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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Monday, December 29, 2014 6:13 PM

Advanced "Magazine Index" Search:

http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=SearchResults&advanced=true 

Results of searches for "MidSouth" and "Chicago Central" (selected), respectively:

"New dimension for Kansas City Southern - KCS has become an east-west railroad with the purchase of MidSouth", by Lamb, J. Parker , from Trains February 1996  p. 34
 
"Rebirth of the Vicksburg Route - MidSouth Rail Corporation", 
 
"Seared, burned, but now cooking - Chicago, Central & Pacific" ,
by Glischinski, Steve , from Trains July 1992p. 34
 
"Jack Haley and his Chicago Central crew - Can Chicago Central do what Illinois Central Gulf couldn't?" , by Hastings, Philip R. , from Trains August 1986p. 20
 

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Posted by jeffhergert on Monday, December 29, 2014 1:26 PM

I have the Trains' 1940-2010 collection.  I tried using the search function.  That didn't work, so I just looked at the the individual magazine covers, hoping I would recognize the particular ones.    That worked.

There were two CC&P articles.  August 1986 was shortly after start up.  A follow up article appeared in July 1992, after Jack Haley was removed.

There is a Mid South article in April 1989.  The cover blurb says it's 3 years old and 3 times as big.  I didn't check earlier years to see if there was an earlier one shortly after it's start up.

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Monday, December 29, 2014 11:36 AM

You can look through the table of contents and check availability of back issues online here.

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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Searching For Trains Back Issues
Posted by SFbrkmn on Sunday, December 28, 2014 6:20 PM

I'm loking for two back issues of Trains from late 1980's. This covers the Chicago Central and the Mid South when those shortlines were created. If anyone can tell me what issues they are in then I'll see if these copies can still be bought.

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