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
Racer in Red Paint
North Meets South
Fantrip Fun on the FJ&G
Nine Decades in the Service of Steam
Bird’s-Eye View: Three Chicago Photos
Photo Section
Building a Better Boxcar
One Day at . . . Erwin, Tenn.
Pursuing Pauline
My Summer in Rocky’s Kitchen
Departments
Editor’s Page
No Boondoggle in Swampoodle
True Color
E’s for MoPac’s Eagles
Fallen Flags Remembered
Grand Trunk Western
A Classic Year
1927: Steam Rides High, a King Comes Calling
The Way It Was
Deepest Twilight on the Rutland, by Bruce W. Beardsley • Now I Understand, by David Lustig • Thank You, Q, by Bob Jack
Second Section
D.C.’s quick recovery, railroaders as resources
Car Stop
Third Avenue line, Manhattan’s last el
Bumping Post
Santa Fe and Union stations, Oklahoma City
