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Summer 2008

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Southern Pacific Steam - Commuters

Video: Southern Pacific Steam

In the Summer 2008 issue of Classic Trains magazine we follow SP's Coast Line from Los Angeles to San Jose in 1954. See movie clips of SP steam in action from the new Herron Rail Video programs "Southern Pacific Steam, Vols. 1 and 2." The original footage was 8mm sound film shot by Joseph Schmitz.

J Parker Lamb

A native of Alabama, Lamb photographed railroads throughout the Deep South in the early 1950s at a time when steam was giving way to diesel. Click the link above to read more about this legendary photographer.

Classic Steam Video Samples

Trains.com has partnered with A-Trains.com to share video samples of steam locomotives in action from videos and DVDs produced by Railway Productions.

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Classic Trains is a quarterly magazine celebrating the "golden years of railroading." It covers the North American railroad scene from the late 1920s to the late 1970s. Proud steam giants, colorful streamliners, great passenger terminals, down-home local trains, timeworn cabooses, recollections of railroaders and train-watchers . . . they're all in the pages of Classic Trains.