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.
Contents
Glory Days: The Electrics Won, but Steam Put on the Best Show
Turbines: King Coal’s Battle Against the Diesel
Last Gasp of the “Hoot Toot & Whistle”
Bird’s-Eye View: Three Los Angeles Photos
Three Good Days in the Army
Photo Section
Southern’s Not-So-Great Locomotive Chases
Great Photographers: Herb Harwood’s East and Midwest
One Day at . . . Mayville, N.Y.
Relics in the Roundhouse
Departments
Editor’s Page
The Many Yesterdays of Turbine Locomotives
True Color
Missabe Road in 1970
Fallen Flags Remembered
Columbus & Greenville
A Classic Year
1951: Passenger positives, lots of new diesels
The Way It Was
Previewing a Future that Never Was, by William J. Sparkmon • The Towerman Was a Kid, by David M. Morgan • Incident at Tucson, by Gordon C. Bassett • Like “The Grapes of Wrath” Back There, by Ken Rohde • Special Handling at Las Vegas, by Thornton Waite • Passing Trains on the B&O • The Weather’s Clear and the Track is Fast!
Car Stop
Birney’s in Marion, Ind.
Second Section
Big night on the Columbus & Greenville; Link audio CD’s available
Bumping Post
Reading Company’s North Broad Street Station, Philadelphia
