Fall 2025
Classic Trains Fall 2025 issue

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In this Issue

Photographer Joe Collias caught steam’s last years on the Main Line of Mid-America

How a former interurban survived a tumultuous decade

Tracking operations on a busy main line in the early 1990s

A trip to see PRR GG1 No. 4935 yielded a bounty of East Coast transit and passenger service

From heavyweights to Amtrak, Great Northern’s flagship kept changing

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the Sandusky Line did heavy lifting

Riding on top of postwar passenger trains
Welcome – Never stop learning
Head End – A potpourri of railroad history, then and now
Fast Mail – Letters from our readers
True Color – Rush hour at Kansas City
The Way It Was – Tales from railfans and railroaders
Looking Back – Santa Fe all the way