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: MARCH SADNESS
The Trains of Troy
The Secret Borax Train
Bird’s-Eye View: Three Depots in the South
From Buffalo Limiteds to Hoboken Commuters
Photo Section
Executive Recruiter
One Day at . . . Joliet, Ill.
Great Photographers: William Moedinger, A True Pioneer
A Ride on the Tennessee
Departments
Editor’s Page
We all have our Troys
True Color
North Shore Line at Milwaukee
Fallen Flags Remembered
Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern
A Classic Year
1946: Dream Trains, Diesels, and Demobilization
The Way It Was
A South Bend Tradition, by J. David Ingles • My “Bad-Luck” Engine, by Jack O. Elwood • Mrs. White’s Final Journey, by Steven Duff • A Peach of a “Zephyr”
Car Stop
Birneys at Independence, Kans.
Second Section
Vista-Dome debut on the GM&O
Bumping Post
St. Louis Union Station
