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
January 2011 Trains Express PDF package
EMD Rising
Does It Make Business Sense?
Bonus Content: See photos of the preservation and restoration of Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765
Amtrak Route Guides
Thinkin’ Big in Texas
Bonus Content: Check out the complete listing of the Fort Worth & Western shortline railroad’s locomotives
Map of the Month: Family Lines in 1977
Railroad Reading: Riding the Blind
NEWS
News & Photos
White Pass & Yukon targets ore trade
Canadian Pacific boss talks about route strength
Bonus Content: Read more of our interview with Canadian Pacific’s Fred Green
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Technology
Locomotive
Passenger
Bonus Content: Take a look at Amtrak’s plans for improvement on several of its long-distance trains
City Rail
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Berlin, Germany’s InnoTrans, the largest railroad industry trade show
Fantrip
Around the San Francisco Bay area without a car
Preservation
How one family recreated a piece of Mountain State railroad logging history
Ask Trains
• Measuring track curvature • ‘Bird in Hand’ private car • Cast or fabricated frames
