Classic Trains Winter 2019

Features

End of the TrailBy William P. DivenSummer 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 AgentBy Walter F. SmithTales of working through two world wars and the Depression in New England

Empire of ExpressBy Jeff WilsonFrom baby chicks to reels of film, nearly everything Americans used reached them by Railway Express

Bluefield SurvivorBy J. W. SwanbergChange is on the horizon in the West Virginia coal fields

An All-Star Works the Minor LeaguesBy Kevin P. KeefeJ. Parker Lamb photographed short lines with all the passion he brought to portraying the big railroadsRead John Gruber's "Great Photographers" article on J. Parker Lamb from the Classic Trains Winter 2000 issue.

Seeking Streamliners in 1969By Bob JohnstonA 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 freightBy Jerry A. PinkepankBarre & Chelsea and Canadian Pacific trains at Wells River, Vt., July 1946

Overnight to Omaha ... in a Dome Coach?By J. David InglesA 1962 excursion on two CB&Q mail trains also yielded photos of unusual UP power

The Best of Everything: "Cheap & Nothing Wasted"By Chris BurgerA new position with the Chicago & North Western brings a move to Wisconsin