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	The July 2021 issue (32 pages) contains: FOBNR Freight Car(s) The HO scale FBNX car visits Bryan Smith’s Chicago and Iowa layout in Fernley, Nevada, and two N scale FBNX cars visit the Moffat Modelers’ layout at the Fourney Museum in Denver, Colorado. Photos and descriptions of their visit to several locations along the lines. A Taste of 1994 to Kick Off 2021: The Hastings-McCook Local, by Joel Poland A short article, with photographs, about chasing the local, powered by two relics of the BN era, a GP50 and SD40-2, still in BN Cascade Green, as it worked from Hastings to Cambridge, Nebraska. Wow, What a Ride! Pat Keim: Oral History (Part 2 – Government Relations) Pat started on the CB&Q while in high school, then worked his way up into senior management in operations as the Montana Division Superintendent in Havre, Montana. Part 2 follows his transition into government relations and life after BNSF. Henry Frick Excerpts from an essay by Earl Currie about the career of Henry Frick on the BN and BNSF in train service and as a dispatcher. Before & After: 2003 / 2020 Before and after photographs of BN/BNSF rotary snowplow 972554 in Glendive, Montana. Plattsmouth, Nebraska: A Forty Year Coal Line Project, by Gary Seymour An article about the history of the cut and bridges where the BN/BNSF crosses the Missouri River. Includes a map, several photographs, both historic and modern, along with a short essay by civil engineer Chuck Easton about problems and solutions to erosion of the cut. Tuning up my Atlas BN C30-7 #5112, by Bryan Smith Tips on getting an HO scale Atlas C30-7 into tip-top running condition. Over the Top Photos of the roof detail of GP20s 2001 and 2032.

The July 2021 issue (32 pages) contains:

FOBNR Freight Car(s)
The HO scale FBNX car visits Bryan Smith’s Chicago and Iowa layout in Fernley, Nevada, and two N scale FBNX cars visit the Moffat Modelers’ layout at the Fourney Museum in Denver, Colorado. Photos and descriptions of their visit to several locations along the lines.
A Taste of 1994 to Kick Off 2021: The Hastings-McCook Local, by Joel Poland
A short article, with photographs, about chasing the local, powered by two relics of the BN era, a GP50 and SD40-2, still in BN Cascade Green, as it worked from Hastings to Cambridge, Nebraska.
Wow, What a Ride! Pat Keim: Oral History (Part 2 – Government Relations)
Pat started on the CB&Q while in high school, then worked his way up into senior management in operations as the Montana Division Superintendent in Havre, Montana. Part 2 follows his transition into government relations and life after BNSF.
Henry Frick
Excerpts from an essay by Earl Currie about the career of Henry Frick on the BN and BNSF in train service and as a dispatcher.
Before & After: 2003 / 2020
Before and after photographs of BN/BNSF rotary snowplow 972554 in Glendive, Montana.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska: A Forty Year Coal Line Project, by Gary Seymour
An article about the history of the cut and bridges where the BN/BNSF crosses the Missouri River. Includes a map, several photographs, both historic and modern, along with a short essay by civil engineer Chuck Easton about problems and solutions to erosion of the cut.
Tuning up my Atlas BN C30-7 #5112, by Bryan Smith
Tips on getting an HO scale Atlas C30-7 into tip-top running condition.
Over the Top
Photos of the roof detail of GP20s 2001 and 2032.

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