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.

Pennsy perspective

Classic Trains

HeadEnd • A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

OBITUARIES

EMC’s TA: A Locomotive That Kind of Didn’t • An early passenger diesel, the TA was a Rock Island oddity

The year in railway preservation • Big bucks for big buildings were a theme in 2023

Most distinctive articulated: SP cab-forward • Latter-day cab-forwards ended up operating over virtually the entire Southern Pacific system

Reviews

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ALL NEW!

Fast Mail • Letters from readers on our Winter 2023 issue

Passenger corridor revivals I’d love to see • It’s fun to dream about what’s possible

Mighty Maumee

FOR THE LOVE OF PENNSY • RECOLLECTIONS OF TEENAGE RAILFANS IN NEW JERSEY

IPD BOXCARS of the 1970s • SPECIAL RATES CREATED A SPLASH OF COLORFUL CARS ROAMING THE RAILS

Class I, II, and III railroads

Railbox

Tender Boosters on the Boston & Maine and Maine Central

EXTRA 493 & 497 EAST • DIGGING DEEPER INTO A MEMORABLE TRAINS PHOTO ESSAY

Gem State steam gems • UNION PACIFIC PROVIDED A FINE STEAM SHOW IN IDAHO IN 1953

LONDON CALLING • ONE RAILFAN’S ENCOUNTERS WITH GMDD’S DIESEL BIRTHPLACE

F59s in service

Milwaukee Road’s Hiawatha fleet stands out • Built in the railroad’s Milwaukee Shops, the Hiawatha fleet lasted until the start of Amtrak

Manufacturers Railway Co.

An ear for trains • Close encounters of the first kind with EMD’s new turbocharged GP30s in 1963

Loose-car railroading • A usually quiet day turns memorable on the Espee in 1977

NextIssue

New Jersey Railway preservation • See these sights when you visit the Garden State

A place called ‘1027’