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.
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
Big Boy or Big Mistake?
Did Super Power Steam make it easy for diesels to sweep the field? Which railroads got it right; which got it wrong?
Moonset at Peru
The setting moon and a Union Pacific Overland Route freight aligned ever so briefly in one photographer’s lens.
Railroad art as it was meant to be
When Mitch Markovitz paints railroad scenes, he communicates the very essence of railroading.
Iraq postscript
An American railroader ponders his experience after working on the war front of railroading.
California today … the nation tomorrow?
How’s this for irony? The state that glorified the freeway is staking its future on passenger trains.
Map of the Month: Iowa abandonments
Once, no point in Iowa was more than 12 miles from a railroad. But deregulation and merger fueled abandonments and spinoffs.
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
The upper Midwest gets a taste of steam in all its glory
Don Phillips
Don to the future TRAINS editor: Don’t mess with my magazine!
Locomotives
The F59H, commuter engine pioneer, may be on borrowed time
Passenger
What’s holding up passenger trains? We chart a week of delays
City Rail
Baltimore’s MTA reopens part of its southern route; Caltrain launches Baby Bullet express service
Preservation
East Broad Top works, plans for fall spectacular
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