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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.
Features
What”s So Great About Your State?
We asked readers to tell us about railroading that is the best. We found it coast-to-coast, just over the horizon
Pennsylvania: Where Trains Do Heavy Lifting
The Keystone State offers main lines, short lines, transit, steam, and still makes locos
Best of the East: From the Seaboard to the Mountains
The East is about fast mains, slow drags, abundant short lines, big bridges, and plenty more unique railroading
Norfolk Southern powers a Canadian Pacific Railway train over the Mohawk River in Cohoes, N.Y.
Illinois: Crossroads of American Railroads
Key routes, busy yards, and tons of interchanges. No wonder this state was our top pick!
Best of the Midwest: Action, Variety From Fields to Factories
From the Dakotas to Michigan to Louisiana and Mississippi, the Midwest offers more than you might expect
A Canadian National train rumbles through new-fallen snow at New Richmond, Wis., 10 miles from the Minnesota border.
California: Like Nowhere Else on Earth!
The Golden State”s charms are many. Just one visit, and you”ll say, “Eureka!”
Best of the West: Where Big Skies Meet Big Trains
From Washington and Montana to Texas, the West has won railfans from near and far
Despite being one of the lowest-elevation crossing of the Continental Divide, Marias Pass is still a marvel.
Long Island was the right place and his ninth birthday was the right time. All they needed was Uncle Bud and 1508
When the loop shuts down for maintenance in Tehachapi, Monolith, Calif., comes to life with Warbonnets and more
NEWS
UP”s licensing battle; Alexander Kummant interview
Those who changed railroad history still can”t believe it
Change, at last, comes to Union Pacific”s Sunset Route
When tack time is tight, technology steps in
UP”s “untouched” units: Get ”em while you can
New Illinois trains required months of preparation
Top 10 U.S. rail transit agencies by ridership
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
All about what’s new at Trains
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“Doll-arm” signals Turbocharged diesels Those hooded coil cars
Preservation
Nevada McKeen car to roll again
