Fall 2007

Fall 2007

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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Charles T. Ripley: Santa Fe’s Unheralded Chief Mechanical Engineer

By Larry E. Brasher

During his tenure, steam reached its apex and diesels established a key beachhead [see video from the Herron Rail Video collection of Santa Fe 2-10-4’s in action]

Classics Today: Keeping Santa Fe’s Steam Heritage Alive

By David Lustig

Los Angeles-based 4-8-4 No. 3751 and plus 15 non-operational survivors recall the Ripley era

Riding the Michigan Air Line

By J. David Ingles

With steam excursions gone, four fans in 1962 enjoyed a branchline freight with a special diesel

20th Century: Star of Stage and Screen

By Les Hammer

New York Central’s great limited played well on Broadway and in Hollywood

Steam Around a Hole in the Ground

By Jim Shaughnessy

The quarries of Vermont’s Rock of Ages Corp. echoed to the sounds of steam locomotives into the late 1950’s. This is the first of our new series of photo essays called “The Shaughnessy Files”

One Day at . . . St. Louis Union Station

By Mike Schafer

Two rolls of Ektachrome-X color slide film were enough for 22 trains in 8½ hours

Maiden Run as an M&StL Brakeman

By Bob Lunoe

In 1947, a new man gets more than he bargained for on his first trip

Bird’s-Eye View: 30 Seconds over Chicago

Two 1960’s photos above North Western Station and environs

Photo Section

Color of CB&Q, Virginian, and WM steam, B&M diesels, and more

Departments

Truce Color

The Empire Builder in Big Sky Blue

Fallen Flags Remembered

Lehigh & Hudson River

A Classic Year

1952: A year of natural calamities and construction

The Way It Was

Riding a mixed train on the Northern Alberta Railways • Firing an Illinois Central 2-8-2

Car Stop

Two gauges in Portland, Ore.

Bumping Post

Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines’ terminal in Cape May, N.J.

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