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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.
Features
Local freight was the manifestation of a larger struggle to unite an immense continent into one common market and diverse people into one nation.
Class I railroads are changing the way they handle carload freight, while shorter railroads find opportunities for growth.
Map of the Month: Follow That Car!
On this foldout map, we plot the journeys of four freight cars as they cross the eastern portion of the continent.
Local Freight Where It Shouldn’t Be
See how peddlers and passenger trains mix on America’s fastest railroad: the Northeast Corridor.
Dodging Bullets and Other Assorted Tales
The last freight serving San Francisco is the mouse to Caltrain’s cat.
Norfolk Southern train H33, the weekday local out of Reading, Pa., is a classic wayfreight in a mainline world.
How I Learned to Love Life on the Local
To a greenhorn conductor, local freights just weren’t that cool.
Greenhorn on patrol: My rookie months on the Milwaukee Road’s Morton Grove Patrol were tough, but Toby, Chipmunk, and I survived.
Railcars on a barge in New York harbor, BNSF in North Dakota, Camas Prairie Railnet, and Canadian Pacific
NEWS
Could electrics cut costs for rails?
How railroads try to deal with sun kinks
What does dynamic braking do?
Vermont considers Diesel Multiple Units
Is an end near for the last bar cars?
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
The enduring allure of the local
Fantrip
Are you ready to ‘Think Small’?
Preservation
Steam’s 2007 Western roundup
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