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.
Feature Articles
Building a Best-Seller
Read the 10-page article about EMD’s Plant 3 at Cleveland, Ohio, from Classic Trains special edition, Diesel Victory.
Pacific Lumber: California’s Last Logger
Red Flag at Koldok
New York Central Steam Memories
See more photos of New York Central steam in the early 1950s, in Dayton and other Ohio points.
Bird’s-Eye View: Meridian Family Gathering
Rails to Dockside
Train Time in Durand
Ingles Color Classics: Reprising the Blue Dart
To Mexico for Slim-Gauge Steam
See more photos from Jim Shaughnessy’s 1961 trip to the Mexican narrow gauge.
In Every Issue
Welcome
Dilworth: father of the road-switcher
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Welcome back, Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261! • Ford Thunderbird vs. Illinois Terminal GM SW1200 • Burlington Route 4-8-4s 5632 and 5629 meet with inches to spare • George H. Drury obituary • Michael R. Stephens obituary • John C. Illman obituary • 16,000,000 tons of ice used each year in mid-1940s
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Three-road show at Pueblo, Colo., 1965
Fallen Flags Remembered
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Classics Today
CP’s S.S. Keewatin; Durand, Mich., depot museum
The Way it Was
Things That Go Bump on Third Trick • Sgt. Saunders and the KCS • How the Hog got the Dog on the Cat • Train to the Buses on the Boat
Car Stop
Streetcars in Omaha, Neb., and Council Bluffs, Iowa
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new DVD
Bumping Post
Off the Waterfront in Oakland, Calif., at SP’s 16th Street
