Trains magazine covers the broad spectrum of railroading with authoritative content, dazzling photography, and a mix of content designed to appeal to everyone from the casual enthusiast to the seasoned professional railroader.
Trains offers something for everyone who has a spark for railroading: Railroad news, insight, and commentary on today’s freight railroads, passenger service, transit, locomotives, technology, preservation, fan opportunities, and more. You’ll also see images and read stories from railroading’s glorious past, and explore the bright future of railroading. It’s all in the pages of Trains magazine.
Trains offers something for everyone who has a spark for railroading: Railroad news, insight, and commentary on today’s freight railroads, passenger service, transit, locomotives, technology, preservation, fan opportunities, and more. You’ll also see images and read stories from railroading’s glorious past, and explore the bright future of railroading. It’s all in the pages of Trains magazine.
Features
Horseshoe Curve: 150 years
The hill, the shop town, the locomotives, the four-track main, the fascination – complete with incredible fold-outs
Rio Grande commodities
What is inside those cars, anyway? Products of the earth hauled by the Rio Grande: Where it goes, what it’s used for, and why it matters
Map of the Month: Top intermodal lanes
A map of the largest intermodal lanes shows how railroads have capitalized on the trailer and container boom … and where they have fallen short
Railroad Blueprint: Santa Fe’s Surf Line, 1940
How’s this for beach reading? Santa Fe’s L.A.-San Diego line had it all: sun, sand and, in 1941, Warbonnets
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
UP still fighting to beat congestion, and Western Pacific’s California Zephyr recreated for a day
Don Phillips
When is Trains going to run out of steam? Its editors have always kept the fires burning, but the next person could dump the ashes
Larry Kaufman
Shippers get real about competitive access, admitting they’d really just rather have more capacity
Locomotives
EMD, GE churning out new units
Passenger
“Union station” now means train plus bus
City Rail
What’s old is new at a transit line near you: new and rebuilt cars and lines surface in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Minneapolis
Preservation
Wicasset, Waterville & Farmington: Maine’s two-foot empire gains new life
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