Watch video clips of Niagaras, Hudsons, and Pacifics in the Hudson River Valley from the Sunday River Productions DVD Program Hudsons along the Hudson. […]
NYC Steam Along the Hudson River
Train Topic: History
Troop train on the Rio Grande
Denver & Rio Grande Western 4-8-2 1705 raises an impressive smoke plume as it lifts a troop train up the Front Range of the Rockies at Tolland, Colo., on May 16, 1943. Robert McKell photo […]
Santa Fe Hi-Level car plans and elevations
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Peabody Short Line Coal Company
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Andy Sperandeo, former Model Railroader editor, dies NEWSWIRE
WAUKESHA, Wis. – Longtime Model Railroader editor Andy Sperandeo died Oct. 3, in Brookfield, after a long illness. He was 70. Sperandeo joined the Model Railroader staff in 1979. Over the years he worked his up through the ranks, becoming editor in 1993 and, later, executive editor. Most recently he was editor of Model Railroader’s […]
Trains Presents: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train
Children of all ages love the circus – and the circus train! See the famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey “Blue Unit” circus train run over Norfolk Southern and learn more about its operation and consist with www.TrainsMag.com. […]
Trains Presents: Virginia & Truckee Railroad steam
Nevada’s famed Virginia & Truckee Railroad, once the richest railroad in the world saw a tourist revival decades after the route was abandoned. See the railroad’s steam-powered tourist operations in the Comstock Lode region with www.TrainsMag.com. […]
Trains Presents: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train
Children of all ages love the circus – and the circus train! See the famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey “Blue Unit” circus train run over Norfolk Southern and learn more about its operation and consist with www.TrainsMag.com. […]
Trains Presents: Virginia & Truckee Railroad steam
Nevada’s famed Virginia & Truckee Railroad, once the richest railroad in the world saw a tourist revival decades after the route was abandoned. See the railroad’s steam-powered tourist operations in the Comstock Lode region with www.TrainsMag.com. […]
Racing south on the Southern Belle
Kansas City Southern E8 No. 26 races north of Heavener, Okla., with the Kansas City-bound Southern Belle on December 30, 1962. J. David Ingles Back in 1968, when I first hired out on the Kansas City Southern Railway, I bid on and was assigned to the “second trick” operator’s position at De Queen, Ark. By […]
Thank you gift: Santa Fe
Thank you for being a loyal Classic Trains newsletter subscriber! Enjoy your love for classic trains to the fullest! Please enjoy a FREE gift: 27-page Article Collection we’ve set aside just for you! See downloadable files below for your FREE gift. Continue to enjoy the golden age of railroading on ClassicTrainsMag.com and enjoy these […]
Learning the lingo at Flagstaff
At Flagstaff, Ariz., where Santa Fe operator Elisa Lindenberg apprenticed in 1943, an operator hands up orders to an FT-powered eastbound perishables train in 1947. Joe Lynch The time was August 1943, the place, Flagstaff, Arizona. My mother, Elisa Ward Lindenberg, and I had come west because Zane Gray’s books had captivated her and she […]
