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 July 2010 downloadable package
Inside the World’s Largest Yard
By Andy Cummings, Matt Van Hattem, and David Lustig
Bonus Content: Learn about North Platte’s growth as a railroad town, and watch a car roll down the hump
Subscriber-Only Bonus: Download a PDF of a map of Union Pacific’s North Platte Terminal!
Leave Me Tender
Santa Fe Southern
Map of the Month: Cleveland Rails
Adventures of an Amtrak On-Board Service Director
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Sharing the Rails the Hard Way
Railroad Reading: The Perfect Clog
NEWS
News & Photos
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Technology
Locomotive
Passenger
Bonus Content: See another instance of when a Zephyr passenger was not allowed to upgrade.
City Rail
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
CSX promotes Cindy Sanborn as its new vice president and chief transportation officer
Ask Trains
Auxillary air hoses • Yardmaster duties • Bending rail for curves
Preservation
John H. White Jr. helped shape railway preservation as we know it today
Fantrip
Trackside Guide: Milwaukee, WI