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
Big Boys by Night . . . and Day
Of Chicks, Rollers, and the Caboose as a Target
Steam in the Eastern Townships
Dashing Dan’s Stationmaster
One Day at . . . Brookfield, Ill.
Bird’s-Eye View: Boston’s South Station
Trainmaster Troubles
My SP Roundhouse Days
Classics Today: SP Heaven in a Canyon
Spring Break, 1950
Departments
Editor’s Page
Steam in the background
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
True Color
Mixed liveries when the Erie Lackawanna was new
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
Fallen Flags Remembered
Atlantic Coast Line
Workin’ on the Railroad
Car-shop craftsmen, on NP and Soo
The Way It Was
When I Cast My Ballot for the RS3 (NKP) • Hold the Panama! (IC) • The Mums (SP) • Muskogee Memories (MV, KO&G) • The Last Dance (ATSF) • Mallet in Ohio (NYC) • Little Girl and a K4 (PRR) • On Stage at Hackettstown (DL&W)
Car Stop
San Diego streetcar days
Ready Track
Brief reviews of new books
Second Section
Where the Big Boys are
Bumping Post
MoPac PA’s at Houston Union Station
