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Like Classic Trains magazine, this forum is devoted to the 1920s–1970s "golden years of railroading." Discussions span everything from steam locomotives to classic streamliners to early diesels.

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surviving turbotrain sets CSSHEGEWISCH replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by lattasnip9	2	970
Forwarding Cars on the Broadway Limited daveklepper replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by NW_611	7	1342
Union Pacific two tone gray Challengers MJChittick replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by ETR_500	3	4781
Holiday travel on named trains Deggesty replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by The Commodore	11	2053
Amtrack locos yankee flyer replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by yankee flyer	5	1211
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The Pennsylvania Railroad In Michigan ValleyX replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by AlcomanRSD	7	7241
Can You Top This Tale? ValleyX replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by dabug	4	1234
American Flyer Pre War Locomotive #572 mersenne6 replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by windermere	1	1821
"Fast Trains" Special Edition No. 7 2009 - Hudsons Article erikem replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by Paul3	3	2014
Chicago LaSalle Street Station in the '50s wjstix replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by ETR_500	20	30228
1936-1937 Hiawatha AF Train wjstix replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by Four-Rail	2	1470
Steam wrecker spikejones52002 replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by wva roots	12	2175
Northern Pacific in Bremerton, WA Road Fan replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by Road Fan	10	4871
Favorite Locomotive Builder henry6 replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 18 years ago by Anonymous	18	3614
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PRR Whistle rogruth replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by zwbob	12	12624
UP-OSL jawbonejon replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by upjake	5	1938
Thank You! Posted 16 years ago by Kootenay Central	0	1263
1960s Northern Pacific Bagehot replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by lattasnip9	30	12095
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"Who Gets To Fargo First?" by Bill Kuebler route_rock replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by The Commodore	3	1650
Casey Jones 1900 Consist wjstix replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by NSlover92	3	1337
Steam-era Lackawanna engineers book henry6 replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by daveklepper	5	1333
Article on PA diesels in latest Classic Trains thumbs Up egmurphy replied to this thread 16 years ago Posted 16 years ago by passengerfan	8	4316
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