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
Great Photographers: Bill Middleton, Writer with a Camera
Burlington’s Night Crawler
Classics Today: Rail Mail Legacy
Missouri Pacific’s Lemon Berkshires
Riding the Hawkeye
The Keokuk Line’s 15 Minutes of Fame
Bird’s-Eye View: Seaboard’s Backshop at ‘West Jax’
The Shaughnessy Files: Scientific Streamlining
Read about a boy’s cab ride on a Grand Trunk Western U-4.
Watch video clips from the Herron Rail Video archives of Canadian National and GTW U-4’s in action.
Seatrain: Railroad or Steamship Line?
A Half Century of Difference at Dominguez Junction
Read a history of the Pacific Electric.
Watch video clips from the Transit Gloria Mundi archives of PE Red Cars in action.
Departments
Editor’s Page
Seatrain: ahead of its time
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
New Haven shipwreck • Wallace W. Abbey photos • Scrapping a steam locomotive • Missouri Pacific parlor-observation car • Link family album • Donald Duke obituary
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
The true Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian
Fallen Flags Remembered
Chicago & Illinois Midland
Workin’ on the Railroad
Keeping Santa Fe streamliners cool
The Way it Was
A trip on the Erie • A doubleheader to dance about • BL2’s and Pullmans to the Stock Yards • No support group
Car Stop
Key System’s Bridge Units
Ready Track
New books and DVD’s
Second Section
Keeping Wabash history alive • Pullmans on the Burlington’s “Night Crawler”
Bumping Post
SP streamliner meets V&T accommodation in Reno
