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Summer 2005

Summer 2005

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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Glory Days: MARCH SADNESS

By Robert S. McGonigal

Thoughts on the last run of the California Zephyr, with a color photo on the Western Pacific.

The Trains of Troy

By William D. Middleton

For a group of college buddies in the late 1940's, the Albany-Troy-Schenectady area of New York State was a train-watcher's paradise; with 26 black-and-white photos.

The Secret Borax Train

By Don Richardson

When a Santa Fe engineer took a mysterious midnight call in 1974, he figured he was in for an adventure-and he was right.

Bird's-Eye View: Three Depots in the South

Aerial views of Atlantic Coast Line's Wilmington (N.C.) headquarters; Central Station in Memphis, Tenn.; and the Texas & Pacific/Missouri Pacific terminal in New Orleans.

From Buffalo Limiteds to Hoboken Commuters

By Bert Pennypacker

Lackawanna's last new steam power was a quintet of powerful, fast Hudsons.

Photo Section

Color views of Southern Pacific narrow-gauge steam; early EMD switchers and road-switchers on CN, Burlington, B&O, and Monon; and Wabash and Milwaukee Road Pacifics

Executive Recruiter

By Chris Burger

A retired official recalls how a New Haven engineer got him into the railroad game.

One Day at . . . Joliet, Ill.

By George W. Hamlin

Rock Island, GM&O, Santa Fe, and Amtrak action at a Chicago-area crossroads in November 1971; with 13 color photos.

Great Photographers: William Moedinger, A True Pioneer

By Kurt R. Bell

From Eastern trolleys and short lines to the Colorado narrow-gauges, a former Pullman conductor captured the railroad scene on film for more than 70 years; with 14 black-and-white photos.

A Ride on the Tennessee

By Denny Hamilton

Memories of a thrilling RS1 ride on a coal-hauling short line in 1973; with 11 color photos.

Departments

Editor's Page

We all have our Troys

True Color

North Shore Line at Milwaukee

Fallen Flags Remembered

Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern

A Classic Year

1946: Dream Trains, Diesels, and Demobilization

The Way It Was

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"