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THIRD QUARTER 2025: In this issue, Jeffrey Plant presents his 49-day western railfan excursion in 1991 in “Copper, Coal and other Western Treasures.” “Memories of Emmaus Junction” is a vintage look at the action around JA Tower at Emmaus Junction, Pa., with Gale Treiber’s black and white and color photography from the 1950s; Mike Small brings us “1970s Trips to Washington, D.C. and Harrisburg, Pa.” with a focus on electrics; plus Mike Bednar’s latest installment of life on the railroad. All this and more in the Third Quarter 2025 issue of Trains & Railroads of the Past!

Current Issue

Third Quarter 2025
Issue No. 43

Features

Copper, Coal, and other Western Treasures

by Jeffrey Plant — Highlights of a trip around the West in 1991.

JA Tower at Emmaus Junction

by Gale Treiber — Visiting JA Tower in Emmaus in the 1950s.

1970s Trips to Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pa.

by Mike Small — Amtrak Electrics, Early Conrail and more!

From 62 Trains a Day to Two

by Mike Bednar — Changes along the Lehigh River Over the Years.

 DEPARTMENTS

Antiques RailRoadshow — Legacy paint scheme sightings

Car Corner — Unique freight and passenger cars

E.O.T. — A humorous or unusual railroad photograph

Quiz — Test your knowledge

Write-of-Way — Our readers respond!

 PHOTO DEPARTMENTS

Close, But No Cigar! — A photograph that is almost perfect, except for…

Links to the Past — Moments long gone, live on through the lens of a camera

Odds & Endcabs — These are not your typical cookie-cutter locomotives and rolling stock

People — Lively additions to spice up rail photos

Sign Language — Interesting signage found along the right of way

The Scenic Route — Beautiful scenes from around the railroad world

Time Machine — Timeless views of your favorite railroads from long ago or yesterday

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Trains & Railroads of the Past celebrates classic North American railroad heritage of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.