Hey guys,
I'm actually looking for a little help on this project. I need to locate a lot of articles from train magazines dating back to the 1960's, and as a college student, I can't afford to pay $400-$500 to buy all of the back issues (some of which aren't even available). I know that a lot of people collect older magazines or keep them after reading them... if anyone happens to have any of the following issues and articles, if it would be possible for you to scan the article or even just take pictures of the pages (as long as I can read it, it doesn't matter what medium I have it in), it would be greatly appreciated if you could send it to me!!!!
Trains
February 1965 – “A Tale of Two Railroads: Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh Valley”
July 1965 – “Can NYC Live Happily Ever After with its 34,000 Commuters? Central’s Second Look at Commuters” (p. 20)
April 1967 – “Thank You, Mr. White: William H. White Put Erie Lackawanna in the Black” (p. 18)
November 1967 – “PRR vs. Car, Plane, and Bus: The Northeast Corridor Project” (p. 18)
February 1968 – “The Demise of a Dream: New York Central’s Southwestern Limited Now Consists of One Coach” (p. 18)
February 1969 – “The Kankakee Belt is Back in Business: Penn Central’s Chicago Bypass” (p. 20)
April 1969 – “Journey Into the Unknown: New York to Washington Compared with Earth to Moon” (p. 35)
July 1969 – “What’s Right (and Wrong) with the Metroliner: Its Significance is in the Promise, Not the Performance” (p. 26)
January 1970 – “How Penn Central Plus New Haven Equals Penn Central: What is Happening to the Former New Haven within Penn Central?” (p. 20)
March 1970 – “Turbotrain Revisited: The Stepchild of the Northeast Corridor” (p. 32)
August 1970 – “Is This the Way to Washington? The Metroliner Can’t Afford to be Just Another Train” (p. 25)
April 1971 – “Where On Time Means in the Station, Not in Sight of It: Erie Lackawanna’s Commuter Operation” (p. 38)
May 1971 – “PC: No Time for a Minuet: It’s Time for Draconian Measures” (p. 20)
June 1971 – “Second Chance for Turbo: A Continuation of the Demonstration Project” (p. 29)
August 1971 – “Amtrak Q. & A.: Answers to Questions about Amtrak” (p. 10)
September 1971 – “The Trains Amtrak Forgot: The Trains Amtrak Didn’t Take Over” (p. 28)
December 1971 – “Turntable: Curtain, Please: Penn Central Has No Reason for Continued Existence” (p. 58)
January 1972 – “Tale of a Timetable: Amtrak’s 11/14/71 Timetable” (p. 12)
March 1972 – “Jersey Central Had a Great Fall: The Cause of Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Problems” (p. 20)
April 1972 – “Amtrak Approaches a Three-Way Stub Switch: There Will Be Some Budget Cutting on July 1, 1973” (p. 14)
July 1972 – “Can You Match That, Amtrak? On-Time Train Riding” (p. 48)
August 1972 – “Is Amtrak Legal: Amtrak’s Status” (p. 37)
October 1972 – “Turntable: Dear Amtrak: The Average Rider Doesn’t Understand” (p. 58)
November 1972 – “Ironies of Penn Central: When Will PC be De-Nationalized” (p. 25), “An Amtrak Sampler: Notes on 17,451 Amtrak Miles” (p. 20)
May 1973 – “D&H: 150 Years Old and Still Solvent: Status of Delaware & Hudson” (p. 26)
June 1973 – “Turntable: Why Should Railroads Cooperate with Amtrak? Revenue, Showcase for Railroading”
August 1973 – “Turntable: Good News from the Lehigh Valley: The Classic Redundant Railroad” (p. 58)
October 1973 – “Turntable: Requiem for the Pennsylvania: A Decline and Fall as Squalid as that of the Roman Empire” (p. 58)
August 1974 – “A Conversation with A. E. Perlman” (p. 42)
October 1974 – “The Railroad that Stayed Out of Amtrak: Southern Railway” (p. 26)
November 1974 – “Extra Board Diary: Working on the Extra Board” (p. 43)
December 1974 – “Amtrak: How Much Money is Enough Money? Amtrak’s Five-Year Improvement Plan” (p. 12)
February 1975 – “Turntable: End the Miseries of Amtrak” (p. 66)
May 1975 – “Patching Up the Amtrak Statute: The Amtrak Act Needs Some Changes” (p. 52)
September 1975 – “Kneiling vs. USRA: Dim Prospects for Conrail” (p. 52)
January 1976 – “Turntable: A Pennsy Believer Shows Up: A Few Stockholders Still Have Faith in the Company” (p. 66), “Amtrak at 6 p.m., May 1, 1975: Where the Trains Were on Amtrak’s 4th Birthday” (p. 48)
April 1976 – “We Can Catch the Turbotrain Tomorrow: Watching E8’s on Commuter Trains” (p. 20)
December 1976 – “Big Little D&H: Expansion of the Delaware & Hudson” (p. 12)
Feburary 1977 – “Turntable: An Open Letter to Amtrak: Service Is Not Demeaning It Is a Fine Art” (p. 66)
June 1977 – “Instead of a Tower: Operator Working from a Car and a Telephone Box” (p. 62), “Jervis Langdon Jr. Contemplates Conrail: Conrail Isn’t Going to Make It” (p. 40)
September 1978 – “This Can’t be Millburn. There’s No Bar Across the Street: Commuting on Erie Lackawanna” (p. 28)
January 1979 – “Turntable: On Avoiding Third-Degree Burns and Gas Pains: Amtrak Needs a Chance to Develop a Nationwide System” (p. 66)
February 1979 – “How Big Was Big? The Dimensions of the Standard Railroad of the World” (p. 44)
April 1979 – “What Are We Stopping Here For? A Customer Critique of the Northeast Corridor”
October 1979 – “Turntable: USRA vs. D&H a Rebuttal: Reference to Turntable in December 1978 Trains” (p. 66)
January 1981 – “Conrail from the Inside Out: A Thorough Study of Conrail” (p. 32)
February 1981 – “Rebounding from the Low Point: Conrail from the Inside Out” (p. 44)
July 1981 – “Little Giant, Free Again: Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Out from Under Penn Central Control” (p. 36), “Crane on Conrail: An Interview with L. Stanley Crane” (p. 14)
August 1981 – “The Massive Century, Flame at the Stack: Conrail Alcos in Ohio” (p. 50)
September 1981 – “Weekend Before Amtrak: An Excursion on the Eve of the End of Individuality” (p. 34)
November 1981 – “Congress on Conrail: Changes for Conrail” (p. 22)
September 1983 – “Want to Buy Conrail? What’s the Price?” (p. 12)
February 1984 – “Would Crane Manage the Cubs: Conrail Looks Better and Runs Better than its Predecessors”
April 1984 – “The 4000-Mile CR Alternative: Guilford Unites Delaware & Hudson, Boston & Maine, Maine Central” (p. 10)
July 1984 – “A Pro Answers Questions about Conrail: The Future of Conrail” (p. 8)
January 1986 – “How to Get Amtrak Out of the Woods: Strategy for Eliminating Dependence on Subsidy” (p. 24)
October 1986 – “Conrail Blues: Action on Conrail as Good as What Went Before” (p. 54)
March 1988 – “Selected Railroad Reading: My Train: Yard Clerk on the Penn Central” (p. 51)
February 1989 – “Glad for the Amtrak Alternative: Amtrak is an Alternative to Flying and Driving” (p. 82)
June 1991 – “At the Dawn of Amtrak: The Events Surrounding May 1, 1971” (p. 34)
February 1992 – “Life and Death of Erie Lackawanna: A Railroader’s Railroad Disappears” (p. 32)
October 1992 – “Merger, Money, and Men: What Happened when NYC fought C&O for B&O?” (p. 48)
December 1992 – “Hot Spots: Allentown, Pennsylvania: On Conrail’s Main Line between Harrisburg and Northern New Jersey” (p. 86)
August 1994 – “Al Perlman Was Right: NYC’s Flexi-Van Service” (p. 70)
February 1997 – “On Location: Conrail’s New Jersey Mountain Crossing: Former Lehigh Valley Route” (p. 46)
January 1999 – “Dirty Black Rags to Shiny Blue Riches: Evolution of Conrail’s Locomotive Fleet” (p. 60), “Readers’ Platform: Success at What Cost? Conrail Owes Its Success to Labor” (p. 82)
January 2002 – “Conrail’s Predecessors: Map of Conrail Showing Predecessor Railroads” (p. 65)
June 2002 – “The Late Great Lehigh: Was it the Most Interesting of the Eastern Regional Lines?” (p. 36)
March 2003 – “Map of the Month: PC vs. Conrail: Penn Central’s 1974 Tonnage Compared with Conrail’s 1998 Tonnage” (p. 60)
January 2004 – “Railroad Reading: Braking Toward Bethlehem: Ore Trains from Philadelphia to Bethlehem” (p. 72)
March 2005 – “An Awful, Beautiful Life: The Story of Erie Lackawanna” (p. 32), “No Surrender: Penn Central in Brief” (p. 44)
February 2006 – “Whatever Happened to the Pennsylvania? The Pennsy in 1965 and 2005” (p. 40)
June 2006 – “Metroliner’s Amazing Race: History of Metroliners” (p. 44)
August 2006 – “Railroading Reading: Blue-Chip Investment: Lehigh Valley Stock” (p. 64)
Railmodel Journal
February 2006 – “Time Capsule: Allentown, PA on the Lehigh Valley and Conrail: Circa 1975, 1980” (p. 14)
CTC Board
February 1996 – “Bethlehem Steel: Bethlehem’s Last Blast Furnace: The Final Days”
Railroad Model Craftsman
March 1970 – “RMC Rides the Metroliner” (p. 19)
October 1971 – “Amtrak – End of an Era” (p. 20)
Model Railroader
August 1981 – “The Ghosts of Allentown Terminal” (p. 93)
Model Railroading
October 1987 – “Consists, VI: Allentown, PA, 4/16/76; The Yard in Color” (p. 32)
Railfan & Railroad
June 2004 – “Four Railroads, Four Boroughs: Watching Trains in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania” (p. 48)
Railroad Modeler
May 1979 – “Amtrak – Before and After” (p. 10)
NMRA Bulletin
October 1971 – “Pre-Amtrak Train Travel” (p. 41)
February 1974 – “Easton, PA – Lehigh Valley Station” (p. 30)
March 1977 – “Remember When – The Black Diamond Ran” (p. 75)
July 1977 – “Evolution of the Railroad Herald – Conrail” (p. 29)
October 1977 – “Amtrak – Yes or No” (p. 13)
January 1981 – “Before and After Amtrak” (p. 23)
Also, if anyone has The Historical Guide to North American Railroads, Second Edition:
“Central Railroad of New Jersey” (p. 71)
“Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation)” (p. 129)
“Erie Lackawanna Railroad” (p. 166)
“Lehigh & Hudson River Railway” (p. 213)
“Lehigh & New England Railroad” (p. 215)
“Lehigh Valley Railroad” (p. 217)
“Penn Central Company” (p. 326)
“Reading Company” (p. 358)
And, finally, Guide to North American Railroad Hot Spots:
“Pennsylvania: Allentown” (p. 157)