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.
Feature Articles
Battleship of the Rails
See some of the patent drawings covering elements of the Pennsy’s S2 turbine locomotive
Flying Amtrak
Farewell Old Woman
Riding the Ajo Cannonball
Photo Section
All color! Milwaukee Road, Illinois Central and depot, Chicago & North Western, New York Central, Southern Pacific, Maine Central, Boston & Maine, Canadian Pacific, Narragansett Pier
Central of Georgia’s Nancy Hanks II
The Friendly Soo
Bird’s-Eye View: Overlooking SP’s Oakland Mole
A Hidden Shortline Treasure
See more photos of the Union Transportation Co., including pictures of the two 4-4-0’s that worked the line before PRR 5244 arrived
In Every Issue
Welcome
In the end, size didn’t matter
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Steamboat obstructs the Rutland’s local • Milestone for Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 261 • Jersey Central service • Center for Railroad Photography & Art Conference • Southern Pacific recollections • Obituaries: Arthur D. Dubin, Warren W. Wing
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
A colorful third career of the Chessie System Special
Fallen Flags Remembered
Georgia & Florida: Class 1 in income only
Classics Today
The last active Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive is an 0-6-0
The Way it Was
Bound for Blackwater Canyon • Smoldering Embers of a Different Age • Double Thrill on the Oil Flyer • Meet Henry and John, Erie Fender-Makers • The Train That Never Came
Car Stop
Streetcars on Cleveland’s Public Square
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new CD
Second Section
Nancy Hanks coach lives on—up North!
Bumping Post
Pulling out of Winnipeg on the Canadian National
