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
Trains Express PDF package!
Amtrak: Time to Claim Your Destiny
Bonus Content: Check out Amtrak’s 2009 TV commercials.
Map of the Month: Iron Ore Country, 1913
Midwest Mountain Railroading
One Dam Fine Train
Bonus Content: See photos of railbuses and motor cars caught in action over the years in the U.S. and Canada
A Sweet Ride No More?
Bonus Content: See U.S. Sugar’s diesel roster and view some of the steam power that worked the sugar cane lines.
Railroad Reading: Riding the Rails with Riley
NEWS
News & Photos
Bonus Content: Read Andrew Dow’s take on Britain’s recent rail conference. And, download a PDF of the federal government’s guidelines for getting a slice of the high speed rail money pie.
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Technology
Locomotive
Bonus Content: See the latest “Great Northern” diesel.
Passenger
Bonus Content: Learn more about redemption strategies and the art of avoiding high sleeper or Acela Express first-class prices.
City Rail
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Michigan Technological University prunes railroads’ next generation
Fantrip
Dinner trains
Preservation
Sierra Ten-Wheeler No. 3 returns to the rails
Ask Trains
Locomotive power planning • Crossing whistle signals • Passenger load factor
