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
Cannon Ball Runs
Twilight Encounter at Danville
Our “National Locomotive”
The Shaughnessy Files: The Great Shop at Colonie
Bird’s-Eye View: The Colonie Complex
Great Photographers: Donald Duke
One Day at . . . Collinwood, Ohio
Of Hoops and Forks
Recollections of a Tour Conductor
Departments
Editor’s Page
Tour conductors: Part crew, part passenger
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Items from railroad history, then and now
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
A rainy day on CN at Stratford, Ont., in 1958
Fallen Flags Remembered
Bangor & Aroostook, by Jerry Angier
Workin’ on the Railroad
All smiles on an NYC J-3a 4-6-4
The Way It Was
Hot-Metal Trains on the Erie • W. A. Eby: PRR Engineman and Foster Dad • Growing Up Along the Burlington • Milwaukee Road Steam-Electric Handoff • Boarding the L&N at Guthrie
Car Stop
Indiana steel-town streetcars-Gary Railways
Ready Track
Brief reviews of recent “classic era” railroad books
Second Section
More Collinwood and Colonie, plus Haggard and Thrall
Bumping Post
Erie Railroad’s Jersey City terminal
