October 2024

The October 2024 issue of Trains Magazine.

Featured

In this Issue

Connecticut: Big changes in a small state

Once the domain of just two railroads, the Constitution State is now home to 13 operations

Time travel aboard Hickory Creek

A vintage New York Central observation car takes passengers to another era

In search of rare Fairbanks-Morse diesels

Encountering a trio of Fairbanks-Morse H12-44s working at California’s Sierra Army Base

Be the Engineer

Programs like the one at Nevada Northern Railroad put you in the driver’s seat

In My Own Words: “The farmer's frying pan"

It was a heavy-metal incident at an Iowa grade crossing

Gallery

Images of railroading taken in the month of October

In every issue

News, p. 6

  • First Siemens café car debuts in Amtrak’s Midwest service, and a summer of challenges for the Northeast Corridor

Bill Stephens, p. 9

  • Railroads should copy Norfolk Southern’s Short Line Performance Project

Preservation, p. 42

  • Northwest Railroad Museum in Snoqualmie, Wash., to build new roundhouse, gallery, and turntable

Great Railfan Roads, p. 44

  • Follow the BNSF Railway across Montana

Brian Solomon, p. 54

  • Rail and road across Ireland