Spring 2005

Spring 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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1930: The Van Sweringens Reach for the Stars

By Herbert H. Harwood Jr.

How two eccentric brothers from Cleveland and their suburban real-estate venture helped create one of America’s most unusual passenger terminals.

1935: PCC: The Wonder Car

By G. Mac Sebree

Faced with worn-out cars and falling ridership, electric railway leaders set out to develop the perfect streetcar.

1940: Orders Placed for Five Steam Superstars

Missabe 2-8-8-4 • Pennsy T1 • C&O Allegheny • N&W class J • UP Big Boy

1945: Big 6

By Robert S. McGonigal

Lima Builds its Last Shay, for the Western Maryland

1955: The Canadian

By Kevin J. Holland

The “Dream Train of the North” is launched by Canadian Pacific

1960: Mr. Kovalchick’s Full-Sized Train Set

By Dan Cupper

Saved by a scrap dealer, East Broad Top is a tourist-line pioneer and survivor

1965: The Biggest News Since 1939

By Greg McDonnell

EMD introduces the 645 diesel engine

1970: Just a Hint of Green

By J. David Ingles

On a trip to see the brand-new Burlington Northern, two travelers savored the falling flags of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific

1975: My Two-Year Freedom Train Adventure

By Doyle McCormack

The man behind the throttle of the rolling Bicentennial party’s SP 4-8-4 recalls a whirlwind of hard work, late night, and happy trackside onlookers

1950: A New Dress for Opposed Pistons

By David P. Morgan

Fairbanks-Morse’s C-Line tries to be the “ideal diesel”

Departments

Editor’s Page

75+70+65+60+55+50+45+40+35+30=5 for Us

True Color

C&O’s maize and blue

Fallen Flags Remembered

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio

A Classic Year

1980: Abandonment, Mergers, Deregulation

The Way It Was

How I Became “Old Smoky,” by Les Clark • Dad, Trains, and Me, by Michael Landry • A New Way to Unload Sand, by Steward A. Sparks • Could Amtrak Recover this Fast?

Car Stop

Atlanta: Curved sides to Stone Mountain

Second Section

Harwood honored for Van Sweringen book

Bumping Post

Santa Fe at Grand Canyon, Ariz.

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