Summer 2001

Summer 2001

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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.

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Glory Days: Geep Country

By J. David Ingles

A brace of Detroit & Toledo Shore Line GP7’s exemplifies the southeastern Michigan diesel scene in the early 1960’s.

O. Winston Link’s Sounds of Steam

By John Gruber

The legendary photographer was famous first for his masterful audio recordings of Norfolk & Western locomotives.

Front Row Seat on the North Shore Line

By Stephen A. Lake

For a boy in the 1950’s, Waukegan, Ill., was a great place to watch America’s fastest interurban.

Last of the Prairie Mixeds

By Bob Johnston

Milk cans outnumbered passengers on some colorful Soo Line and Great Northern trains in the Dakotas.

When the Havana Special Came to Town

By Louis D. Rubin Jr.

At North Charleston, S.C., the daily arrival of Atlantic Coast Line’s crack train was a big event.

Photo Classics

Five big photos, featuring steam and diesel on the Missabe Road, Pennsylvania, Monon, Northern Pacific, and Boston & Maine.

‘Most Powerful Passenger Locomotives in the World’

By Robert A. Le Massena

Despite the Rio Grande’s boast for its three-cylinder 4-8-2’s, they had lackluster careers.

Sampling California’s Streamliners

By James E. Valle

Boyhood rides on the City of San Francisco, California Zephyr, and San Joaquin Daylight are treasured memories.

Great Photographers: Bob Lewis: He Saw It All

By John Gruber

For an enterprising railroad editor and photographer, the trick was to be in the right place at the right time.

Steam’s Dream Team

By Robert S. McGonigal

The enginehouse tracks at Cincinnati Union Terminal hosted an impressive array of locomotive talent.

London’s Pride and Joy

By Greg McDonnell

GP7’s and 9’s from EMD’s Canadian affiliate were the standard of north-of-the-border railroading for decades.

Departments

Editor’s Page

Link’s Genius Served an Obsession

Fallen Flags Remembered

Delaware & Hudson

A Classic Year

1961: New life for one friend, farewell to some others

The Way It Was

Merger? What Merger? When Two Tariffs Equal One Trip, by J. David Ingles • Welch: Santa Fe’s Arizona Outpost, by Charles W. Lindenberg • The Reverend and the Rock Island, by Richard J. Anderson • The Right Touch, by Bert Pennypacker

Bumping Post

New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal

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