TRRA H&TS Magazine
Issue 73 - 2013

This 176 page issue features the Clover Leaf Route and the Nickel Plate in St. Louis, and more

The Editor's Page
      Page 2

The Clover Leaf Route
      Page 3, 1 photo

Nickel Plate Pullmans to St. Louis
      The Clover Leaf Route Was Known for its Frugality
      Lawrence Thomas
      Pages 4-21, 27-35, with photos, advertising, system map, timetable, St. Louis Union Station layout

East St. Louis Freight House
      Information from the 1922 Report of the Engineers Committee
      Pages 22-26, with color photos and fold-out track diagram

Nickel Plate Operations in the St. Louis Area
      Pages 36-43, with timetables and B&W photos
      Robert Rodell

NKP and the TRRA and the 14th Street Shops
      Pages 44-52, with B&W and color photos and track diagrams, and 14th Street coaling tower coverage with B&W photos

Nickel Plate Trains, Accidents, and Pullman Cars
      Pages 53-73, with B&W and color photos, track diagrams, and car diagrams

Nickel Plate Service to New York City
      From St. Louis to New York via the Lackawanna
      Pages 74-79, with B&W and color photos, advertising, timetables, and car diagrams

Cleveland Union Terminal
      Pages 80-93, with fold-out, B&W and color photos, advertising, timetables/schedules, Pullman car diagrams, dining car menus

Dieselization
      Pages 94-99, with B&W and color photos, Merchants Bridge Dispatcher train sheet

Working at NKP's Ridge Farm and Madison Towers
      "...most of the work at the tower was pretty routine..."
      Wesley M. Ridgway
      Pages, 100-105, with B&W and color photos, track diagrams, depot photos

Nickel Plate Road, Blue Dart and Blue Arrow
      Pages 106-149, with B&W and color photos, track diagrams, system map, car diagrams, timetables, coverage of mail & express, miscellaneous consists, newspaper clippings, fold-out

After the Nickel Plate Years
      The City of Lima
      Bill Pollard
      Pages 150-151, with color photos

Whre did they go?
      The post-merger careers of NKP's lightweight sleeping cars
      Kevin J. Holland
      Pages 152-154, with color photos

Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis R.R., St. Louis Division
      Pages 155-163, with timetables/schedules, car diagram

Pullman Cars Assigned to the Nickel Plate Road
      Pages 164-169, with B&W and color photos, car assignment lists, car diagrams, advertising

Notes on sources
      Pages 170-174

In Appreciation
      Page 175

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