Editors Note: Tour 904 was made up of Scouts from El Paso, Midland, Abilene, and East Texas. The train carried 576 passengers with two baggage cars, one baggage dormitory car, and eleven coaches supplied by the Texas & Pacific Railroad. It arrived at Port Kennedy, Pa., adjacent to Valley Forge State Park, on Thursday, July […]
Section: Rosters
Online Bonus: “The case of the elusive C-Liners”
The Spring 2005 issue of Classic Trains includes two stories regarding Fairbanks-Morse’s C-Line diesels: “A new dress for opposed pistons” (page 52) and “Why to C-Line fell on its face” (page 56). As an online bonus, we’ve scanned an article from the July 1972 issue of TRAINS magazine called “The case of the elusive C-Liners”. […]
The General
Pennsylvania Railroad’s coast-to-coast air-rail service, run jointly with the Santa Fe and Trancontinental Air Transport, was championed by PRR president Gen. William Wallace Atterbury. (A promotional video clip of that service is available on our site. See the link at the bottom of this story.) The Winter 2003 issue of Classic Trains magazine takes an […]
Marketing the Golden State Limited
By 1919, a three-orange logo had replaced the single piece of fruit that adorned the covers of Golden State travel booklets. The lavish title page of a 1902 Rock Island route guide to its new cross-country passenger train, the Golden State Limited. Rock Island and Southern Pacific inaugurated the train on November 2, 1902. “Every […]
Carolina circle
Seaboard’s coach-only mail train, No. 5, at Hamlet, N.C., behind E7 3041 and SDP35 1113. J. David Ingles It’s 300 miles from Knoxville, Tenn., to Raleigh, N.C., as the crow flies. But Classic Trains senior editor J. David Ingles parlayed a round trip between the two cities to 1039 miles on a spring weekend in […]
Ready to serve the nation
Here’s a variation on a familiar World War II theme, the diverse geographical backgrounds of men serving together in the armed forces. It comes to us in the form of some faded sheet music dedicated to the Military Railway Service. The rousing anthem “Railroaders Always” is of interest in its own right, but the cover […]
The ways to and from Denver
In the Fall 2001 issue of Classic Trains magazine, Senior Editor Dave Ingles recounts his train trip to and from Denver in May 1967. His detailed notes of train consists and time-keeping of arrivals and departures are presented here. May 11, 1967 IC #21, Green Diamond, Springfield, Ill.-St. LouisIC 4023 E8AIC 4109 E9B CofG 812 […]
The Frisco in photographs
In the “Fallen Flags Remembered” section of the Spring 2001 CLASSIC TRAINS magazine, author Mike Condren reminisces about the St. Louis-San Francisco. Here we present a selection of Frisco photos. Alex L. H. Darragh Seen from an eastbound train stopped in a siding, Mountain type 1505 and another engine doublehead a westbound passenger train at […]
