July 2011

July 2011

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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Features

The July 2011 Trains Express PDF package

This month’s PDF package includes our coverage of stories about moving trash by train and is available for $5.95

Amtrak’s Critical Turns

By Bob Johnston

On its 40th anniversary, the biggest changes Amtrak might face could be just around the bend

Bonus Content: Witness 40 years of changes to Amtrak’s New England trains in a photo gallery from Bob LaMay

Map of the Month: Washington State Railroads

By Ed Berntsen

Northern Pacific’s view of railroads in the Pacific Northwest

For Profit But Without Profit

By Michael T. Burkhart

Thrift has kept Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern in business for nearly five decades

2010 Trains Photo Contest Winners

See which of our readers’ favorite photos were also our favorites

Bonus Content: Share your thoughts about this year’s winning photos

Moving Trash by Train

By Dan Machalaba

‘Urban ore’ fills train after train in the 21st century

Middletown & New Jersey’s time to change

By Keane Maher

New owner quadruples the size of a once-sleepy short line

In My Own Words: Freights Make Haste

By Don Richardson

A Southwest Chief engineer relishes in a trainmaster’s scolding of a Santa Fe freight crew

NEWS

News & Photos

A great year for CSZ and NS coal trains on the Atlantic; future portends exports through Gulf, West coasts
Rail America, Watco, New Brunswick Southern add routes
Q&A with Norfolk Southern’s de facto historian Bill Schafer

Bonus Content: Read excerpts from our interview with NS’s Bill Schafer

Don Phillips

Lawsuits, commuter trains, and the Holocaust

Fred W. Frailey

President Jim Hertwig sets his sights on Florida East Coast’s intermodal future, and befriends the fans

Bonus Content: See Fred Frailey’s twice-weekly blog!

Technology

How do investigators and consultants determine wreck causes?

Bonus Content: Check out more drawings and descriptions of derailments

Locomotive

Amtrak’s switchers and light-duty freight locomotives perform key duties

Bonus Content: Find out which terminals Amtrak switchers are assigned to