Fall 2009

Fall 2009

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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Tales from the Front

By Barry Anderson , Dan Ranger , Bob Freese

Three retired firemen remember good times and bad aboard Southern Pacific’s giant cab-forward 4-8-8-2’s.

One Day at . . . Zacatecas, Mexico

Stan Kistler found steam riding high during a 1960 trip south of the border

The Shaughnessy Files: The Jumping Goose

By Jim Shaughnessy

Teenaged Jim Shaughnessy encounters a homemade railbus on the little Grasse River Railroad in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State

Fort Worth & Denver Days

By Gary Bonine

Boyhood steam adventures in Abilene, Texas, during the early 1950s

Photo Section

Lackawanna, B&O, and Milwaukee diesels in color, plus steam on Canadian National, Santa Fe, and North Western

Bird’s-Eye View: Depot Pairs in Omaha and Baltimore

PRR’s Penn Station and B&O’s Mount Royal Station (Baltimore) and CB&Q’s Burlington Station and UP’s Union Station (Omaha)

Classics Today: Omaha’s Art Deco Masterpiece

By Robert S. McGonigal

Omaha Union Station is now a multifaceted museum

Storming the Steel City

By J. David Ingles

Dave Ingles recalls a 1962 visit to “Fortress Pittsburgh,” home to gritty industrial roads and their rare diesels.

The Case of the Black Marias

By Preston Cook

Alco’s first answer to the F unit may have been a failure, but it pointed the way to the FA

Departments

Editor’s Page

Sacramento got it right with SP 4294

Contributors

Meet this issue’s crew

True Color

Men in blue with Northern Pacific F units

Fast Mail

Letters from our readers

Fallen Flags Remembered

Georgia Railroad, by Ken Marsh

Workin’ on the Railroad

KCS on the eve of computerization

The Way It Was

Remembering the North Western in Madison, Wis. (C&NW) • Beyond the Management Training Program (N&W) • Uniquely UP Diesels: GP20 and DDA40X • Win a Few, Lose a Few (UP) • Time Portal in Elizabeth, N.J. • The Time I Got to Run ‘My Unit’ (IC) • Whose Cab Ride IS This? (EL) • Close Encounters of the 4-6-4 Kind

Car Stop

PCC’s in Detroit

Ready Track

Brief reviews of new books and DVD’s

Second Section

Whatever Happened to Pittsburgh’s Short Lines?

Bumping Post

Terminal Station in Birmingham, Ala.

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