Winter 2012

Winter 2012

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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Feature Articles

Fighting for the D&H’s Survival: The Sterzing Years, 1972-1977

By Karl Zimmermann

The era was much more than the Alco PA’s—the colorful D&H was the classic underdog

Read three Sterzing-era Delaware & Hudson news stories that were published in Trains magazine: two by J. David Ingles (May 1973 and July 1974) and one by Karl Zimmermann (December 1976).

Carrying Coals to Fairport

By Jim Shaughnessy

A former narrow-gauge line in Ohio was the improbable final home to B&O’s massive EM-1 articulateds

See more of Jim Shaughnessy’s 1955 Baltimore & Ohio Lake Branch photos.

Ingles Color Classics: Tasting Good Four Decades Later

By J. David Ingles

A forgotten interlude at downstate Illinois’ Winston junction

Bird’s-Eye View: Coast Line Roundhouse in Florida

By Larry Goolsby

Lakeland’s open-air facility hosted 2-8-2s and 4-6-2s in the 1940s

Photo Section

Diesels from six builders, all in color, on Katy, Louisville & Nashville, Western Pacific, Southern Pacific, Canadian National, and Rock Island

A Day on C&NW’s Geneva Switch Run

By Robert A. Janz

Filling in on a hot summer’s day in 1952, at last with an R-1 class 4-6-0, on a local out of West Chicago, Ill.

Sandhill Country

By Bill Withuhn

Interpreting the meeting, at speed, of two UP 4-8-4s, in a Ted Rose painting

IC’s Cairo Bridge

By Clifford J. Downey

A pioneering system link has required improvements over the years

Fantrip, 1953-style

By Philip R. Hastings

Six decades ago, photographer Phil Hastings and writer David P. Morgan rode a steam excursion on the Jersey Central. Unlike most of their other adventures, the trip did not result in an article in Trains magazine, and the photos have remained unpublished—until now

View a trip flyer and other documents related to the North Jersey Chapter NRHS’s High Bridge Branch.

In Every Issue

Welcome

The way we were

Contributors

Meet this issue’s crew

Head End

Union Pacific celebrates 150 years • Atlantic Coast Line Rail Test Car stops traffic • Snowstorm on the Pennsy in Lancaster, Pa. • William S. Young obituary

Fast Mail

Letters from our readers

True Color

Long-lived steeple-cab on the British Columbia Electric Railway

Fallen Flags Remembered

Savannah & Atlanta: a tale of success

Classics Today

CNJ steam revival

The Way it Was

Gettin’ Out of Dodge • Unintended Clearance Test

Car Stop

Variety in Mexico City

Second Section

Riding Bruce Sterzing’s D&H specials

Ready Track

Reviews of new books and new DVD

Bumping Post

Southern Pacific’s history lesson in the waiting room of its Sacramento, Calif., station

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