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
Turbines Across the Desert
To Wash, or Not Wash, Was the Question
Classics Today: Indirect Preservation
The Shaughnessy Files: NYC’s Courtright Branch Throwbacks
Great Photographers: Wally Abbey
Bird’s-Eye View: McKees Rocks Shops
CP Style
M&StL’s Story City Branch
Working the Stock Yards Transfer
Departments
Editor’s Page
Thank goodness for light bridges!
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Items from railroad history, then and now
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Winter color in New England: White River Junction, 1963
Fallen Flags Remembered
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
Workin’ on the Railroad
Reservations in the round on the C&O
The Way It Was
Open-Hearth Light Show on the B&O: Benwood at Night • IC and NYC Action at Historic Kensington, Ill. • “Wanna Ride Along With Us?” Asked a Southern Engineer • Genesis of a Debt to be Rapaid on the NH • KCS and T&P Drag-Racing Out of Texarkana • NP Telegrapher at Wilber • “Abandoned” During SAL Switching at Jacksonville
Car Stop
El Paso’s long-lasting, border-crossing PCC’s
Ready Track
Brief reviews of classic era books and DVD’s
Second Section
The 64-Year Story Behind the Story City Story • Winter 2009 Issue Updates: the Cannon Ball, Collinwood, and Stratford
Bumping Post
Milwaukee Road’s Minneapolis station
