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.
Features
Steinheimer Rides UP’s Park City Local
Summer of Love
Watch video clips of C&NW trains in action from Herron Rail Video
First 2 + 101 = Disaster
Photo Section
The Shaughnessy Files: Hippo Country
The Little White Frame House by the Tracks
Great Photographers: Harold K. Vollrath
Bird’s-Eye View: St. Louis from a Blimp
La Crosse’s Streamlined Station
Departments
Editor’s Page
Railroaders’ ties that bind
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Delaware & Hudson • Rock Island • Obituaries: Richard Steinheimer, Curtis L. Katz
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Kansas City’s first flyover bridge
Fallen Flags Remembered
Lehigh Valley
Classics Today
A grand display at La Crosse, Wis.
The Way it Was
How far can you travel for 15 cents? • Master of the E&W Turn • Self-contained helper power
Car Stop
Baltimore’s PCC era
Ready Track
New books and new audio CDs
Second Section
New Hope’s iconic depot • St. Louis, 88 years later • Still in the ATSF ‘family’
Bumping Post
Pennsy and Reading in Harrisburg
