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From the Editor

Trains

G&W CEO says rail industry needs to innovate • Miller: Railroads must do more to embrace technology and catch up with trucking

CSX works to increase car handling ability at crucial hump yard in Waycross, Ga. • Rice Yard, railroad’s busiest, is readied for expected growth of carload traffic

CSX brings holiday event to area hit hard by Helene damage • ‘Holiday Express’ visit to Erwin precedes Santa Train

Caltrain sends equipment to Peru

What will happen if railroads can’t grow? • Wall Street eventually will demand deep cost-cutting

Good neighbor • When people suffer, railroads might make a real difference

A first for the Santa Fe • Coal demand kickstarted the nation’s first point-to-point single-railroad unit train

Steam Update • Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?

Columbus unlit • By 1974, this station was a fascinating urban relic

ROADRAILERS RIDE OFF INTO HISTORY • Only Norfolk Southern embraced the trailers equally at home on road and rail

No thanks, I don’t smoke • A road grader tests the conductor’s willpower

SAVE UP TO 58% • GET 1 YEAR OF TRAINS FOR AS LOW AS $39.95

LONE STAR ACTION • U.S. Route 287 follows the BNSF almost the entire way between Amarillo and Fort Worth

The art of changing trains • Opportunities for photos, but don’t miss your connection!

WRM receives legacy BART cars • Cars will be part of new Rapid Transit History Center

GALLERY: STEPHEN HOST