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: Last Hours of a Legend
Which Way Home from Denver?
Thrills and Chills on the Milwaukee Road!
Queen of the First Ladies
Great Photographers: Jim Shaughnessy: Self-Taught Master
Artist’s License in Austin
Hot Train and the Value of a Dollar
Photo Classics
Celebrating a Century
Canadian National’s Narrow-Gauge Kingdom
Departments
Editor’s Page
Our Witnesses to History
Fallen Flags Remembered
Virginian Railway
A Classic Year
1954: Riding high on the Santa Fe
The Way It Was
The Williamsport Shifter Fuel Feud, by John W. Orr • Caught in the Act, by Jim Shaughnessy • My Summer at ‘Tac Harbor’, by Eric Hirsimaki • Late Fall Encounter at Georgetown Junction, by Paul Seidenman • Close Call for the Scout, by Doyle Jackson • Live Steam on the Loose, by William E. “Cannonball” McGee
Bumping Post
Pacific Electric’s 6th and Main terminal, Los Angeles
