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.
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
U.S. railroader in Iraq
Rockets’ red glare, bombs bursting in air, big money … and that’s just the drive to work! The inside story from the Mideast
Devil’s Road
Think of Colorado narrow-gauge lines on steroids: Ecuador’s Guayaquil & Quito
Ahead of our time on the Baltimore & Ohio
How our effort to dispatch trains by radio in 1965 – and eliminate 2,600 telegrapher’s jobs – came to nothing
Stranger than fiction
How does a backhoe climb onto a gondola? Find out in this incredible movie-like sequence!
Railroad Blueprint: Saginaw, Texas, 2004
Visit this busy Fort Worth crossroads of Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Map of the Month: Union Pacific trains per day
Train volume and tonnages on America’s largest railroad
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
Can two Class Is really work together? Shippers wonder about Conrail Shared Assets, jointly owned by NS and CSX
Don Phillips
Life, and railroads, are good. But airline travel and highways? Well, you can have them
Larry Kaufman
‘Shameful’ fails to describe U.S. transportation funding
Locomotives
Kansas City Southern tests SD70ACe
Passenger
Alaska’s extreme railroading: Two passenger trains, but they share little more than the rails
City Rail
New York City Transit announces plans to switch the L Line to fully automated service in March 2005
Preservation
Rail labor’s big contribution to preservation: North American Railway Foundation has spent almost $4 million to date
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