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
Inside the Santa Fe: My Big Red School Bus
Inside the Santa Fe: Master of the L.A. Division
Inside the Santa Fe: Hijinks on the ‘Punkin Run’
Inside the Santa Fe: Conductor to the Stars
Crossroads of the South
Photo Section
William White: Railroad leader
William S. Young’s Short Lines and Steam
Swank Switcher
Hoosier Hot Spot
Departments
Editor’s Page
Santa Fe was a classic—all the way
Fallen Flags Remembered
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
A Classic Year
1950: Two old competitors tie the knot
The Way It Was
By Train to Cedar Point, by J. David Ingles • When White Was Black, by Bert Pennypacker • Room Service? Can You Send Up a 6300? by J. W. Swanberg • Traveling with the Team, by Nick Thomas • Split-Second Timing on the Phoebe Snow, by Theodore Shrady • The Great Great Western Freight Encounter, by Richard J. Anderson • Birth of a Nickname, by George Rieves
Second Section
Books Feature Passenger Classics
Bumping Post
New Haven station, Provincetown, Mass.