Firecrown Classic Trains Magazine Fall 2025

The past is back in Classic Trains, the quarterly magazine celebrating the historic "golden years" of North American railroading. In Classic Trains, you'll take a trip back and rediscover the railroads, trains, and people who worked the rails from the 1920s to the '70s. You'll relive the days of powerful steam locomotives, vintage diesels, flashy streamliners and more.

FEATURES:

• 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