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Trains Magazine Back Issues June 2009

June 2009

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


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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.

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Features

Trains Express downloadable package

Shortline railroads have been part of Trains magazine’s coverage since 1941. Learn how small railroads do big jobs, how motive power changes patterns, and how Iowa Interstate works.

Facing a Raging Storm Together

By Roy Blanchard

How CSX and its shortline partners can look beyond the economic tsunami

Map of the Month: What Ever Happened to the Anthracite Roads

By Bill Metzger , Matt Van Hattem

We map the disposition of eight Pennsylvania coal-haulers

Big Power for the Little Guys

By Eric Powell

What’s fueling the trend prompting regional railroads to buy big diesels

Bonus Content

See a roster of several short lines’ locomotives
Meet the artist who created the striking EMD ads of the 1960s in the Spring 2008 issue of Classic Trains magazine

Out of the Woods

By Ted Benson

A McCloud River Railroad remembrance

Bonus Content

See more gorgeous black-and-white photography of McCloud River Railroad.

America’s Energy Independence Rides the Rails

By Roy Blanchard

Two short lines play a big role in U.S. gas and oil production

The Bad and the Ugly

By Forrest L. Becht

Railroading has its rewards but, as one shortline boss recalls, some days you just wish you had stayed in bed

Bonus Content

See more bad days on the Arizona Eastern and Louisiana & Delta.

Railroad Reading

By David Simington

Drop everything and go: A New England short line fills an order on the double before jobs and cash dissolve

Gallery

Breaking dawn at Rochelle, Ill., fast freight on the Boston & Albany; racing a stack train by boat; and the steady hand of an engineer

NEWS

News & Photos

Amtrak photography rules • RailAmerica and Honda

Don Phillips

Amtrak’s police chief is the best in the U.S.

Roy Blanchard

Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad in New York doesn’t worry about the recession

Technology

Railroad engineering advancements
Bonus Content: Learn more about new railroad technologies

Locomotive

Stored Class I locomotives

Passenger

Canada Border Services Agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Amtrak

City Rail

Commuter railroads and quiet zones

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

Modesto & Empire Traction Co. in Central California thrives

Fantrip

Jim Wrinn’s 10-day Colorado railfan trip recommendation
Bonus Content: More Colorado railfan destinations

Preservation

Central Pacific’s Leviathan replica will be ready for Trainfestival 2009

Ask Trains

U.K. locomotive headlights • Bearcat scanners • Track types in New York

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