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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.

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Feature Articles

Rails Across the Lower Lakes

By Steven Duff

Less famous than their Lake Michigan cousins, railroad car ferries sailed Lakes Erie and Ontario for more than half a century

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"Madam, this is Not the Smoking Lounge”

By Alexander J. Stoops Jr

A trip on the Southern’s Asheville Special becomes part of a family’s lore

Disappearing Delta Blues

By Dave Stanley

Rails retreat from the lonely flatlands south of Sacramento

Color from a Black-and-White Pioneer

By Alan Furler

Donald W. Furler helped write the “rules” of action photography in the 1930s and ’40s, then tried color in the ’50s

What's in a Photo?

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

New York Central 4-8-2 westbound at Waterloo, Ind., 1949

Working for the Penn Central

By William E. Botkin

A passion for trains as a college student turned into a brief railroad career

Ingles Color Classics: Santa Fe, all the way to the 1964 Rose Bowl

By J. David Ingles

Rides on AT&SF’s two transcontinental routes opened up new vistas

Best of Everything

By Chris Burger

The Chicago Division was small in mileage but immense in its impact on the C&NW

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Welcome

J. David Ingles, 1941–2020

Head End

A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

Fast Mail

Letters from readers on our Fall 2020 issue

True Color

'Pere Marquette' passing Rougemere

Mileposts

Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe

The Way It Was

Tales from railfans and railroaders

Car Stop

Philly’s boulevard for Bullets

Bumping Post

FEC’s Miami station

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Three stories written and photographed by Jim Shaughnessy.

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