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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
Read more at Trains Express
What U.S. heritage railways should learn from the U.K. – before it’s too late
Mile by mile, volunteers are rebuilding the Ulster & Delaware main line in the heart of the Catskill Mountains
What do a Mississippi steam locomotive, a grocer, and a hopeful yet small Canadian town have in common?
Wandering 18’s Many Lives
One engine reveals keys to tourist railroad success
Map of the Month: Chicago Commuters, 1950 & 2009
What would Chicago be without its commuter trains? See how the routes and weekday train counts in the nation’s railroad capital have changed in 69 years
Whether it was the topography of the line, the desire to make the ‘perfect’ shot, or a beckoning less tangible, something made the author return to a short portion of BNSF’s Aurora Subdivision again and again
The Getaway Car: A father regrets the one that got away on the Alleghany Central in the 1970s in western Virginia
Cass Scenic, Castle Crags, BNSF power trio, Canadian track work
NEWS
Shipping industry predicts intermodal will come back with a vengeance
Wake up, Amtrak. You have won the war. Honest
Questions of risk and safety in the locomotive cab
BNSF orders new ES44 design
Chicago-St. Louis operating hurdles prove it’s not how fast you go, but how fast you get there
Three casinos team up with NJ Transit, Amtrak for a ride with style to Atlantic City, N.J.
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Jim Wrinn reflects on his experience at Cumbres & Toltec Scenic in Chama, N.M.
Ask Trains
Electro Code signaling • Norfolk Southern track geometry vehicles • Steam-diesel doubleheaders
Fantrip
Missouri’s Depot Inn caters to railfans
Preservation
Galveston Railroad Museum in Texas will reopen in fall
Bonus Content
See more photos of the flood damage at the museum.
