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
Finding FA’s
Once Upon a Railway
What’s In a Photograph? CB&Q Trains at Aurora, Ill.
Chasing a Royal Hudson with the Canadian
A Photographer Who Could Think on His Feet
Birds-Eye View: P&WV’s Rook Yard, Pittsburgh
Serendipity on Homestake Pass
Variety in the Valley
See more of Jim Shaughnessy’s photos of the Connecticut River Valley railroad scene.
Eat Taters and Wear No Clothes
Read about ET&WNC’s last narrow-gauge run on October 16, 1950.
In Every Issue
Welcome
Photographs as teaching tools
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Steam retreats from the Milwaukee Road’s Iowa Division • Renumbered Pennsylvania Railroad E7 • Cornelius W. Hauck receives Railway & Locomotive Historical Society medal • Unlikely power for a Rock Island branch • American’s freight-car fleet,1945 • Electroliner restoration effort • Robert A. Le Massena obituary • Alvin F. Staufer obituary
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Santa Fe PA’s against a Surf Line vista about to vanish
Fallen Flags Remembered
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Rio Grande and California Zephyr video
Watch video clips of Rio Grande articulateds and the California Zephyr in the Rockies.
Classics Today
Ride a bit of the old “Tweetsie” in the Doe River Gorge
The Way it Was
Dad Was a Closet Railfan • It’s Not What You Think • My Niagara Was Missing
Car Stop
New York City’s Third Avenue Railway
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new CD
Bumping Post
Union Pacific’s Art Deco monument in Omaha
