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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.
We all have our Troys
North Shore Line at Milwaukee
Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern
1946: Dream Trains, Diesels, and Demobilization
A South Bend Tradition, by J. David Ingles • My "Bad-Luck" Engine, by Jack O. Elwood • Mrs. White's Final Journey, by Steven Duff • A Peach of a "Zephyr"
Birneys at Independence, Kans.
Vista-Dome debut on the GM&O
St. Louis Union Station
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