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Preview Classic Trains‘ November 2023

Preview Classic Trains‘ November 2023

By Brian Schmidt | October 1, 2023

Preview Classic Trains‘ November 2023 content! Here’s a preview of what’s coming in the next month. Become a Trains.com member so you don’t miss any of this great content! If you have a story suggestion, email editor@classictrainsmag.com

 

Smallest operating railroads in 1973

Centercab diesel locomotive in front of engine shed
The smallest operating railroads often had oddball motive power – whatever their traffic could support. This 1940 Atlas centercab diesel switcher served on Rhode Island’s Warwick Railroad. Milt Silvia photo

These 5 small railroads each operated just 2 mile of main line or less – and made a business of it!

 

New York Central’s famed Mohawks

Steam locomotive with freight train.
A New York Central 4-8-2 Mohawk is westbound with freight on the four-track main line east of Elkhart, Ind., sometime in the 1940s. C. W. Jernstrom

What’s not to love about a locomotive that refused to abdicate?

 

Fairbanks-Morse H20-44: A Diesel That Didn’t

Pittsburgh & Western Virginia Fairbanks-Morse H20-44s in West Virginia
Two Pittsburgh & Western Virginia Fairbanks-Morse H20-44s lead 81-car train 92 into Louise, W.Va., in March 1950. P&WV completely dieselized its road trains with the Fairbanks-Morse units, sending all seven of its 2-6-6-4s to scrap. J. J. Young Jr. photo

It was a different design with too much horsepower for its time

 

NJ Transit GE U34CH diesel locomotives

Black locomotive with gray stripe
Erie Lackawanna U34CH No. 3372 at Secaucus, N.J., in 1971 Pete Klapper photo

General Electric U34CH diesel locomotives helped modernize commuter rail operations in northern New Jersey

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