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
Two Days with Western Maryland Steam
Around the Standard-Gauge Circle
Unexpected Fan-Trip Adventure
The Shaughnessy Files: JV is for Johnsonville
The Cocky Kid at MC Tower
Classics Today: Urban Sentinel
Photo Section
Mixed Train to Waterloo
Bird’s-Eye View
One Day at . . . Hermosa, Wyo.
Departments
Editor’s Page
Towers were rooms with a view
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
True Color
Lackawanna’s tugboat navy
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
Fallen Flags Remembered
Ann Arbor Railroad
Workin’ on the Railroad
Trackwork, 1978: Not as mechanized as one might think
The Way It Was
Learning the Lingo at Flagstaff (Santa Fe) • The Customer is Always Right (General Electric) • Last Ride North from Xenia (PRR) • Close Encounter with the B&OCT • Loaded for Bear (SOU) • “Not Prototypical”—but Real! (NYC) • Immobilized Mallet on the Milwaukee Road
Car Stop
Birneys in Sioux City, Iowa
Ready Track
Brief reviews of new books and DVD’s
Bumping Post
NC&StL’s Union Station in Chattanooga, Tenn.
