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.
Feature Articles
E Units: A to 9
Martin Blomberg, Streamliner Designer
Read more about Martin Blomberg’s work in a PDF of the article “Martin Blomberg, Designer Extraordinaire” by Max Ephraim Jr. in the October 1994 issue of Trains magazine
The Knickerbocker Super Chief
Read more about the 1937 streamlined Super Chief in a PDF of the article “Crafting the Lightweight Super Chief“ by Larry E. Brasher in Classic Trains’ special issue, Streamliner Pioneers
Inside an E Unit
‘Better Trains Follow Better Locomotives’
Exploring the Kansas City Southern
Read a PDF of Lou Marre’s November 1967 Trains article, complete with passenger-car and -diesel rosters, and learn why KCS was optimistic so late in the game
Waterloo to Cedar Rapids on an Open Rear Platform
Photo Section
Of Hoops and Markers
Bird’s-Eye View: Portage, Wis.
Remembering the ‘Corkscrew’
In Every Issue
Welcome
Enduring excellence
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Light show on Lackawanna Railroad • New Santa Fe cars out East • New York Central portrait
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Chicago & Illinois Midland 4-4-0 No. 500 in 1952
Fallen Flags Remembered
Take a ride on the Seashore Lines
Classics Today
Extant E units
The Way it Was
Steam 101 • Hi-railing SP’s Montpelier Branch • A Young Railfan’s “Lucky Mistake”
Car Stop
PCC streetcars in Pittsburgh, before light rail
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new DVD
Bumping Post
New York Central’s Buffalo Central Terminal
