Classic Trains

CELEBRATE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RAILROADING – WHEN GIANT STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, COLORFUL DIESELS AND STEAMLINERS SHARED THE RAILS. CLASSIC TRAINS COVERS THE 1930’S THROUGH THE 1970’S WITH REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHY, DETAILED REPORTING AND FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS FROM PEOPLE WHO WORKED THE GREAT PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS.

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50 years since the ’60s

Classic Trains

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Reviews

Surprise in Upper Michigan • Letters from readers on our Fall 2019 issue

Seaboard sunshine

Big steam in disguise • Southern 4501’s recent turn as “L&N 1593” is the latest in a long line of transformations

End of the trail • Summer trips from New Mexico to Illinois exposed a high-school boy to a world of Midwestern railroading and the final flowering of Santa Fe passenger service

Itinerant agent • Tales of working through two world wars and the Depression in New England

Empire of express • FROM BABY CHICKS TO REELS OF FILM, NEARLY EVERYTHING AMERICANS USED REACHED THEM BY RAILWAY EXPRESS

BLUEFIELD SURVIVOR

An all-star works the minor leagues • J. Parker Lamb photographed short lines with all the passion he brought to portraying the big railroads

Seeking streamliners in1969 • A CROSS-COUNTRY DRIVE 50 YEARS AGO CAPTURED SOME PASSENGER TRAINS STILL IN THEIR PRIME AND OTHERS JUST BARELY HANGING ON

Shortline mixed, mainline freight • Barre & Chelsea and Canadian Pacific trains at Wells River, Vt., July 1946

Overnight to Omaha… in a dome coach? • A 1962 excursion on two CB&Q mail trains also yielded photos of unusual UP power

“Cheap & Nothing Wasted” • A new position with the Chicago & North Western brings a move to Wisconsin

A ride on PRR’s Susquehannock • A 14-year-old’s first solo long-distance train trip was an adventure to remember

Cajon standoff • Amtrak’s Desert Wind gets caught in a jam on a key California artery

How a Chicago boy fell in love with the New Haven Railroad • A toy train set sparked a fascination that was nurtured by an enthusiastic public-relations executive

WEST OF CUMBERLAND

Widows, orphans, and trolleys

Prairie State powerhouse • Illinois Railway Museum operates steam, diesel, and electric trains at one of the nation’s top rail-preservation sites

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