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
Cover Story: Short Distances, Big Opportunity
Map of the Month: Pittsburgh’s Railroads Today
The Alco Doc and His Piano
Bonus Content: See more of Kevin Scanlon’s photos of the Delaware-Lackawanna
Submarine Railroading in West Virginia
In My Own Words: Penn Central Cab Ride or a Football Game?
NEWS
News & Photos
- America’s big stations of yesterday re-emerge as multi-modal stations with light rail and buses
- Q&A with Railroad Development Corp. Chairman Henry Posner III
- Alaska Railroad faces a tough future
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Locomotive
Technology
Passenger
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Long-distance train rides are worth the time
Ask Trains
• Delaware Coast Line
• Locomotive brake gauges
• Norfolk Southern Thoroughbred logo
Preservation
Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, Calif., is now home to a mini-Union Pacific streamliner
Trackside
Trackside Guide: Dorval, Quebec
