Classic Trains Fall 2020

FEATURE ARTICLES

North to Florida for a Winter Vacation
By Phil Gosney
A young man finds a world of passenger-train action at Jacksonville during a week-long, seven-train tour of the Deep South in late 1968

Steam’s Last Stand in the Twin Cities
By Jeff Terry
Two former Soo Line 0-6-0s kept St. Paul’s fires burning into 1964

Nightfall for Ohio Interurbans
By Art Peterson
Three of the Buckeye State’s last traction lines made a vivid impression after dark

Ingles Color Classics: Alco’s Outlier
By J. David Ingles
The Century 420 was a comparative beauty among beasts

What’s in a Photo?
By Jerry A. Pinkepank
A re-engined MoPac RS3 delivers a car at Sedalia, Mo

Charlie’s Photo Album
By Fred B. Furminger
Railfan/railroader Charles Erler documented the western New York railroad scene in the 1940s

Mountain Brakeman
By Steve Bradley
Ride over CP Rail’s tough Mountain Subdivision in the cab of an SD40-2

Jersey City Sunset
By Brian Solomon
A forest of semaphores kept trains safe at CNJ’s biggest terminal

Archive Treasures: A Passion for Small Railroads
By Kevin P. Keefe
Photographer Fred Springer was drawn to colorful short lines in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

Best of Everything
By Chris Burger
Adventures with North Western’s “F Troop”: Railroaders on C&NW’s former Chicago Great Western lines faced a host of challenges