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
Oregon’s Shortline Survivor
The Port of Tillamook Bay lives to haul lumber, logs, and livestock feed across one of the toughest mountain railroads of the Pacific Northwest.
Railroad Blueprint: Bound Brook, N.J., 2005
Quiet moments are few and far between in this Gotham suburb where five railroads meet on three parallel lines.
Hard Traveling
Lewis and Clark, railroads, and the American West.
Didja Bring One With Ya?
Weaving Amtrak through the all-stops commuter trains and freights was never easy.
Grand Forks 25 Years Later
A one-time BN brakeman returns to North Dakota and learns it really is better working for the railroad now.
Map of the Month: L&N Coal Mines in 1966
During the 1960s, the Louisville & Nashville began moving coal in unit trains, and set itself up for its heaviest period of coal traffic.
NEWS
Railroad News & PhotosRailroad News & Photos
Canadian Pacific invests in western capacity improvements.
Don Phillips
General Motors has sold EMD but will always be known as the firm that changed railroading in spite of itself.
Locomotives
David Lustig tracks down the units he sought 30 years ago in Arizona.
Passenger
Its Acelas sidelined, Amtrak brings back Metroliners.
City Rail
New Jersey Transit offers photographers a permit.
Preservation
To rebuild or reboiler? That is the question more museums and tourist lines are asking.
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