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.

The intermodal revolution

Classic Trains

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HeadEnd • A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

Flying Yankee Association to purchase Budd streamliner • Details of transfer of 1935 articulated trainset still to be completed

Great Northern 4-6-2 restoration launched • Sioux City museum marks joint effort to return GN 1355 to operation

Largest 2-8-2 Mikado: Great Northern’s O-8 class • Homebuilt locomotives from the depths of the Depression took the type to its limit

New Jersey cousins • I’ve enjoyed reading the Summer issue. The Don Wood photo on the inside back cover of Pennsylvania Railroad K4s 3678 and GG1 4913 took my breath away. I grew up in Hackensack and made a few trips to South Amboy, N.J., as a teenager when time and allowance allowed, including October 1956. I wish that I’d been able to visit more often but I’m grateful for the few photographs that I have, none as fine as Don Wood’s.

Why Michigan Central Station matters • Turning back the clock on a landmark

Contrasts at LaGrange

The SMARTEST, LUCKIEST railroad in America • SHIFTING THE PARADIGM — SANTA FE STYLE

MILWAUKEE ROAD’S slug units

Manufacturers Railway in 1950

BACK DOOR CHANGE • DULUTH, WINNIPEG & PACIFIC’S 1984 RELOCATION

By train to Eagle Mountain • RICHARD STEINHEIMER PHOTOGRAPHED KAISER STEEL’S MINE AND RAILROAD

Milwaukee Road mail train

GRANDPA and the UNION PACIFIC

Late era railroad dining car meals • By the late 1960s, not-so-fine dining ruled the rails

East Jordan & Southern

Santa Fe all the way • Visit these landmarks from the Midwest to California

How to make yourself the “dumbest (epithet deleted)” on the railroad • A locked door almost ended two trainmen’s careers

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