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Reading Pacific on the PRSL

Characteristic of the indignities suffered by steam in its final years, Reading G-3 Pacific 215, built in 1948 as a top-flight passenger engine, loafs along with a single coach on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

Quiet Sunday on the DT&I

Mikados, an 0-8-0, and an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad Consolidation are arrayed around the turntable at Detroit, Toledo & Ironton’s Flat Rock Yard near Detroit on the day before Labor Day, 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]

Reading Co. Camelback Ten-Wheeler

As a crossing watchman stands guard, Reading Camelback 4-6-0 No. 608 brings a Newtown, Pa.–Philadelphia local into Fox Chase station in 1948. Leslie R. Ross photo […]

Icing the reefers on the CB&Q

A worker shovels salt into a reefer via a rolling chute at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy’s icing dock in Denver in 1949. The conveyor chain on the platform at right carries block ice along the platform. Earl Cochran photo […]

Dallas interlocking tower

An interior view at Tower 19 near Dallas (Texas) Union Terminal shows the track diagram (“model board”) of the territory controlled by the tower and some of the levers that controlled the switches and signals. This is an electro-pneumatic interlocking, in which switches are operated by compressed air. Historic American Engineering Record photo […]

Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – Williams Grove Steam Engine Association

Steam locomotive approaching along tree line

In this PBS Tracks Ahead segment, watch a number of vintage steam-powered locomotives and machines come to life on this working railroad ranch. […]

Century in sections at Chicago

New York Central E8 diesels idle at La Salle Street Station, Chicago, awaiting departure with two sections of the 20th Century Limited in November 1953. Robert W. Carper photo […]

Catching the Gulf Wind

The sight of an approaching Seaboard E7 signaled adventure: a boy’s first train ride. Wiley M. Bryan I don’t know how my fascination for trains began, but ever since I could remember, I had been drawn to their mystique. I like tracks, switches, sidings, and depots. I like everything associated with trains. So, in November […]

Classic Trains, Winter 2015

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Winter 2025

The December 2025 cover of Classic Trains magazine

Welcome – Guest editor: Kevin P. Keefe Head End – A potpourri of railroad history, then and now Book Reviews – What’s new in railroad publications True Color – Glass City Geeps The Way It Was – VIA cab ride with a twist Classics Today – A new home for a 2-6-6-2 Looking Back – […]