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
Where the Big Boys and Challengers Roamed
See some of the 16mm movies of Union Pacific Big Boys and Challengers that Stan Kistler filmed during his 1956 trip.
Running a Railroad for Fun
Bird’s-Eye View: Quincy Hosts the “Expo”
A West Coast Railfan in Philadelphia, 1967-1974
Read Editor Rob McGonigal’s summary of the transformations that took place in Philadelphia during the seven years after Bob Trennert’s time there.
Under My Nose
Lammy’s Ride
Ingles Color Classics: Illiana Ping-Pong
Charades on the Erie
In Every Issue
Welcome
Go east, young men!
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
The East Coast Champion faces an arboreal challenge • A Union Pacific Big Boy back in steam? • Top 10 tangents in the U.S. in 1946 • Fantrip flies over New Haven carfloats • Stowaways on the Chicago & North Western
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Small-town outlet: Frisco in Augusta, Kans.
Fallen Flags Remembered
Akron, Canton & Youngstown: First on the list, and innovative
Classics Today
Recreating the Erie Lackawanna passenger-train experience
The Way it Was
The Story of Squaw Valley • When the World was Silver Wonderful • The Century at Syracuse • Watermelons for the Troops
Car Stop
Pacific Electric’s ‘Little Red Cars’
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new DVD
Second Section
‘The Q’ takes to the air at Quincy
Bumping Post
Louisville & Nashville’s Canal Street Station in New Orleans
