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Magazine: Classic Trains
History According to Hediger: Riding the Auto-Train
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Planes, trains, automobiles, and even a tornado, this episode has it all! Jim recounts his trip to Florida in the 1970s on the then-new Auto-Train, but half the adventure proved to be just getting to the station! Related Topics: history according to hediger […]
First train to Tower Grove usually wins
St. Louis, late 1940s: After a “race” that was not as close as the one author John Mills saw in 1941, MP 4-6-2 5327 rolls the Missourian past a Terminal Railroad Association Baldwin diesel as Frisco 4-8-2 4401 backs the Will Rogers into Union Station. Harold E. Williams What could be more exciting to an 11-year-old […]
History According to Hediger: Fantrip on the Wabash
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s into the Way-Back Machine for this episode of History According to Hediger. In 1959 Jim was part of a fantrip on the Wabash RR, put on by the Michigan Railroad Club, and he shares many great pictures from the event in this […]
Green beans and trains
Erie Pacific 2707, a sister to the engine that enthralled author Noble during Ohio summers, is seen at Dunkirk, N.Y., 200 miles and two seasons away, but coincidently also alongside an NYC line. Al Rung My dad, after changing jobs following World War II, from Crosley Corp., in Cincinnati to one at Wright-Patterson Air Force […]
‘Happy 10th birthday, David Watson!’
A trio of new Seaboard E4 diesels, perhaps the very ones “David Watson” saw in Florida three months earlier, shows off the citrus-hued Orange Blossom Special livery in March 1939. Hugh M. Comer, David W. Salter coll. To be addressed by my first and middle names by my parents meant one of two things. Either […]
EMD’s Plant 3 at Cleveland, Ohio
Read about EMD’s Plant 3 at Cleveland, Ohio, in “Not Built at La Grange,” an article from Classic Trains Special Edition No. 4, Diesel Victory (2006). Download the article by clicking on the underlined PDF below. […]
History According to Hediger: The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Ry.
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Back in the 1970s Jim Hediger and Model Railroader‘s then new editor, Russ Larson, took a fall trip to ride the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Ry., one of the famous western narrow gauge lines. Jim shares the story, complete with some great photographs […]
Cinerama Rides the California Zephyr
Read about the California Zephyr‘s role in the 1955 widescreen movie Cinerama Holiday in “When Cinerama Rode the C.Z.,” an article from Classic Trains Special Edition No. 1, Dream Trains (2003). Download the story by clicking here. Watch the original remastered Cinerama Holiday trailer. Keep an eye out for the C.Z. at about 3 min […]
An accidental beginning
SP 4229, the cab-forward on which author Anderson was firing as the second engine of a doubleheader when lead engine 4208 threw a rod, hauls L.A.-bound freight 766 up Casamilia Hill on the Coast Line in 1947. Jim Morley As an 18-year-old kid going firing on Southern Pacific’s Coast Division in 1953, my life was […]
Railroading in Maine at 40 below zero
Five years after author Dow’s Bangor & Aroostook experience, in March 1955, a 103-car freight waits at snowy West Seboois, Maine, for a meet with the Aroostook Flyer. Allen A. Sharp The temperature on that February 1950 morning at Oakfield, Maine, was a savage 40 degrees below zero. The sky was clear, with little or […]
Classic Trains, Summer 2013
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