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Winter 2009

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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.

Contents

Cannon Ball Runs
On riding Wabash's storied route through America's heartland
By J. David Ingles
Twilight Encounter at Danville
A vivid memory of Southern Ps-4 Pacifics in Virginia, 70 years ago. See video of Ps-4's in action
By John C. Watkins Jr.
Our "National Locomotive"
How Southern Ps-4 1401 came to reside in the Smithsonian
By Bill Withuhn
The Shaughnessy Files: The Great Shop at Colonie
Where, for eight decades, Delaware & Hudson employees repaired locomotives. See Jim's "Fallen Flags Remembered" essay on the D&H
By Jim Shaughnessy
Bird's-Eye View: The Colonie Complex
There was more to the D&H's facility than just the engine backshop
Great Photographers: Donald Duke
A remarkable career-far more than rail photos and book publishing
By Michael Patris
One Day at . . . Collinwood, Ohio
An August 1964 hunt for New York Central FT's yielded a lot more
By J. David Ingles
Of Hoops and Forks
Helping Mom, a Santa Fe operator in Arizona, during wartime
By Charles W. Lindenberg
Recollections of a Tour Conductor
Leading sightseers by rail across the country during 1958-1961. See a list of the trains Jim rode and read his thoughts about some special moments on the Santa Fe
By Jim Neubauer

Departments

Editor's Page
Tour conductors: Part crew, part passenger
Contributors
Meet this issue's crew
Head End
Items from railroad history, then and now
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
A rainy day on CN at Stratford, Ont., in 1958
Fallen Flags Remembered
Bangor & Aroostook, by Jerry Angier
Workin' on the Railroad
All smiles on an NYC J-3a 4-6-4
The Way It Was
Hot-Metal Trains on the Erie • W. A. Eby: PRR Engineman and Foster Dad • Growing Up Along the Burlington • Milwaukee Road Steam-Electric Handoff • Boarding the L&N at Guthrie
Car Stop
Indiana steel-town streetcars-Gary Railways
Ready Track
Brief reviews of recent "classic era" railroad books
Second Section
More Collinwood and Colonie, plus Haggard and Thrall
Bumping Post
Erie Railroad’s Jersey City terminal
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