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Big Boy goes East • UP 4-8-8-4 ventures onto Norfolk Southern as part of transcontinental tour, will run excursion on Reading & Northern as part of 'railfan event of the 21st century'

Siemens opens North Carolina plant • New facility, now producing coaches for Amtrak Airo trainsets, will help address backlog from Sacramento, offer heavy maintenance for cars and locomotives

Arrivals & Departures

South Shore's Monon corridor debuts • New 8-mile branch provides commuting options along Indiana-Illinois state line

Can railroads ace their next big test? • Railroads pledged to have enough crews to handle surges

Railroad customers must make their voices heard • The STB needs to hear concerns about proposed UP-NS merger

Texas State Railroad steam celebrates America 250 in color • Paint scheme recalls 1976 American Freedom Train

Museum adds shop

Preservation photos

America at 250: Still unimaginable without the iron horse

My, how you've changed • Since the Bicentennial in 1976, the U.S. railroad industry has been swept by eight major changes

Red, white, and blue in black and white • The Bicentennial locomotives of Pittsburgh

When the Bicentennial came to 87th Street • Eight diesels, an out-of-the-way railroad yard, and an editor’s brilliant idea

An EMD comeback? • The first major North American order in a decade tests whether Progress Rail can reenter the new-locomotive race

On the road with Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 • What it takes to keep the world’s largest steam locomotive moving

In the August issue

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