Trains Magazine - December 2009 Vol. 69 Issue 12

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Trains Magazine - December 2009 Vol. 69 Issue 12

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Trains magazine covers the broad spectrum of railroading with authoritative content, dazzling photography, and a mix of content designed to appeal to everyone from the casual enthusiast to the seasoned professional railroader. Trains offers something for everyone who has a spark for railroading: Railroad news, insight, and commentary on today's freight railroads, passenger service, transit, locomotives, technology, preservation, fan opportunities, and more. You'll also see images and read stories from railroading's glorious past, and explore the bright future of railroading. It's all in the pages of Trains magazine.

This Issues Features:

Of Steam, Smoke, and Christmas Cheer
How a 68-year-old Pere Marquette 2-8-4 puts smiles on 7,700 faces
By Jeff Mast

A KCS Christmas Carol
The Ghost of Christmas Present is alive and well on Kansas City Southern's annual Holiday Express train
By Peter A. Hansen

Snowplow City USA
In the brutal winter of 2009, the railroads of central North Dakota brought in plows to keep freight moving
By Robert Jordan

Season's Greetings Sent with Steel and Snow
Railroading through three decades of Christmas cards
By David C. Warner

Bonus Content: See all 33 years of David C. Warner's Christmas card images
Map of the Month: By Train to Florida, January 1953

How travelers escaped the cold
By Curtis W. Richards and Bill Metzger

Where Christmas is Just Another Day
It's business as usual for trains and crews on BNSF's Montana Division, even on the holidays
By Joel Jensen

Bonus Content: Take in more Montana winter railroading
Railroad Reading: A Maiden Run on Christmas Eve
A Norfolk Southern train crew breaks in a new locomotive
By Dan Cupper