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Railroad Model Craftsman Extra Board With Mount Shasta looming in the background, a light freight powered by Southern Pacific Mikado 3227 crosses the Hotlum trestle to reverse direction on the Grass Lake Wye. Southern Pacific Shasta Route in HO Otis McGee/photo by Dan Munson Growing up in the 1950s, I occasionally “played with” trains. But, by my teens, my attention had turned elsewhere. Not until years later, in need of a distraction from the rigors that came with my career, did I return t...

Railroad Model Craftsman Extra Board Train 281, an empty unit coal train, pauses at the La Crosse depot for a crew change. The Milwaukee Road and Burlington Northern alternated coal trains and pooled U30Cs and wide-vision cabooses to run these trains between the Powder River basin in Wyoming and a power plant near Portage, Wis. Milwaukee Road on the Mississippi by Al Lesky/photos by Dan Munson Long a Midwestern fan favorite stretching from its namesake city across the prairies to the Pacific, T...