbanks-Morse horses get out of Chicago's Union Station for initial run of the new Afternoon Twin Cities Hiawatha ' - p 10 'Late '48 edition of The 20 th Century Limited , makes her debut at La Salle St. terminal' - p 11 'Diesel -powered (# 187 ) Westerner pays a morning call at Rocky River , O., starting point for its 60 mph. Sprint to Lorain . No. 7's timecard moved the Nickel Plate into the "70 mph," bracket as of '48 ' - p 12 ' Seaboard 's Silver Meteor draws the sun and the crowds at Miami Station. Road is pursuing an active track modernization program' - p 16 (nice rear shot of observation car) 'Setting the pace (# 4026 and 2 B units) for other Illinois speedsters is City of New Orleans --82.7 miles an hour for 58.7 miles. Only 4 roads in US top 80 mph.' - p 17 ' Santa Fe 's out front again: 14,821 miles of mile-a-minute running and the greatest yearly boost in highspeed carding in our Survey history. El Capitan (led by an Alco A-B-A set - 53?), long-distance passenger train easing through Los Angeles terminal beneath Mission Tower, turned in the top-flight performance of 967.2 miles clocked at better than 70 mph.' - p 18 'Fastest Regularly Scheduled Start-to-Stop Runs on United States and Canadian Railroads' - p 19-36 (Railroad - Train (# & Name) - From - To - Miles - Time (min.) - Speed (mph)) Broken down by Diesel, Steam and Gas-electric 'Steam-powered (# 4488) San Joaquin and Coast Daylights are contributors to Espee tabulation, Nos. 97 and 99 turn in 117-mile, start-to-stop performances from Santa Margarita to Salinas' - p 20 'New Diesels, new cars, name trains--and progressive management--have made a new road of the Monon . 's the old Day Express (with streamlined equipment she's now the Thoroughbred ) pinching down for the reverse curve through Gosport, Ind.' - p 22 ( a very nice scene taken from a higher level showing the train as well as freight shed on a spur next to the unique station - another one of those "should be modeled" scenes' 'Canting to Garrison Curve the Century flaunts her neon drumhead at a staff photographer. Approaching freight is powered by one of the Lima-built 3100s which occasionally powered the Limited before the Diesel came' - p 25 'A chattering exhaust that swells to thunder, a flash of blue and gray; ricocheting echoes; then only the whisperings of the hurrying Potomac--that's the Cincinnatian by Dawson, Md. Long sustained runs, rather than high speed, contribute to the impressive performance of this steam powered beauty on one of the most scenic--and operationally difficult--daytime runs in America' - 30 (nice shot of Fountain Square observation car following four cars at this scenic spot) 'Mile-a-minute speed. 29 minutes for 29 miles is the pace of the Pacahontas between Suffolk and Wakefield , Va. At Suffolk , big Northern -type 605 gets a fast wheel on her consist' - p 34 'Newly-delivered General Motors ... read more

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