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
Santa Fe Trainmaster, boss of a dot on a map
Seligman, Arizona: loneliest crew change on the Santa Fe main line. Most days, the railroad just ran itself. The other days were nothing anyone could be ready for
Rougemere nights
What seemed simple was hard. What was hard was everything. Just another night in CX’s Detroit yard
In the shadow of Hell Gate
People live under this massive railroad bridge
Boomer in a boom town
We came to Southern Pacific in Houston for the same thing: money. We left feeling like family
Map of the Month: High-speed corridors
If we ever get high-speed rail, it might go here…
Railroad Blueprint: M&K Junction, West Virginia
Pusher terminal from B&O to Chessie to CSX
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
Is Union Pacific on the verge of meltdown?
Don Phillips
When terrorism strikes U.S. rails, will irrationality follow?
Larry Kaufman
Saving short lines shouldn’t be at the expense of Class Is
Locomotives
F40 + SD60 = a “Super F40” for Metrolink
Passenger
Keeping Amtrak’s Auto-Train on the move
City Rail
NJT’s new South Jersey light-rail line: who is it for, anyway?
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Railway Post Office
Railroad Reading
Ask Trains
Preservation
New Products
Gallery
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