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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.
Features
40 pages of grain-hauling goodness! Trains’ coverage of railroads and grain goes back five decades. In this
downloadable PDF we’ll take you to Kansas, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest.
Your Next Meal Starts Here
Between amber waves of grain and your breakfast table there is a train of covered hoppers
Beneath silos expect to find freaky diesels and wild paint schemes
From boxcars to covered hoppers, here’s how grain rides the rails
Step inside a grain elevator to see what happens to corn between the farm and the rails
People called the 20th century ‘Canada’s Century.’ See how the wheat boom grew a nation
Map of the Month: Where the Shuttles Go
See the loading and unloading points for U.S. grain shuttles
Meet a new short line whose success depends on wheat
Not Your Grandpa’s Grain Train
Monstrous ‘Shuttle Trains’ represent a new way of moving grain, and not everyone’s happy
Before shuttle trains and jumbo covered hoppers, locals and boxcars did the work
Railroaders’ Olympics: A game of ‘toss the tie plate’ goes awry at the Great Salt Lake
BNSF in Washington; Southwest Chief in New Mexico; Union Pacific in Nebraska; and Metra in Illinois
NEWS
Obama rides rails to Washington
Traffic may be down, but railroads remain upbeat
Recession doesn’t mean gloom and doom for railroads
Gensets sideline 70-tonners
How Amtrak planned Northeast Corridor services for Inauguration Day
Georgia introduces a hybrid streetcar in its tourist district
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Railroading’s role in feeding the world
Ask Trains
‘Big John’ name, ACL No. 501, Caprotti valve gear
Preservation
Minnesota museums show how grain moved by rail
Fantrip
How to plan a railfan vacation
