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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
Union Pacific vs. the Mudslide
How a big railroad tackled a massive Oregon mudslide that took out its main line not once but twice
Boarders, But Never Bored
Busiest Station in the World
Shinjuku Station keeps 3.5 million people a day moving through Tokyo. And you thought your commute was hectic!
Online Bonus: Railfanning Tokyo and more
Map of the Month: Buffalo, N.Y., in 1942
Trains were drawn to Buffalo like iron filings to magnets. Here is the city at its most tangled, when 11 trunkline railroads and three short lines moved thousands of cars a day
Was 1920s silent film star Fatty Arbuckle a railfan? You decide
Missed by a gnat’s eyelash: Experience a near collision through the eyes of a railroad deputy special agent on a ride-along in Texas
Santa Fe’s Barstow Yard, Canadian Pacific in the Rockies, the circus train crossing the Wabash River, Alcos on the Piedmont & Northern, two B39-8s bracket three B30-7s in Worcester, Mass.
NEWS
NS reaches Boston via deal with Pan Am Railway
Tie gang equipment, and what each piece does
Railroads seek to double inspection intervals
GrandLuxe targets Mexico’s Copper Canyon
When Class I railroads, transsits share corridors
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Epic drama: railroads vs. nature
Ask Trains
Preservation
A family friendly railroad museum
Fantrip
Railfan clubs face the digital age
