Great Trains Heartland covers the golden age of rail travel when luxurious streamliners raced across the American Midwest. This special collectors edition honors these great trains with fresh layouts and new photos, including rare color images. Featured trains include the Panama Limited, Zephyrs, Pan-American, Hiawatha, and more
MISSOURI RIVER EAGLE
Flyover country? No way!
GreatTrains IN PHOTOS
BURLINGTON Road of passenger progress • “Make rail travel attractive enough and you’ll get the business.” That’s the prevailing philosophy on the “Way of the Zephyrs”
TEXAS SPECIAL
TO NEW ORLEANS on the L&N • Nine miles of trestles along the Gulf Coast are an interesting feature of a trip on L&N’s Pan-American
MEADOWLARK AND WHIPPOORWILL
SP’s Lone Star STREAMLINERS • Junior versions of the Daylights keep Southern Pacific competitive between Dallas and Houston
TIPPECANOE
TRACTION’S finest hour • Two North Shore Line streamliners would be known as the most successful interurban equipment in history
CINCINNATIAN
KCS keeps the faith • A unique combination of market conditions and corporate commitment adds up to quality passenger service on one road
LAKER
Hiawatha AT NEW LISBON • When three steam-powered Milwaukee Road streamliners meet at a single point, there’s bound to be real activity
HIAWATHA STEAM SAMPLER
NEW LISBON, 1967
MAPLE LEAF
The Rock’s CAMELOT • Reflecting on that brief, shining moment when the Rock Island was among the best, and how its Rockets made it so
DETROIT ARROW
Michigan’s own STREAMLINERS • A Division Engineer recalls how his road launched America’s first all-new postwar trains
The dark horse 400 • Chicago & North Western’s most heavily traveled train isn’t the famous Twin Cities 400 but a sister streamliner that connects Chicago with northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan
BANNER BLUE AND BLUE BIRD
THE BUDGET streamliner • NC&StL couldn’t wait for a spiffy new passenger train, so in 1947 it built its own
TRAVEL . . . family style • Why go by train? Follow Bill, Dottie, and little Sue Andrews on a trip from Chicago to St. Louis and you’ll see some of the reasons: low cost, comfort, convenience, and speed
ILLINOIS TERMINAL’S STREAMLINERS
MY FINEST train trip • Illinois Central’s all-Pullman flagship: “Unquestionable proof to me that the potential of American railroad passenger service is both unlimited and untapped”
BADGER AND GOPHER
