August 2010

August 2010

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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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Trains Express August 2010 free download!

Read more about high speed rail in a PDF package free to subscribers

TGV: High Speed Hero

France’s super-fast train has set speed records for decades and revolutionized how the world travels
By Keith Fender

Bonus Content: Learn more about European high speed, visit Alstom’s TGV assembly plant, see TGV’s train station, and find out how TGVs are serviced and maintained

Virginia & Truckee Lives!

The ‘queen of shortline railroads’ rises again in the desert
By Jim Wrinn

Bonus Content: See historic photos of the V&T

Mon Con Memories

By Robert A. Simon

The 1970s were a time of huge change for railroading, steelmaking, and the Northeast

Map of the Month: Pennsylvania’s Mountain Soul

By Bill Metzger

Your guide to the 43 miles from Altoona to Johnstown

Adventures of an Amtrak On-Board Service Director

By Dale Jenkins

Part 2: More malfunctions cause passenger dysfunction

WEB EXCLUSIVE: St. Kitts Scenic Railway

By Richard Luckin

The last surviving sugarcane-hauling rail line in the Caribbean

Railroad Reading: Shortline Charm

By Alan W. Maples

One railroad’s long history, small locomotive, and soul

NEWS

News & Photos

Panama Canal expansion • Last ‘Armstrong’ tower falls

Don Phillips

Will the next round of railroad mergers come sooner than we think?

Fred W. Frailey

Minus its backbone, Amtrak makes a tempting target

Technology

Norfolk Southern’s track geometry train

Locomotive

What’s next for Caterpillar/EMD?

Passenger

Kansas presents options to the traveling public for restoring train service between Kansas City and Texas

Bonus Content: See two reports about Kansas’ Amtrak options

City Rail

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority examines its aging equipment, track, structures

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

Welcome to the future of American passenger railroading

Fantrip

Trackside Guide: Tacoma, Wash.

Preservation

Iowa man recreates Virginia & Truckee 2-6-0 No. 1 Lyon

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South Shore interurban cars • Boxcar retirements • Open-air platform access

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