Our annual Motive Power Review gives you information you can’t find anywhere else: an exclusive listing of every new locomotive built in North America. In addition to the Motive Power Review, you’ll find feature stories including: -Metra Muscle: see the motive power that moves 300,000 Chicagoland commuters each weekday. -Canyon Country: Drew Halverson explores the spectacular Thompson River Canyon where modern motive power toils in some of the most forbidding and beautiful landscapes in North America. -A Century of South Shore Freight: Chicago South Shore & South Bend celebrates 100 years of hauling freight on one of the nation’s most successful interurban lines. -And many more!

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Locomotive

Always a class act

Battery-electric breakthrough • Wabtec’s FLXdrive locomotive flexes its muscles

20/20 THE AGE OF CHANGE • 20 things that changed the motive power scene in the first 20 years of the 21st century

THE BIG SIX FLEETS BY THE NUMBERS: ALL 22,990 LOCOMOTIVES 2000

The Iron-Horse opera • Confessions of a middle-aged locomotive reporter

20/20 MOTIVE POWER MOMENTS: 2000-2020

September, West Crookton • A month of Septembers: So much of my life had changed, West Crookton had not

Muscle on the MOFFAT • Changing times, changing colors

A.C. RULES! • Diesel locomotives are turning in unprecedented performances thanks to alternating-current propulsion systems

REPORT CARD: 6583 ON LOGAN HILL • Performance analysis for UP AC4400 6583, June 11, 1998

INSIDE GENERAL ELECTRIC’S AC6000CW

D.C. DIEHARDS

GENERATION CHANGE • EMD SD50s and SD60s are repowering short lines and regionals

ROAD TO THE FUTURE • Erie’s Building 60 has played a critical role in locomotive technology and success for more than a century

Small, but complex • Like the railroad itself, there’s a lot to the New York & Atlantic locomotive fleet

CONVERTING THE CONVERTIBLES • CP’s SD70ACU revival honors tradition

Man and machine at work