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
FREE PULLOUT GUIDE
Your 2012 railroad fun guide to tourist trains and railroad museums
Cover Story: 13 Steam Engines for 2012
Bonus Content: Check out our interactive map of these steam engines!
Hand-in-Hand
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
Map of the Month: Southern Before Norfolk Southern and 30 Years Later
Oil Trains in the Wheat Fields
Two Lines, Two Fates in the Alleghenies
The Terror of 304
NEWS
News & Photos
- Midwest trains reach 110 mph
- Where do the Big Six railroads plan to spend money?
- Three crew die in VIA Rail derailment
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Passenger
Technology
Locomotive
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
The magic of steam locomotives
Ask Trains
• Pennsy K4s No. 1361 status
• Why long hood vs. short?
• Spacing of steam ‘chuffs’
Preservation
By John P. Hankey
North American Railway Foundation supports preservation causes
Trackside
By Drew Halverson
Trackside Guide: Birmingham, Ala.
