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FOURTH QUARTER 2025: This issue features “San Francisco Railfanning 1950–1975” by Gordon Lloyd, Jr., showcasing 25 years of photography spanning cable cars, Muni, the State Belt, and Southern Pacific. Carl Graves returns with “Railfan Memories, Mostly Good Part II,” sharing stories and images from railfanning adventures across the West, Mexico, Chicago, and New England. Mike Bednar explores decades of change along the Lehigh River in “Paradise, Rationalization, A-I, and the Progress of Man,” blending trackside action with behind-the-scenes insights. All this and more in the Fourth 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.