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
My Five Student Trips
Cut Off and Loaned Out
No Lifeguard on Duty
Bad-Luck Electric
Engineers: Good, Bad, Sleepy, and Disgusted
Limbering Up C&NW Steam Locomotives
Those Delightful Derby Days
What’s In a Photograph? N&W at Blue Ridge, Va.
Mr. Brosnan “Makes” History
Ingles Color Classics: Sunrise at Owen
Check out the train consists and photo subjects recorded by author J. David Ingles.
Bird’s-Eye View: New Haven’s Cedar Hill Terminal
Stepping Back in Time
See more photos by Jim Shaughnessy of Palmerston’s little trains and locomotives.
In Every Issue
Welcome
“Come on up”
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Steam vs. diesel vs. steam out of Boston & Maine’s North Station • The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society presents awards to Jim Scribbins, Denny Anspach, and Tom Gildersleeve • Two small boys’ fascination by Pennsy’s 80-inch drivers • “Streamliners at Spencer,” May 29-31 and “Train Expo 2014,” June 20-22 • Wallace W. Abbey obituary • Doug Harrop obituary
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Colorado & Southern in Denver, 1958
Fallen Flags Remembered
Central of Georgia—”The Right Way”
Classics Today
Palmerston, and those little CN Moguls
The Way it Was
An Unexpected El Capitan Cab Ride • The Making of a Steam Fan • Watering Hogs on the N&W • Long Island Rail Road Memories
Car Stop
Modern Brill cars in Indianapolis
Ready Track
Reviews of new books
Bumping Post
In Chicago, Dearborn Station’s window on the world
