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
Coast to Coast by Rail and Air
‘Did You Plan to Mail Me the Orders?’
Every Two-and-a-Half Minutes
The Canton Creeper
Photo Section
Hurry Up – but Why?
Great Photographers: Robert A. Hadley: An Eye for the Machine
Mary Elizabeth of the NC
Copper Range Recalled
One Day at . . . Sheff, Ind.
Departments
Editor’s Page
True Color
LIRR C-Liner 2003
Fallen Flags Remembered
Maine Central
A Classic Year
1970: BN’s first steps, PC’s big fall
The Way It Was
Southbound Odyssey, by J. David Ingles • Postwar Commuter Surprises, by Adrian A. Paradis • Big Engines at St. Paul Union Depot, by Steve Glischinski • Big Saturday Night, by Kenneth Rohde
Second Section
Guardians of the rail-air legacy
Car Stop
Christmastime in Oklahoma City
Bumping Post
Charleston, S.C., Union Station
