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
Remembering the North Shore
Watch video of North Shore Line action in excerpts from the Sunday River Productions’ DVD Program The North Shore Brought to Life.
10 Essential Interurban Car Designs
Riding the Pacific Electric
Interurban Special Photo Section
La Belle Interurban
Seeking Sunshine Somewhere, Anywhere!
Birds-Eye View: Frisco Varnish Southwest of Tulsa
The Mountaineer Limited: Going to Cass in Style
See detailed car consists for all the C&O trains at Hinton early that Saturday.
Ingles Color Classics: “Who Would Paint Hopper Cars Yellow,” Indeed
See color photos of more old and oddball Peabody Coal diesels.
Molly the Mallet: MoPac’s Extreme Steam Machine
Bad Day at the Races
In Every Issue
Welcome
What was an interurban?
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Seeing double on the Norfolk & Western • Burlington Route Zephyrus demoted • Slicing up the U.S. car fleet in 1946 • New York Central 4-8-4 Niagara’s bell
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Blue Pacific: Baltimore & Ohio 4-6-2 No. 5300
Fallen Flags Remembered
Norfolk Southern Railway (1883-1974)
Classics Today
Wisconsin’s interurban survivor: East Troy Electric Railroad
The Way it Was
Pennsy Dinosaur Tracks in Ohio • On Calling Stations … and Cows! • Routine Morning at LAUPT
Car Stop
Rochester, N.Y.’s, Trolley ‘Subway’
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new CD
Bumping Post
Interurban Capitol: Indianapolis Traction Terminal
