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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
Kansas City Southern’s ‘Southern Belle’ Gets Ready for Her Close-up
Ask the folks who run this office-car train: It takes a lot of work to look this beautiful
Map of the Month: Amtrak Ridership by Station
See where the 25.8 million people who rode Amtrak in 2007 began and ended their journeys
The American train station is enjoying a renaissance, as communities return historic depots to their former glory and revive fading downtowns
Surf, Calif., and the Southern Pacific
I left my New Jersey home and moved to California, only to discover railroading in Surf, a place that offered “the wind, the sand, and the sea” – and much more
Roll ‘Em Kid: From watching trains roll by the family homestead, to watching them from the engine cab, this Bellevue, Ohio, resident lived his dream to ‘drive trains’
A former Bangor & Aroostook BL2 runs on the Stourbridge Line in White Mills, Pa.
NEWS
Whistle-free zones proliferate, despite concerns
Metro-North installs new wheel-truing machine
UP’s “pit-stop” approach to locomotive servicing
What’s next for Amtrak’s Superliner diner-lounges?
New Jersey Transit improves service
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Maybe Amtrak’s time has come
Ask Trains
Fantrip
Park Service, Amtrak team up
Preservation
Museum life support: endowment
