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
Special GG1 75th anniversary section
A Wonderful Life
Donald Dohner: The Man Who Designed “Rivets”
One Day at . . . Lane Tower, N.J.
The GG1 and Me … a Hoghead’s Story
The Shaughnessy Files: One Sunday in November
Two Ways to Skin a “G”
Classics Today
Anatomy of a Motor
By Train to the Indy 500
All-Steam, All-Color Photo Section
Bird’s-Eye View: Spencer’s Enduring Roundhouse
Camp 20 Graveyard Extra
Quadrupling Cerro Summit
Departments
Editor’s Page
The GG1 We Never Knew
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
True Color
Mid-American trifecta at Flossmoor, Ill., on the Illinois Central Gulf
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
Fallen Flags Remembered
Lehigh & New England By Robert E. Mohowski
Workin’ on the Railroad
Radio Comes to the MoPac
The Way It Was
I Was a Teenage Hostler at Benwood, W.Va. (B&O) • My Memorable Steam Summer of 1959 (CN and CP) • Pere Marquette’s Long-Lived Livery (C&O) • 20th Century Limited in Twilight (NYC)
Car Stop
Montreal Tramways
Ready Track
Brief reviews of new books
Second Section
Steam Was in the GG1’s Genes • The plight of “Rivets,” the first GG1 • Lehigh & New England’s long-lived 0-6-0 No. 207
Bumping Post
Spokane Union Station
