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: EMD’s Soft Sell
Ball Signals of Vermont
Bringing in the Beets
Great Photographers: Warren McGee’s Montana
“Tired” locomotive
Photo Section
“The Pittsburgh Train”
One Day at . . . Ft. Worth, Texas
Wabash’s Phantom N Class
Trestles and Tunnels Along the Border
Departments
Editor’s Page
Cherishing the fleeting past
True Color
Photo line with a mission on the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville
Fallen Flags Remembered
Norfolk & Western
A Classic Year
1948: Amid postwar optimism, some celebrations
The Way It Was
Rondout Memories, 1941, by Frank Sellers • Streetcar Sundays, by Michael G. McHale • Second 68 and the Lafayette Helper, by Hal Lewis • Hail, Columbia! by Louis A. Marre
Car Stop
Changing Times in Birmingham, Ala.
Second Section
Shortline steam stalwarts
Bumping Post
Pennsylvania Station, New York
