Classic Trains Winter 2020

FEATURE ARTICLES

Rails Across the Lower Lakes
By Steven Duff
Less famous than their Lake Michigan cousins, railroad car ferries sailed Lakes Erie and Ontario for more than half a century

"Madam, this is Not the Smoking Lounge”
By Alexander J. Stoops Jr
A trip on the Southern’s Asheville Special becomes part of a family’s lore

Disappearing Delta Blues
By Dave Stanley
Rails retreat from the lonely flatlands south of Sacramento

Color from a Black-and-White Pioneer
By Alan Furler
Donald W. Furler helped write the “rules” of action photography in the 1930s and ’40s, then tried color in the ’50s

What's in a Photo?
By Jerry A. Pinkepank
New York Central 4-8-2 westbound at Waterloo, Ind., 1949

Working for the Penn Central
By William E. Botkin
A passion for trains as a college student turned into a brief railroad career

Ingles Color Classics: Santa Fe, all the way to the 1964 Rose Bowl
By J. David Ingles
Rides on AT&SF’s two transcontinental routes opened up new vistas

Best of Everything
By Chris Burger
The Chicago Division was small in mileage but immense in its impact on the C&NW