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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
Build your knowledge with this month’s Trains Express PDF package. See five of Trains’ famous
speed surveys from the 1950s and ’60s.
10 Locomotives That Changed Railroading
There are locomotives that succeeded, locomotives that failed, and then there are locomotives that changed everything. See if you agree with our picks
The highway’s irresistible siren song has entwined itself into the American culture, as well as the twisted railfan psyche. It’s calling you now
Map of the Month: New York Railroads on Water
Not all rail freight moved on land, as this 1962 map shows
In a business built on motion, time sitting still can be deadly. But there’s more to moving a freight car efficiently across country than just the average train speed
Fireless steam locomotives produce electricity and thermal energy simultaneously from a common fuel source. Might it make sense to use them again?
RIP: Short Line Junction Tower: I stood proud, I kept watch, and I moved trains in Des Moines, Iowa
BNSF Railway, Wellsville, Addison & Galeton, Ware Shoals Railroad, Penn Central, Kansas City Southern, and the Bloomer Line
NEWS
Railroads vow to make PTC work
Washington’s rail miracles of 2008, part 1
If you bought railroad stock, come along for a rough ride
The progress of railroad refrigeration
NS buys first new A.C. power
Passenger projects move forward
Florida’s Tri-Rail needs funding
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
The story behind 10 locomotives
Preservation
Locomotives come out of hiding in Sweden
Fantrip
How does Operation Lifesaver work?
Ask Trains
High-speed turbine, SFSP merger rejection, doubleheaded steam power
