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
Seventies synchronicity
The ’70s were the best of times and the worst.
An awful, beautiful life
Could Erie Lackawanna have done it differently?
That ’70s Look: Penn Central
A million-dollar gathering
The story behind TRAINS’ Bicentennial diesel shoot.
That ’70s Look: Milwaukee Road
Stayin’ alive! (steam, that is)
Despite dieselization, steam engines kept showing up.
That ’70s Look: Chessie System
Assembling Amtrak
An overseas consultant believed the passenger railroad would overcome rumors and conflicting motives.
That ’70s Map: Mainline Tonnage
That ’70s Look: Burlington Northern
The Golden Empire came crashing down
How could Southern Pacific fall so fast?
That ’70s Look: Delaware & Hudson
The Rock
A reporter sings the Rock Island blues.
The Conrail Bunch
Of Conrail and The Brady Bunch.
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
KCS, TFM ink new deal; Paul Tellier leaves Bombardier.
Don Phillips
Ah, train travel. The only way to go.
Locomotives
Amtrak boosts its switcher fleet with 10 new MP15Bs.
Passenger
The ups and downs of traveling with baggage on trains.
City Rail
Minneapolis-St. Paul completes line to the Mall of America.
Preservation
B&O reopens but still faces a long restoration.
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Railway Post Office
Railroad Reading
Ask Trains
Preservation
New Products
Gallery
Once upon a time in Trains
