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The 124-page special issue, Great Trains Freight, revisits the classic age of railroading when freight trains carried America to unprecedented prosperity. Read about way freights, coal trains, and hotshots on the nation’s great railroads, including the Santa Fe, Milwaukee Road, Pennsylvania, Illinois Central, and more. Order your copy today » […]
Feature Articles Hudson Valley Hot Spot By David W. Salter Summer 1952 was the perfect time for steam and diesel variety on New York Central’s Hudson Division See video clips from the Sunday River Productions archives of New York Central steam in action. “Somebody’ll die on you, for sure!” By Chuck Larrabee A prediction from […]
Feature Articles Second Chance at Steam By Bob Trennert and Gordon Glattenberg Two teenagers living in dieselized Los Angeles thought they’d missed their shot at Southern Pacific steam — until they discovered it was still on the job around the Bay Area Watch film footage from the Herron Rail Video archives of Southern Pacific steam […]
Great Trains Heartland covers the golden age of rail travel when luxurious streamliners raced across the American Midwest. This special collectors edition honors these great trains with fresh layouts and new photos, including rare color images. Order your copy today » […]
Explore the great passenger trains that roamed the vast lands west of Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans. This 124-page, large-format collectors edition recalls the era when fleets of colorful streamliners dashed across the plains and snaked through the mountains of the American West. Order your copy today » […]
Feature Articles A Century of Catenary By Frank Tatnall The Main Line west of Philadelphia — the first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s empire under wire — has been a grand stage for electric traction since 1915 View photos related to the PRR’s network of electrified lines. Ingles Color Classics: Monon Moments: Riding the Route, […]
More Trains of the 1950s features an all-new collection of articles that haven’t been printed in more than 50 years, plus: Stories from iconic journalist David P. Morgan, among other notable authors. Photos from Philip R. Hastings, Wallace W. Abbey, and other great photographers of that era. Coverage of all major themes of 1950s railroading. Order […]
Feature Articles F Units, T to 9 By Preston Cook A chronology of dieseldom’s most famous family, from the FT to the FL9, plus some units that were planned but never built Watch clips from F Units in Action, a VHS program released in 2000 by Kalmbach Publishing Co. Marketing and Delivering the FT By […]
Feature Articles Nickel-Plated Glory By Jim Shaughnessy In 1957, the fabled 2-8-4s were still in command of fast freights along Lake Erie See more of Jim Shaughnessy’s March 1957 photos of Nickel Plate Berkshires in action. Amtrak’s GG1 That Might Have Been By Denny Hamilton After a few GG1s received Amtrak’s garish new paint scheme, […]
The 1940s began with the railroad industry fulfilling its moral duty by aiding the World War II effort. Railroads handled a surge of freight and passenger traffic with an attitude of servitude and austerity, and the era soon became regarded as “railroading’s finest hour.” Order Now » […]
In the 1970s, problems that had challenged the railroad industry for decades came to a head. In that tumultuous final decade of classic-era railroading, vintage diesels carried the torch one last time, the echoes of the great streamliners faded away, and a beleaguered yet resilient industry coped with crisis. Trains of the 1970s explores this […]
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 […]
