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
Overnight to Denver
The Unwanted Berkshires
First Trip
M&StL’s North Star Limited
Pooky’s Hammer
In Deepest Mississippi
Photo Section
Great Photographers: Don Sims: Well-traveled, Adventurous
One Day at . . . New Lisbon, Wis.
Departments
Editor’s Page
Joining the Birds with “Bird’s-Eye View”
True Color
Fading New Hven Alcos
Fallen Flags Remembered
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
A Classic Year
1958: New Yards, More Diesels Symbolize Progress
The Way It Was
To Chicago with Dad, by Frank M. Rogers • A Friend in Time: My Railroad Watch, by Jack O. Elwood • Mix-Up on the Ripley Mixed, by Bob Withers • 1910 Substance vs. ’57 Style
Car Stop
Big-time Trolleys in Small-Time Johnstown, Pa.
Second Section
Hammer Drawing Recalls Railroad Drafting Offices; R&LHS awards
Bumping Post
Digby, Nova Scotia
