Fall 2025

Classic Trains Fall 2025 issue

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Finale for Illinois Central steam

Photographer Joe Collias caught steam’s last years on the Main Line of Mid-America

Catastrophe at Milepost 21

How a former interurban survived a tumultuous decade

Dispatching Santa Fe’s Arizona Division

Tracking operations on a busy main line in the early 1990s

A Seventies USA Rail Pass Adventure

A trip to see PRR GG1 No. 4935 yielded a bounty of East Coast transit and passenger service

The Evolution of the Empire Builder

From heavyweights to Amtrak, Great Northern’s flagship kept changing

Superhighway For Iron Ore

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the Sandusky Line did heavy lifting

Classic Railroad Dome Cars

Riding on top of postwar passenger trains

Welcome – Never stop learning

Head End – A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

Fast Mail – Letters from our readers

True Color – Rush hour at Kansas City

The Way It Was – Tales from railfans and railroaders

Looking Back – Santa Fe all the way

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