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 August 2011 downloadable PDF package
Iron Horses to Quarter Horses
Map of the Month: Cajon Pass as You’ve Never Seen It
Amtrak At Its Best (And Worst)
Baldwin’s Jurassic Park
Bonus Content: See a full roster of SMS’s locomotive fleet
Shiny Rails of the Emerald Isle
Difference of Decades: Big Changes At A Big Yard
In My Own Words: School’s Out For Summer
NEWS
News & Photos
- Railroads: the post-cell phone era
- Q&A with BNSF’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer John Lanigan
- Flooding truncates the route of Amtrak’s City of New Orleans and Empire Builder
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Locomotive
- Why some railroads trade locomotive speed for tractive effort
- Where are they now: Amtrak’s F69PHACs
Technology
Passenger
City Rail
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Reflecting on the simple joy of watching a train pass
Ask Trains
• Pennsy Tubular Train • GATX reporting marks • Isolating locomotives
Trackside
Observe Baldwins and the Northeast’s SMS Rail Lines’ other fascinating diesel locomotives in action
Bonus Content: See maps of SMS Rail Lines’ other operations
Preservation
The great recession puts a strain on well-known publicly funded railroad museums
