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1st QUARTER 2023: This issue features “New England Nostalgia” with classic images of the Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, and Central Vermont; “Black Gold on the North Fork” that highlights the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s coal branch along the North Fork of the Gunnison River in western Colorado; plus Mike Bednar covers the events leading up to the Central Railroad of New Jersey’s decision to end operations in Pennsylvania in 1972. All this and more in the 1st Quarter 2024 issue of Trains & Railroads of the Past!

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1st Quarter 2024
Issue No. 37

Features

New England Nostalgia

by Gordon Lloyd, Jr. — Classic photography of the B&M, BAR, MEC, CV.

Black Gold from the North Fork

by Robert R. Harmen, D.D.S. — D&RGW’s Incredibly Scenic Coal Branch in Colorado.

A “Custer Decision” The CNJ Retreat (from Pennsylvania)

by Mike Bednar — Jersey Central Leaves the Keystone State in 1972.

 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.