September 2010

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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.

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Trains Express September 2010 downloadable PDF

This month’s PDF package includes articles on the changing technology of distributed power and is available for $5.95

Freight Train, Unbounded

Distributed power: It’s a bigger deal than you think
By David Lustig

Bonus Content: See two TrainsTube videos – Distributed Power on Donner Pass and Distributed Power Descending the Front Range. And, find out how engineers set a train up for Locotrol

Distributed Power’s Wonder Years

By Ron Flanary

In the beginning, Southern, Louisville & Nashville, and Norfolk & Western led the way

5 Reasons to Love Swiss Railroading

Steep grades, superb connectivity, car-trains, rolling billboards, and historic cogs
By Jim Wrinn

Bonus Content: See more photos of the incredible Swiss railways

What to do about NIMBYs?

By Dan Machalaba

Not everyone likes trains, and opposition groups are threatening railroad expansion

Map of the Month: Milwaukee Road Growth

By Matt Van Hattem

Wisconsin’s first railroad came a long way

Bonus Content: See more about the Milwaukee Road’s expansion, electrification, and operations

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Cut the Locomotive in Half

By J.W. Swanberg

How Chileans turn an engine when it’s too big for a turntable

Railroad Reading: 52 Pick-Up

By Winn B. Frank

A crew cleans up after an 80-car train with six SD24s derails in New Mexico

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News & Photos

Railroads, Federal Railroad Administration seek to overcome strife on high speed rail fund guidelines • Canadian Pacific pulls trains from CSX Michigan route

Don Phillips

Railroads are confronting one crisis after another

Fred W. Frailey

Railroads hustle for money

Technology

Truck performance detectors help railroads fix problematic railcars

Locomotive

There’s more to a locomotive horn’s design than you think

Bonus Content: See a video of a Nathan K-5LA airchime in action

Passenger

North Carolina’s Raleigh-Charlotte corridor succeeds with big windows, train hosts, and ‘Darth Vader’

City Rail

The latest transit line in Vancouver, B.C., tops expectations in less than a year

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

Steamtown, 15 years later

Fantrip

Trackside Guide: Redding, Calif.

Preservation

Norfolk Southern charts a new course for a steam program with Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

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844’s red Gyralite • Dynamic brake notches • Chartered Metra train

September 2010

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