Winter 2005

Winter 2005

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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.

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Final Winter for the Narrow-Gauge

By Frank Barry

A Peace Corps assignment in northern New Mexico put a photographer in position to record American steam’s last great battle against the snow. With 10 black-and-white photographs.

After Chicago’s Big Storm

By J. David Ingles

Classic Trains’ senior editor recalls a roundabout train trip to Chicago only days after the great blizzard of January 1967 had blanketed the city. With 14 color photos.

A Midnight Ride through Frozen Vermont

By Jim Shaughnessy

With diesels on the way and the temperature at 20 below zero, the all-weather cab of a Canadian National 4-8-4 on Central Vermont’s Washingtonian and Montrealer was the place With 7 black-and-white photos.

Photo Section

A gallery of winter railroading, featuring an NP 4-6-6-4, the C&NW at Madison, Wis., a B&M SW9 in New Hampshire, GM&O F units, a former GN observation on Amtrak’s Twin Cities Hiawatha, and a Soo Line snowplow at work.

Six-Wheeler vs. Snow

By Bert Pennypacker

In December 1942, an 0-6-0 rescued a frozen-up doodlebug on a Reading Company branch-line run.

Arizona Aftermath

By Gordon Glattenberg

A southern Californian got a rare look at winter railroading when he headed east on the Santa Fe main line after a 1967 blizzard.

Bird’s-Eye View: Three Key C&O Facilities

Annotated aerial photos of Raceland, Ky., car shop; Huntington, W.Va., locomotive shop; and Parsons Yard in Columbus, Ohio.

One Day at . . . Dorval, Quebec

By George W. Hamlin

Canadian National and CP Rail mainline action at a busy spot west of Montreal. With 10 color photos.

Departments

Editor’s Page

The Snows and Trains of Yesteryear

True Color

Southern Pacific’s lone RDC passing a steam freight at Albany, Calif., in 1955.

Fallen Flags Remembered

Pere Marquette Railway

A Classic Year

1968: Bright Colors, Steam-Ups, a Dark Day

The Way It Was

Memories of a Delaware & Hudson tripleheader at Lake George, N.Y., by Robert T. Graulty • Santa Fe’s classy recovery from a Missouri derailment, by G. Mac Sebree • Incident on Horseshoe Curve, 1947, by Jack Wise • Splintery end for a Wabash depot, by Glen Brewer

Car Stop

A PCC and two standard cars in Cincinnati

Second Section

Rancho Rio Grande

Bumping Post

Broad Street Station, Richmond, Va.

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