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
The Last 11 Years of the Lackawanna
Classics Today: At Age 100, Hoboken Terminal Looks Better and Better
A Day of Excitement and Mystery
The Passenger Trains of Jim Scribbins
One Day at . . . Sapulpa, Okla.
Cab-forward Curtain Call
Broadway Limited: Pennsy’s Turn in Tinseltown
Bird’s-Eye View: Pennsylvania Triangulation
Mohawk Valley Doodlebug
Seaboard Air Line’s “Other Streamliner”
Departments
Editor’s Page
Century vs. Broadway: The camera didn’t lie
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
True Color
Backstage in Chicago with BRC and CSL
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
Fallen Flags Remembered
CN’s Newfoundland Railway
A Classic Year
1934: Streamlining sweeps the nation
The Way It Was
Super Bowl Sunday on the Santa Fe • Hi-cubes and Fruit Cans on the NYC • Creating the World’s Largest Fusee on the C&NW
Car Stop
“The Rapid”: Cleveland’s dual-personality system
Ready Track
Brief reviews of books and DVD’s
Second Section
More cliffhangers for Texas State Railroad
Bumping Post
Texas & Pacific’s Forth Worth skyscraper
