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
BNSF Reborn: Same track, same trains, a new way to run them
Behold the Transcon: Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s route to prosperity and laboratory for the 21st century railroad.
Mississippi Mudlark
When the monsoon hits, its hard to tell the locomotives from the muddy landscape – even in a Ted Rose painting.
Returning to the rails
Charlotte, N.C., prepares to launch commuter light-rail service on a former Southern Railway line.
Long night in Chicago
A last-minute call,l a busy tower, headlights staring at me from every direction … my worst night on the railroad.
The age of innocence
New York City was a train-watcher’s paradise in the 1960s, and this musician explored it all, with camera in hand.
Map of the Month: Union Pacific predecessors
The biggest of the biggest grew tremendously since deregulation. We map the fallen flags that formed today’s 33,000-mile system.
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
CPR finds a new route to Chicago – on NS.
Don Phillips
Don will continue to write for Trains, but his column title rides into the distance as he accepts a new job in Paris.
Mark W. Hemphill
The sour smell of success: The regulator is dead, the business makes money, and why that may not make you happy.
Locomotives
RailPower has come a long way in three years.
Passenger
Searching for bargains on Amtrak and VIA Rail.
City Rail
Port Authority Trans-Hudson inks a $809 million deal to replace or rehabilitate entire car fleet.
Preservation
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum moves into new streetcar barn.
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