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.

Be careful for what you wish

Classic Trains

HeadEnd • A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

East Broad Top sells out Winter Spectacular

Genesee Valley Transportation acquires Alco PA locomotive

Minnesota museum to repaint Great Northern diesel

Northwest Railway Museum to preserve Talgo Bistro car

Biggest 4-6-2 Pacific: Omaha Road’s E-3 class

Baldwin Centipede locomotives — Diesels That Didn’t

Union Pacific express boxcar

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KALMBACHI HOBBY STORE

More Furler photography

Railroads that live “forever”… on paper • Three examples show that the past isn’t always past

Toronto three-in-one

CALIFORNIA CHRONICLES • THROUGHOUT THE FIFTIES, PALS BOB TOWNLEY AND WALT VIELBAUM RECORDED A NOW-LOST WORLD OF STEAM, DIESEL, AND TRACTION

Northeast Nostalgia • THREE RAILFANS TOOK A ROAD TRIP IN 1968. THEY HAD NO IDEA HOW EPIC IT WOULD BE.

HOW A RIVER MADE A RAILROAD GREAT • THE PORT ROAD GAVE THE PENNSY THE LOW-GRADE LINE IT NEEDED

Port Road 1946 • OBSERVATIONS ON A FAMOUS PENNSYLVANIA MAIN LINE FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CAB

Ed Burkhardt and the ALL-AMERICAN REGIONAL RAILROAD • WISCONSIN CENTRAL’S CO-FOUNDER EXPLAINS ITS APPEAL

Pennsylvania steel-making road

Zephyr 9900 and its shiny legacy • The original stainless-steel streamliner sparked a railroad revolution

Mark Twain rides the rails, soon • Post covid supply delays have slowed restoration

GET YOUR TRAINS ALL ACCESS PASS…

A moment on the Milwaukee Road • Ode to the long-lost station agent

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