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
Glory Days: Over the Top
Summer Frenzy on Lake Erie
One Afternoon at 75th Street
Fond Farewells
Port Jervis: A Place to Watch Trains
Great Photographers: Colorado and Beyond with Dick Kindig
City of Memphis: The Budget Streamliner
Photo Classics
A Boy and the GM&O
Got Another One
Classic Railroad Advertising: Selling the Standard Era
Departments
Editor’s Page
Steam on the Cusp
Fallen Flags Remembered
Reading Company
The Way It Was
Northern Pacific’s Elusive FT’s, by David Lustig • Night in an Outfit Car, by Michael J. McLaughlin • Just Another Last Run, by Mallory Hope Ferrell • Rookie Fireman’s Friend, by T. B. Thompson • A Father’s Legacy, by Stephen A. Lake • That’s Railroading, by Robert J. Finnegan
A Classic Year
1945: ‘These Proceedings are Closed’
Bumping Post
Tampa Union Station
