February 2010

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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Trains Express February 2010 free download!

This month’s PDF package on California passenger trains, perishables traffic, and railroad movies is free to subscribers.

A Fresh Approach

By Roy Blanchard

How two railroads and a shipper put perishables traffic back on the menu

Breathing Easier in Mullan Tunnel

A Montana regional aims to improve on Mullan Tunnel’s unsavory reputation
By Tom Danneman

Bonus Content: See a slideshow of a train exiting Mullan’s west portal

Map of the Month: Penn Central in 1969

By Curtis W. Richards , Bill Metzger , Matt Van Hattem

Tonnage and trackage on the largest U.S. railroad of the 1960s

California’s Amtrak Playbook

By Fred W. Frailey

Other states should look to California, the savviest passenger rail state of all

Train Wranglers in Hollywood

By Kelly Lynch

See what happens when an unscripted 38 inches of snow falls on a movie set

WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Obscure Ones: ICG’s SD40-2s

By Nick Tharalson

In the 1980s, SD40-2s ruled, but not on the Illinois Central Gulf

Railroad Reading: I Oughta Sue ‘Em

By Ed King

A Norfolk & Western railroader has the perfect job until dieselization sets in

NEWS

News & Photos

Eastern coal sours; Norfolk Southern, CSX suffer • Dispute sidelines Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261

Don Phillips

Buffett purchase of BNSF shows media ignorance

Fred W. Frailey

Seven ways to become a better railfan

Technology

Some of the most important equipment protecting the rails is barely noticeable

Bonus Content: See tank car rollover test photos and details

Locomotive

What will become of Union Pacific’s specially painted diesels?

Passenger

Amtrak releases strategic plan

Bonus Content: See Amtrak’s new “Strategic Guidance 2009” report and five-year financial plan for fiscal years 2010-2015

City Rail

The newest commuter railroad in the U.S. makes a splash in Minnesota

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From the Editor

Preservation’s climate change

Preservation

Meet Trains’ annual preservation award winner: Pacific Locomotive Association’s rebuild of a 2-6-6-2T

Fantrip

Collect railroad stamps

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Track geometry car on Acela • Distributed power control • Clinchfield’s ‘One Spot’

February 2010

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