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Summer 2012 |
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.
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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
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Martin Blomberg, Streamliner Designer By
Carl R. Byron |
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
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'Better Trains Follow Better Locomotives' By
Gregory Palumbo Electro-Motive's E-unit advertising targeted the traveling public as well as railroad decision-makers
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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
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Photo Section All steam, featuring Illinois Central, Milwaukee Road, East Broad Top, Norfolk & Western, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, Central Vermont
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Of Hoops and Markers By
James A. Brown CPR's Leaside station in Toronto became a railroading classroom
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Bird's-Eye View: Portage, Wis. By
Mike Schafer Milwaukee Road's mid-state division point on a 1950s winter day
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Remembering the 'Corkscrew' By
Jim Shaughnessy Rutland's Chatham Division: close to home, and close to the heart
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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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