Classic Trains Fall 2016

Second Chance at SteamBy Bob Trennert and Gordon Glattenberg Two teenagers living in dieselized Los Angeles thought they'd missed their shot at Southern Pacific steam — until they discovered it was still on the job around the Bay AreaBeebe & Clegg Ride the Rio Grande Southern By John Gruber Two pioneering rail photographers bring New York society to the Colorado back country Ingles Color Classics: Southern ExposureBy J. David Ingles Nine months in Knoxville was a culture shift, but productive Bird's-Eye View: GN's Allouez ore docks at Superior, Wis.By Eric Hirsimaki Four massive structures at Superior, Wis., loaded over a billion tons of iron ore Tough Trip from OneontaBy Bernie O'Brien Engineer and fireman team to overcome a huge clinker on a superb Delaware & Hudson 2-8-0 in 1950 Penn Station PlaygroundBy Ira Silverman A boy learns about the wider railroad world during early-1960s afternoons at the PRR's great New York terminalListen to a recording from 1963 of train announcements at Penn Station, New York, from the archives of Semaphore Records. What's in a Photograph? Over/under at Fort Worth, March 1970By Jerry A. Pinkepank Rock Island power from El Reno goes to tie up as a Missouri Pacific train passes overhead Vagabonds of the Pere MarquetteBy Kevin P. Keefe Chesapeake & Ohio abruptly ended steam in Michigan, but not before sending PM 2-8-4s to coal country Splendid Isolation: CN on Prince Edward IslandBy Jim Shaughnessy For 114 years, Canada's smallest province hosted a seeming 1-to-1 scale model railroad