Fall 2024

Classic Trains Fall 2024 issue

Welcome to Firecrown Media

By Craig Fuller

The Smartest, Luckiest Railroad in America

Intermodal shifted the Class I paradigm — Santa Fe style

Milwaukee Road’s Slug Units

They weren’t pretty, but they could pull like crazy

What’s in a Photo: Manufacturers Railway in 1950

Moving America’s commerce near downtown St. Louis

Back Door Change

Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific’s 1984 relocation to Wisconsin

By Train to Eagle Mountain

Richard Steinheimer photographed Kaiser Steel’s California mine and railroad

Passenger Perspective: Late era railroad dining car meals

By the late 1960s, not-so-fine dining ruled the rails

Welcome – The intermodal revolution

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

Fast Mail – Letters from readers on our Summer 2024 issue

Mileposts – Commentary by Kevin P. Keefe

True Color – Contrasts at LaGrange

Sequence – Milwaukee Road mail train

Short Rails – East Jordan & Southern

Classics Today – Santa Fe All The Way

The Way It Was – Tales from railfans and railroaders

Looking Back – Future editor’s first issue