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 April 2012 Downloadable PDF Package
Cover Story: Searching for the Andrews Raiders
Speed and Spectacle
Bonus Content: Download or page through Santa Fe’s commemorative booklet on the Scott Special
Railroads and the Sinking of ‘Titantic’
Who was the Steel Drivin’ Man?
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Track 61
Capone Rides the Rails to Alcatraz
NEWS
News & Photos
- Canadian Pacific fights to save its president
- Lockout precedes Electro-Motive London, Ont., factory closure
- Amtrak-Canadian National battle
Don Phillips
Locomotive
Making sense of the Environmental Production Agency’s locomotive emissions tiers
By Chris Guss
BNSF to buy new SD70ACe-P4
Passenger
Fred Frailey
Technology
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Railroading is a business that’s never boring
Ask Trains
• Operating in push vs. pull
• Land grants
• Odd-looking signal
Preservation
By Bob Johnston
Pullman Sleeping Car Co. to use vintage cars to offer traditional sleeper service on two Amtrak trains
Trackside
By Mike Schaller
Trackside Guide: Arlington, Va.
