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Stories about Steam

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on February 16, 2021


A six-part series from a great locomotive era

The cover shows a vintage color photo of a steam locomotive

 

Classic Trains presents Stories about Steam, a six-part series from the era of great locomotives. In this free, 20-page download, you will receive the following stoires:
  • Queen of the First Ladies, all about the Southern’s streamlined Ps-4s
  • Steam’s Dream Team, showcasing a lineup of five great steam engines
  • Bad Coal, a tale of how inferior fuel almost took down a Nickel Plate Berkshire
  • Dual-Service Paragon, a detailed run-down of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western’s Q-4 4-8-4
  • Making the Grade, a firsthand account from a fireman on the Santa Fe Railway during the lean days of The Great Depression
  • Nine Decades in the Service of Steam, a story of how CN’s Stratford shop became the railroad’s biggest steam overhaul facility

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