CELEBRATE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RAILROADING – WHEN GIANT STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, COLORFUL DIESELS AND STEAMLINERS SHARED THE RAILS. CLASSIC TRAINS COVERS THE 1930’S THROUGH THE 1970’S WITH REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHY, DETAILED REPORTING AND FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS FROM PEOPLE WHO WORKED THE GREAT PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAINS.
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Still has the connections
Classic Trains
HeadEnd • A potpourri of railroad history, then and now
RRHMA: New turntable, café car restoration • BNSF turntable from Cicero, Ill., moved to Silvis shop complex
EBT reopens long-dormant trackage • Train at Friends reunion becomes first to operate on newly restored section of main line
5 traits of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton • See what set this automotive artery apart from its neighboring Rust Belt railroads
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Amtrak Floridian service remembered • The first direct Amtrak service between Florida and the Midwest lasted less than a decade
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READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT: NYC 3001 • We may not have a Hudson, but this Mohawk is the next best thing
Mean-and-green
Challenges & rewards • PHOTOGRAPHING RAILROADS IN THE WINTER
A train-chasing weekend for the books
Michigan Central Station Detroit, between April 1949 and 1951
Chasing steam out West with Hank Griffiths • ONE OF THE DEANS OF NORTHWEST PHOTOGRAPHY TRIES TO STAY AHEAD OF THE DIESEL
RIDING with the CONDUCTOR was my privilege on the Santa Fe • A YOUNG RAILFAN STUDIES THE WANING SANTA FE PASSENGER FLEET FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Dearborn’s Drumheads
CONTEXT IN THE EYES OF A MODELER • JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER MIDWEST IN THE 1950s AND 1960s
MINIATURE MARKETING ENTITIES • WHEN RAILROADS EMPLOYED MODEL TRAINS TO PROMOTE THEMSELVES
‘IC Where It Shouldn’t Be’
The Georgetown Branch • A college encounter with an urban line on borrowed time
Close encounters of the ‘Bo’ kind • The romance of the hobo lifestyle was far from the reality
Surviving New York Central Steam Locomotives • The few, the proud, the preserved
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