Classic Trains reaches the bumper post
The Spring 2026 issue of Classic Trains, which has arrived in subscriber mailboxes, will be the final standalone issue of…
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At the dawn of the 20th century, dusk was approaching for the narrow gauge (3 feet or smaller between the…
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With the general speed-up of passenger train schedules in the 1920s, the need arose for a more powerful version of…
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In the 1890s, the Gotthard Railway in Switzerland operated the first Mallet locomotives. They were compound articulated locomotives developed by,…
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During the latter half of the 1920s the single expansion articulated locomotive had evolved into a very capable machine. It…
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It isn’t much of a stretch to proclaim the 2-8-4 Berkshire-type steam locomotive as the “poster child” of the Super…
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In 1940, the Chesapeake & Ohio needed new locomotives to meet a burgeoning demand for transportation. Its biggest engines were…
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A scant three years after Alco introduced the Mallet to America (with the delivery of B&O’s sole 0-6-6-0 in 1904),…
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To say that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (Rock Island) was in a financial slump by the 1930s…
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In 1928, the Northern Pacific went shopping for a locomotive that could eliminate doubleheading on the eastern end of its…
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The New York Central System was a vast and legendary railroad, connecting the East Coast to the Mississippi River. A…
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Railroads with cumbersome names that can be a mouthful to say and a headache to remember often opted for nicknames.…
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