Fall 2005

Fall 2005

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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Glory Days: Fastest Thing on Earth

By William Benning Stewart

Nickel Plate Road’s made good on its “High Speed Service” slogan, and taught a young boy about railroading.

The Lonesome Pine Special’s Jopurney into History

By Ed Wolfe

Anatomy of a discontinuance: The last days of a colorful Southern Railway train were difficult, and precedent-setting.

Electric Freight!

A special photo gallery of 15 U.S. steam railroads-including 9 in color and a Pennsy/Milwaukee Road foldout-that employed “juice jacks” to haul tonnage in the classic era.

One Day at . . . Bound Brook, N.J.

By George W. Hamlin

Jersey Central and B&O action in 1973 at a north Jersey junction.

Great Photographers: Thomas J. McNamara

By Scott A. Hartley

Tom was a color pioneer, who, with his late friend Kent Cochrane, covered the New Haven like a blanket in the1950’s.

Augmenting on SP’s Coast Division

By Bob Freese

For a locomotive fireman in the early 1950’s, extra-board pay was better, and the assignments were more interesting.

The Buffalo Shuffle

By Bob Chambers

Each night in 1949, the New York Central performed miracles at Buffalo Central Terminal, where switch crews juggled nearly 100 cars among 30 passenger trains. With a special foldout car-routing diagram.

Rocketing on By

By J. David Ingles

A 1961 interlude at Englewood (Ill.) Union Station concludes with a close call.

Bird’s-Eye View: Santa Fe in Three States

Albuquerque (N.Mex) roundhouse and shops; the Tulsan in Oklahoma; Gainesville (Tex.) yard.

Departments

Editor’s Page

High-profile niche technology

True Color

Kansas City Southern’s Southern Belle in 1962

Fallen Flags Remembered

Clinchfield

A Classic Year

1942: Wartime, Abandonments, Records

The Way It Was

Finding Erie-builts on the Pennsy in 1961, by Jay Potter • Working for the Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern in 1943, by Nav Fosse • Lackawanna in the Delaware Water Gap in 1930 • Merger comes to an Erie Railroad town in 1962, by W. L. Gwyer • Train priorities on the B&O at Toledo in the early 1960’s, by Ralph Bailey • Watching the Katy at Denton, Tex., in 1944, by Frank Rogers

Car Stop

San Francisco cable cars in the 1940’s and ’50’s

Second Section

Natural Tunnel, in color

Bumping Post

Vancouver, B.C., on Canadian National

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