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
Final Weeks of N&W Steam
The Bold Style of Tom Fawell
Harold Stewart and the Pacific Electric
Classics Today: Red Car Revival
One Day at . . . Birmingham, Ala.
The ‘Black Market’ and Power for No. 5
The Shaughnessy Files: Anatomy of a Night Photo
Bird’s-Eye View: Citadel of the C&EI
B&O’s P-1d Pacifics
My First Day on the Railroad
Departments
Editor’s Page
Railroading’s human side
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
True Color
Union Pacific steam-powered branchline mixed in Nebraska
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
Fallen Flags Remembered
The Muskogee Roads trio
Workin’ on the Railroad
Keeping commuters comfortable
The Way It Was
The Big Engine That Couldn’t (PRR) • One Moment Sooner! (NYC) • To Siagon Via Summit (ATSF, UP) • Safety Track on Saluda Grade (SOU)
Car Stop
San Francisco trolley-not cable-cars
Ready Track
Brief reviews of new books
Second Section
R&LHS announces award winners
Bumping Post
GN, NP at the Hill Lines’ Minneapolis terminal
