Classic Trains Winter 2020

FEATURE ARTICLESRails Across the Lower LakesBy Steven DuffLess famous than their Lake Michigan cousins, railroad car ferries sailed Lakes Erie and Ontario for more than half a century"Madam, this is Not the Smoking Lounge”By Alexander J. Stoops JrA trip on the Southern’s Asheville Special becomes part of a family’s loreDisappearing Delta BluesBy Dave StanleyRails retreat from the lonely flatlands south of SacramentoColor from a Black-and-White PioneerBy Alan FurlerDonald W. Furler helped write the “rules” of action photography in the 1930s and ’40s, then tried color in the ’50sWhat's in a Photo?By Jerry A. PinkepankNew York Central 4-8-2 westbound at Waterloo, Ind., 1949

Working for the Penn CentralBy William E. BotkinA passion for trains as a college student turned into a brief railroad career

Ingles Color Classics: Santa Fe, all the way to the 1964 Rose BowlBy J. David InglesRides on AT&SF’s two transcontinental routes opened up new vistasBest of EverythingBy Chris BurgerThe Chicago Division was small in mileage but immense in its impact on the C&NW