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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Still has the connections

Classic Trains

HeadEnd • A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

RRHMA: New turntable, café car restoration • BNSF turntable from Cicero, Ill., moved to Silvis shop complex

EBT reopens long-dormant trackage • Train at Friends reunion becomes first to operate on newly restored section of main line

5 traits of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton • See what set this automotive artery apart from its neighboring Rust Belt railroads

Reviews

Amtrak Floridian service remembered • The first direct Amtrak service between Florida and the Midwest lasted less than a decade

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READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT: NYC 3001 • We may not have a Hudson, but this Mohawk is the next best thing

Mean-and-green

Challenges & rewards • PHOTOGRAPHING RAILROADS IN THE WINTER

A train-chasing weekend for the books

Michigan Central Station Detroit, between April 1949 and 1951

Chasing steam out West with Hank Griffiths • ONE OF THE DEANS OF NORTHWEST PHOTOGRAPHY TRIES TO STAY AHEAD OF THE DIESEL

RIDING with the CONDUCTOR was my privilege on the Santa Fe • A YOUNG RAILFAN STUDIES THE WANING SANTA FE PASSENGER FLEET FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Dearborn’s Drumheads

CONTEXT IN THE EYES OF A MODELER • JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER MIDWEST IN THE 1950s AND 1960s

MINIATURE MARKETING ENTITIES • WHEN RAILROADS EMPLOYED MODEL TRAINS TO PROMOTE THEMSELVES

‘IC Where It Shouldn’t Be’

The Georgetown Branch • A college encounter with an urban line on borrowed time

Close encounters of the ‘Bo’ kind • The romance of the hobo lifestyle was far from the reality

Surviving New York Central Steam Locomotives • The few, the proud, the preserved

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