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
The Road to Rescue
See more photos of pre-Amtrak last runs on Penn Central, Santa Fe, Delaware & Hudson, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, and other roads. Also, read the legislation that created Amtrak.
Ride ‘Em While You Can
View the entire consists of the trains J. David Ingles rode on his trip east
Ghost Train to Cleveland
Growing Up with Amtrak
See the detailed rosters of cars and locomotives Amtrak acquired from member railroads
Disbanding the Tribe
See two messages from Santa Fe presidents, Fred Gurley and John Reed
Streamliner Curtain Calls
Curves+Hills+Bridge Traffic=2-6-6-4
Birds-Eye View: On Detroit’s Riverfront
Photo Section
The Shaughnessy Files: The Swamp Rats
See additional Argent Lumber steam photos by Jim Shaughnessy.
Departments
Editor’s Page
A watershed moment
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Baltimore & Ohio • Amtrak’s 40th • Rio Grande view from caboose • Obituaries: Jim Boyd, Robert G. Lewis, Donald J. Krofta, William W. Kratville
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy little red waycar
Fallen Flags Remembered
Seaboard Air Line
Classics Today
Argent Lumber’s rat pack of steam lives on
The Way it Was
Crisis at the coal chute • Minidoka: place of enchantment • Vindication on Chicago & North Western
Car Stop
Ottawa Electric Railway streetcars
Ready Track
New books and new DVD
Second Section
Ancient Amtrak history 101 • Bird’s-Eye View from a structure
Bumping Post
Union Pacific’s Deco depot in Las Vegas
