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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Classic Trains

Head End • A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

Fast Mail • Letters from readers on our Summer 2022 issue

Over-under in ‘OKC’

For Steinheimer, it all started in Glendale • Western photo great’s personal archives donated to CRP&A

Remembering CN’s Super Continental • Always the bridesmaid, never the bride

Perishable Protective Service • WORKING FOR THE ROCK ISLAND WAS AN ADVENTURE WORTHY OF JACK WEBB

SEND TO: 1100 EAST MAIN CROSS ST. • FINDLAY, OHIO, WAS HOME TO KODAK’S PREMIER PROCESSING LAB, AND A MENAGERIE OF RAILROADS

EMBRACING THE EVERYDAY • FRED SPRINGER PHOTOGRAPHS CLASS I RAILROADING IN THE 1950S AND ‘60S

British Rail 4-6-2 ‘Dwight D. Eisenhower’ at Jersey City • A celebrity arrival on our shores is seen with Reading’s Wall Street May 12, 1964

THIRD TRICK AT ATHENS, PA. • THINGS GO SMOOTHLY FOR A RELIEF LEHIGH VALLEY TOWERMAN – UNTIL THEY DON’T

REMEMBERING A Razorback Country RAMBLE • Visiting 16 Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi short lines on a 1972 trip

The runaway train that didn’t • Snowplow duty on the electrifed Milwaukee was dangerous — but it could have been worse

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