Winter 2014

Winter 2014

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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.

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Feature Articles

Steam Autumn

By Stan Kistler

On the second half of an epic, month-long trip in late 1956, a Californian finds steam in northern Colorado and on D&RGW’s narrow gauge

See more photos from Stan Kistler’s epic 1956 trip around the West.

Strange Bedfellows

By J. W. Swanberg

A unique Amtrak RDC next to a “Pennsy” GG1 in 1978 — fake? Nope, real!

Ingles Color Classics: Long Way Home for Christmas

By J. David Ingles

Riding from east Tennessee to Detroit — via St. Louis — in 1965 gave evidence of the passenger train’s decline

Provocateur of Railroad Photography

By Kevin P. Keefe

In keeping with the spirit of the 1960s, John Gruber was a revolutionary

What’s In a Photograph? C&O’s Sportsman at Staunton, Va.

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

Train time at a small-city station in July 1958

Frank Bunker, a Man of Steam

By Jim Shaughnessy

A cab ride on a Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 led to a decades-long correspondence

Bird’s-Eye View: NYC’s Home for Electrics

By Peter Keller

Required engine changes out of New York helped locate Central’s Harmon shop

Photo Section

All color, all wintertime scenes on Donner Pass, the Delaware & Hudson, and Erie Lackawanna

Santa Fe’s 1 Percent Decision

By Donald Sims

Opened in 1960, a 44-mile line relocation across northern Arizona reduced gradients, cut curvature, and saved time

In Every Issue

Welcome

John Gruber: right man for the times

Contributors

Meet this issue’s crew

Head End

The Santa Fe’s Super Chief must go through! • Pullman’s double bedroom to nowhere • The case for Raritan River yellow cabs • Songs of the rails

Fast Mail

Letters from our readers

True Color

Great day on the Pacific Great Eastern

Fallen Flags Remembered

Algoma Central Railway: Tracks of the Black Bear

Classics Today

The Grand Canyon Railway

The Way It Was

Memorable Night at Winston Tower • Nights on the Nightingale • ‘Never Spend a Dime When a Nickel Will Do’ • First Ride with Dad

Car Stop

Land of the Liberty Bell Limiteds

Ready Track

Reviews of new books and new DVD

Bumping Post

69 Years of Change on the Baltimore & Ohio in Pittsburgh

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