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Classic Trains is a quarterly magazine celebrating the "golden years of railroading." Each issue covers the North American railroad scene from the 1920s to the late 1970s with extraordinary photographs and compelling writing. Giant steam locomotives, colorful streamliners, down-home local trains, great passenger terminals, recollections of railroaders and train-watchers . . . they're all in the pages of Classic Trains.

Feature Articles
E Units: A to 9
By Preston Cook
From the EA of 1937 to the final E9 in 1964, Electro-Motive's 1,300-plus E-series diesels were the locomotive stars of the streamliner era
Martin Blomberg, Streamliner Designer
By Carl R. Byron
The man known for giving the E unit its wheels made major contributions to streamliner design that are now largely forgotten

Read more about Martin Blomberg's work in a PDF of the article "Martin Blomberg, Designer Extraordinaire" by Max Ephraim Jr. in the October 1994 issue of Trains magazine
The Knickerbocker Super Chief
By Michael E. Iden
A chance discovery led to the preservation of an iconic painting and research into the creation of the most famous locomotive color scheme

Read more about the 1937 streamlined Super Chief in a PDF of the article "Crafting the Lightweight Super Chief" by Larry E. Brasher in Classic Trains' special issue, Streamliner Pioneers
Inside an E Unit
By Preston Cook
Beneath their smooth contours, E units housed a complex array of systems
'Better Trains Follow Better Locomotives'
By Gregory Palumbo
Electro-Motive's E-unit advertising targeted the traveling public as well as railroad decision-makers
Exploring the Kansas City Southern
By J. David Ingles
On learning about an unfamiliar pike with a lone streamliner and an unusual E-unit fleet

Read a PDF of Lou Marre's November 1967 Trains article, complete with passenger-car and -diesel rosters, and learn why KCS was optimistic so late in the game
Waterloo to Cedar Rapids on an Open Rear Platform
By Richard J. Anderson
In 1949, a teenage railfan has an interurban adventure
Photo Section
All steam, featuring Illinois Central, Milwaukee Road, East Broad Top, Norfolk & Western, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, Central Vermont
Of Hoops and Markers
By James A. Brown
CPR's Leaside station in Toronto became a railroading classroom
Bird's-Eye View: Portage, Wis.
By Mike Schafer
Milwaukee Road's mid-state division point on a 1950s winter day
Remembering the 'Corkscrew'
By Jim Shaughnessy
Rutland's Chatham Division: close to home, and close to the heart
In Every Issue
Welcome
Enduring excellence
Contributors
Meet this issue's crew
Head End
Light show on Lackawanna Railroad • New Santa Fe cars out East • New York Central portrait
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
Chicago & Illinois Midland 4-4-0 No. 500 in 1952
Fallen Flags Remembered
Take a ride on the Seashore Lines
Classics Today
Extant E units
The Way it Was
Steam 101 • Hi-railing SP's Montpelier Branch • A Young Railfan's "Lucky Mistake"
Car Stop
PCC streetcars in Pittsburgh, before light rail
Ready Track
Reviews of new books and new DVD
Bumping Post
New York Central's Buffalo Central Terminal
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