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
East Bay Rails
Ingles Color Classics: Hats Off to the Santa Fe … or Maybe Not
What’s In a Photograph? Cotton Belt on the MoPac at Gorham, Ill.
Alexandria Steam Show
Street Fight in Chicago
Bel-Del Doodlebug
One Man’s Minneapolis
Bird’s-Eye View: Seattle’s King Street and Union Stations
Breaking Away in the Monon Manner
In Every Issue
Welcome
The trains of our youth
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Canadian Pacific’s gizmo with the golden shoes • Big steam doings, West and East • Average cost of new locomotives installed on U.S. railroads, 1941-45 • Photo exhibit opens in Chicago • Robert A. Janz obituary
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Diesel-to-steam transition time on Western Maryland
Fallen Flags Remembered
The Rutland Railroad: Green Mountain Saga
Classics Today
Spectacle at Spencer
The Way it Was
Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Fool Around Spadina in the Morning • Boot Camp Train-Watching • The 16-Hour Switcher • Tour of the Century
Car Stop
Cedar Valley Road’s local streetcars, the last in Iowa
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new DVD
Bumping Post
War and peace at Canadian Pacific’s Windsor Station, Montreal
