Classic Trains Spring 2016

Wyoming Steam Parade
By R. Clifford Black IV
In 1953, a boy and his dad thrilled to the constant mainline action of Union Pacific's Big Boys, Challengers, and Northerns

What's in a Photograph? Double RS2s on the Laurentian
By Jerry A. Pinkepank
Delaware & Hudson's Montreal—New York City day train pulls into Plattsburgh, N.Y., on August 10, 1957

Left on the Drawing Board — CN Steam
By Kevin J. Holland
The lightweight Prairies and Mikados that never were

Waiting Your Turn
By Steve Patterson
Sometimes, diamonds are not a passenger's best friend

Breaking in at Maitland
By David Birckbichler
In 1973 at an Ohio tower, a rookie EL operator catches both a good break and a bad one

Calamity at Glenita
By Ron Flanary
Southern Railway learned some lessons in technology from a 1968 Virginia coal train pile-up

3 Photographers on The Hill
By Tom Gildersleeve
Different perspectives of a train cresting Donner Pass
 
Travels with Earl
By Ed King
An express messenger on N&W's Abingdon Branch gave his grandson the gift of railroading

Ingles Color Classics: Delray Days
By J. David Ingles
Action at the heart of Detroit railroading a half century ago

Bird's-Eye View: Lehigh Valley in Downtown Hazleton, Pa.
By Richard W. Jahn
A gas-electric waits for a steam train to clear the depot track in 1950

Journey to Naptown
By Charlie Ardery
A trip in a drawing room on PRR's Spirit of St. Louis remains a treasured memory