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 September 2011 downloadable PDF package
Containers Through the Coal Fields
Ride the World’s Longest Railway
The 2.2 Percent Solution
Bonus Content: See more graphs and illustrations detailing the mountain crossings of all five northern transcontinental railroads
Phone Calls From God
Bonus Content: Take in more striking photographs by master photographer Richard Steinheimer
Map of the Month: Pittsburgh’s Railroads in 1946
In My Own Words: The Hogger On My Right
NEWS
News & Photos
- Amtrak’s Chicago-Detroit Wolverines slow down
- Q&A with former Surface Transportation Board member Charles D. “Chip Nottingham
- Investigators seek answers in deadly truck-California Zephyr collision
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Technology
Locomotive
By Brian Tindle
Where is it now: Southern Pacific’s first diesel switcher
By David Lustig
Passenger
Bonus Content: Check out North Dakota’s Department of Transportation’s “Railroad Grade Raise Planning and Feasibility Study.” And, read as Bob Johnston recounts his Builder trip to North Dakota (and surprise return routing to Chicago) on our blog
City Rail
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Odd but relevant railroad facts come to mind on a long and bumpy flight
Fantrip
Trackside Guide: Hamlet, N.C.
Preservation
East Broad Top support group helps the historic narrow gauge line survive
Ask Trains
• Tribute paint schemes • Locomotive throttle notches • Disappearing signal lines
