Winter 2025

Classic Trains Winter 2025 issue

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In this Issue

Ed Burkhardt remembers

Reflections on his 65-year career in railroading and still working at it

A letter from “The Chief”

Two friends encounter the Mackinac Straits carferry

Santa Fe through the company lens

AT&SF took pride in top-shelf company photography

That grand old lady

Preservation adventures with a B&O Pullman built in 1918

Rocket science

Central Vermont’s and Boston & Maine’s short-haul piggyback gambit

Passenger Perspective: Twilight of the Domes

Keeping “on top” of what was left of the passenger train world

Welcome – Guest editor: Kevin P. Keefe

Head End – A potpourri of railroad history, then and now

Book ReviewsWhat’s new in railroad publications

True Color – Glass City Geeps

The Way It Was  – VIA cab ride with a twist

Classics Today – A new home for a 2-6-6-2

Looking Back – Transfer passes Tower 55