Fall 2010

Fall 2010

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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.

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Toward the 2-10-4

By Neil Carlson

With developmental roots in plodding 2-10-0’s and 2-10-2’s and high-horsepower 2-8-4’s, the 2-10-4 Texas type was the pinnacle of two-cylinder freight locomotive design. See video clips of Pennsy and Santa Fe 2-10-4’s in action plus an article on the Bessemer’s 2-10-4 fleet from Winter 2000 Classic Trains

Classics Today: Texas Types Today

By Robert S. McGonigal

Nine survive, from the Lone Star State to Alberta and Quebec

Time Travel in 1966

By Stephen Crews Wylder

An Iowa circle trip transported me back to when passenger trains really mattered

The Wacky, Wonderful Portage Flyer

By Steven Duff

The “World’s Smallest Commercially Operated Railway” was a colorful link between two lakes in Ontario resort country. See a 1942 public timetable for the steamboats that connected with the Flyer, plus more photos of the little train.

Photo Section

All-diesel: Katy, SP, MP, and Santa Fe PA’s in Texas; the streamlined ‘Crescent’; C&NW in the 1970s; CN on Vancouver Island; D&TSL, Interstate, B&LE, and VGN road-switchers

Gandy Dancer Days

By Max A. Hill

I came away from summer track-gang work on the New York Central a stronger man, both mentally and physically

Remembering the 800’s

By Lou Gerard

Built for Russia but never shipped, the South Shore’s massive “Little Joe” electrics created lasting memories in their twilight years

Bird’s-Eye View: The B&M’s Boston Hub

Annotated aerial view of South Station, Boston

The Shaughnessy Files: Mikes and Geeps to Monarch!

By Jim Shaughnessy

Rio Grande’s steep Monarch Branch challenged narrow-gauge steam and standard-gauge diesel power

Departments

Editor’s Page

Little trains off the beaten path

Contributors

Meet this issue’s crew

Head End

Hybrid locomotive, 1932-style • New “Freight Train” country album features a famous passenger diesel • “Streamliner” on Chicago’s Grant Park Railway in 1933 • Last armstrong interlocking tower falls

Fast Mail

Letters from our readers

True Color

Autumn along the Delaware River: Erie Lackawanna action

Fallen Flags Remembered

The West Point Route

Workin’ on the Railroad

Passenger terminal employees

The Way It Was

Stalled on MoPac’s Kirkwood Hill: Two big engines that couldn’t • Confusion on the old Norfolk Southern: The “middle” order • Jersey Central freight on the New York & Long Branch • NYC tries to make an impression: Polishing the rails for GE • Diesel to steam on the UP

Car Stop

Elevated and subway lines in Philadelphia

Ready Track

New books and DVD’s

Second Section

Update on the GG1’s genesis: Rediscovered models and documents shed further light on Donald Dohner’s role in designing a classic

Bumping Post

Santa Fe’s Oakland (Calif.) outpost

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