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: One Fine Day in Franklin Canyon
Iowa Getaway
Big Boys West from Cheyenne
My Summer in the Gold Cage
Great Photographers: David W. Salter, a Color Pioneer in the South
Bad Coal
Storming Blackwater Canyon
The Victimized Hudson
How Fast Could They Go?
Five on Film
Ghosts in the Piney Woods
Departments
Editor’s Page
Magnificent Obsession
Fallen Flags Remembered
New York, New Haven & Hartford
A Classic Year
1969: Weird, wonderful, and one-of-a-kind trains
The Way It Was
Susquehanna Surprise, by Robert Dykstra • The Pacifics that Held Up Berkshires, by Fred N. Houser • An Uncelebrated Steam Finale, by Ken Kraemer • PRR at Dola, Ohio, 1948, by John R. Crosby • No Way to Treat a Soldier, by Don Olsen • Riding the Red Cars to War, by Cliff Dektar • The Sunday the Trains Stopped, by J. J. Young Jr. • A Vote for the Troop Sleeper, by Bill Severin • Another Vote for the Troop Sleeper, by Joe Ewing • In Scranton, a Somber July 4 • And One for the Tourist Sleeper, by Lloyd Stagner • Travels Over Here and Over There, by Don Robinson • Measles and POW’s, by Ronald F. McWilliams • D.C. Union Station: I Was There, by Lawrence M. Clifton • Alabama to North Africa, by Joseph S. Cornillow
Second Section
David Salter preserves friends’ photos
Bumping Post
SP’s 3rd and Townsend, San Francisco
