Winter 2019

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

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

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

Change is on the horizon in the West Virginia coal fields

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.

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

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

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

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