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

Steam returns to Western Maryland

New from Kalmbach

Kansas (City) Pacifics

Reviews

Diesels that didn’t: Alco C415 • Customization was no cure for this Alco’s anemic sales

Fast Mail • Letters from readers on our Winter 2021 issue

GG1 top shot

Buffalo’s Blizzard of ‘77 remembered

A fan for life?

A champion of word and photo • Don Sims captured the essence of the West

Suburban stalwarts • WHEN TANK ENGINES RULED THE COMMUTER ROUTES

THE LAST OF THE BRASS POUNDERS • Learning a dying craft was the first step to becoming a dispatcher on the Canadian Pacific

The Dakota 400 at its Zenith • A DETAILED LOOK AT A LESS FAMOUS COUSIN OF THE 400

Apple Hill RAILROADING • TWO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LUMBER SHORT LINES ARE LONG ON HISTORY

THE BEST DAY EVER • A TREK FOR UP STEAM IN WYOMING CREATES TWO BOOK-COVER PHOTOS

Train time at Townsend • Memories of a simpler time on a Boston & Maine branch

Trekking on the Erie • TWO TEENAGERS EXPLORE THE ERIE IN NEW JERSEY … ON FOOT!

Milwaukee Road at Watertown, Wis., c. 1947 • Olympian Hiawatha’s second section, hurrying express reefers west, takes coal and water

Southern Swing 1968 • AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF PASSENGER TRAINS NOT RIDDEN PROMPTS A CONVOLUTED CIRCLE TRIP

The coal dock at Wanatah • A Pennsy fireman recalls the quirks of an Indiana steamera landmark

Honorary Steam Locomotive • A Penn Central RS3 acts like a coal-burner

Just one more move • Racing to get the job done results in a not-so-early quit for one locomotive crew

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