Classic Trains is a quarterly magazine celebrating the “golden years of railroading.” Each issue covers the North American railroad scene from the 1920s to the late 1970s with extraordinary photographs and compelling writing. Giant steam locomotives, colorful streamliners, down-home local trains, great passenger terminals, recollections of railroaders and train-watchers . . . they’re all in the pages of Classic Trains.
Contents
Glory Days: Railroad Ghosts
When the B&O Ruled Wheeling
Homage to a Jubilee
Before There Were Tourist Lines
Gordon Roth’s Big Engines
The Clover Leaf and its Split Personality
The Late Show
Photo Classics
Classic Railroad Advertising: Tomorrow’s Train . . . Today!
Departments
Editor’s Page
Local Heroes
Fallen Flags Remembered
Minneapolis & St. Louis
A Classic Year
1957: O&W gives up the ghost
The Way It Was
First Big Trip on the Clover Leaf, by Donald E. Daily • R.I.P. on the Q, by John A. Swearingen • Mason City Memories, by Paul Beyer • On-Time John, by William E. “Cannonball” McGee • The Buffalo Switch, by Theodore Shrady
Bumping Post
South Station, Boston
