Vintage Rails issue #20 Sep/Oct 1999 (magazine)

Rare Pleasures
  • Steinheimer's highs and lows of American railroading.
Life upon a Business Car
  • Was there a mystique about working aboard business cars?
Oregon Trunk Mixed: A Rarity in 1970
  • Take a ride on Burlington Northern's only mixed train.
Southwestern Interurban Interlude
  • Three friends investigate electric roads in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas in 1946.
Jersey Central's Super Pacific's
  • When galloping along at full tilt, they bore down upon you with a remarkable display of power and motion.
Photo Album: Chicago Great Western
  • Mike Nelson presents his views of this friendly granger railroad.
Big Power in the Rockies
  • New steam power revived the Denver & Rio Grande Western.
Portraying NYC's Prosperity
  • Herbert Morton Stoops' imagery came to define NYC's advertising campaign of the 1920s.
History of the Lionel Scale Hudson
  • A guest columnist tells the story behind the first mass-produced low-cost scale model from Lionel.
Classic Railroad Stories
  • "Automated Block," by William Edward Hayes.


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