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
Great Photographers: Richard Steinheimer
School of Steam
Old Sparky
One Day at . . . Kankakee, Ill.
Photo Section
Making Time on the Midlander
Meeting M-190 Face-to-Face, at Last
How to Handle a Caboose, or Not
Shooting Eagles
Departments
Editor’s Page
Left-Hand Men
True Color
CB&Q 4-4-0 at Galesburg, Ill.
Fallen Flags Remembered
Central Vermont
A Classic Year
1936: Streamliners on the Fast Track
The Way It Was
When the Green Hornet Raced the Hiawatha, by Gil Reid • One Man’s Favorite Locomotive, by George Gillespie • Temporary Block Station, by W. L. Gwyer •
Car Stop
D.C.’s Stylish Sightseer
Second Section
261’s Milwaukee (Road) Homecoming
Bumping Post
Fort Street Union Depot, Detroit
