Winter 2019

Winter 2019

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

Feature Articles

End of the Trail

By William P. Diven

Summer trips from New Mexico to Illinois exposed a high-school boy to a world of Midwestern railroading and the final flowering of Santa Fe passenger service

Itinerant Agent

By Walter F. Smith

Tales of working through two world wars and the Depression in New England

Empire of Express

By Jeff Wilson

From baby chicks to reels of film, nearly everything Americans used reached them by Railway Express

Bluefield Survivor

By J. W. Swanberg

Change is on the horizon in the West Virginia coal fields

An All-Star Works the Minor Leagues

By Kevin P. Keefe

J. Parker Lamb photographed short lines with all the passion he brought to portraying the big railroads

Read John Gruber’s “Great Photographers” article on J. Parker Lamb from the Classic Trains Winter 2000 issue.

Seeking Streamliners in 1969

By Bob Johnston

A cross-country drive 50 years ago captured some passenger trains still in their prime and others just barely hanging on

What’s in a Photograph? Shortline mixed, mainline freight

By Jerry A. Pinkepank

Barre & Chelsea and Canadian Pacific trains at Wells River, Vt., July 1946

Overnight to Omaha … in a Dome Coach?

By J. David Ingles

A 1962 excursion on two CB&Q mail trains also yielded photos of unusual UP power

The Best of Everything: “Cheap & Nothing Wasted”

By Chris Burger

A new position with the Chicago & North Western brings a move to Wisconsin

In Every Issue

Welcome

50 years since the ’60s

Head End

Lights, Camera, 4-8-4! • Heritage fever heats up • Reviews of new books • Comparing Burlington obs cars • Rocky Mountain stand-ins • Patch job, 1957-style • Ralph E. Hallock obituary • Ara Mesrobian obituary • Philip L. Moseley obituary • Bob Trennert obituary

Fast Mail

Letters from readers on our Fall 2019 issue

True Color

Seaboard sunshine

Mileposts

Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe on locomotives in disguise

The Way It Was

A Ride on PRR’s Susquehannock • Cajon Standoff • How a Chicago Boy Fell in Love with the New Haven Railroad

Car Stop

Sand Springs Railway

Classics Today

Illinois Railway Museum

Bumping Post

Cincinnati Union Terminal

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