Classic Trains Fall 2016

Second Chance at Steam
By Bob Trennert and Gordon Glattenberg
Two teenagers living in dieselized Los Angeles thought they'd missed their shot at Southern Pacific steam — until they discovered it was still on the job around the Bay Area

Beebe & Clegg Ride the Rio Grande Southern
By John Gruber
Two pioneering rail photographers bring New York society to the Colorado back country

Ingles Color Classics: Southern Exposure
By J. David Ingles
Nine months in Knoxville was a culture shift, but productive

Bird's-Eye View: GN's Allouez ore docks at Superior, Wis.
By Eric Hirsimaki
Four massive structures at Superior, Wis., loaded over a billion tons of iron ore

Tough Trip from Oneonta
By Bernie O'Brien
Engineer and fireman team to overcome a huge clinker on a superb Delaware & Hudson 2-8-0 in 1950

Penn Station Playground
By Ira Silverman
A boy learns about the wider railroad world during early-1960s afternoons at the PRR's great New York terminal
Listen to a recording from 1963 of train announcements at Penn Station, New York, from the archives of Semaphore Records.

What's in a Photograph? Over/under at Fort Worth, March 1970
By Jerry A. Pinkepank
Rock Island power from El Reno goes to tie up as a Missouri Pacific train passes overhead

Vagabonds of the Pere Marquette
By Kevin P. Keefe
Chesapeake & Ohio abruptly ended steam in Michigan, but not before sending PM 2-8-4s to coal country

Splendid Isolation: CN on Prince Edward Island
By Jim Shaughnessy
For 114 years, Canada's smallest province hosted a seeming 1-to-1 scale model railroad