POMONA, Calif. – Trains Editor Jim Wrinn interviews Union Pacific steam manager Ed Dickens on moving 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 across the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in and on to Cheyenne. […]
Magazine: Trains Magazine
Kansas City tonnage: 1971 and 2003
Chicago might have more trains, and St. Louis a big shiny arch, but Kansas City is the ton-mile king, with over 1 billion tons passing through the city (or above it, on flyovers) in 2003. That is 15 percent more tons than Chicago. What is remarkable about K.C. is its sheer growth, from 378 million […]
Book Review: Norfolk & Western’s Clinch Valley Line
Norfolk & Western’s Clinch Valley Line by Ed Wolfe, Charles Wilson, Jr., and Paul Mandelkern HEW Enterprises, 116 Oakview Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 1521; 432 pages, 384 b/w and 48 color photos; hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in.; $65.00 Ed Wolfe has established himself as an outstanding researcher and writer in Appalachian railroad history with five different […]
UP Big Boy No. 4014 will roll Jan. 26 NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific moved No. 4014 across the fairgrounds in November in anticipation of January’s move from the park. Jim Wrinn POMONA, Calif. – The long awaited day when Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 will return to the national rail system is at hand. Mark Jan. 26 as a red letter day in the history […]
Trains 2014 Photo Contest
Robert Jordan took this aerial image of Canadian Pacific train No. 270 at Bellevue, Iowa, and won grand prize for Trains 2012 photo contest. Trains‘ 2014 photo contest theme is “Sequence.” Sequential art can be traced back to cave drawings, and more recently in comic books. Well-known photographer Elliott Erwitt published a 2011 book called […]
Vermont Railway debuts 50th anniversary locomotive NEWSWIRE
No. 311 Kevin Burkholder/Vermont Rail System BURLINGTON, Vt. – The Vermont Rail System has unveiled a 50th anniversary locomotive, GP40-2W No. 311. The unit honors both the railroad’s 50 years of service and the founder’s mother, Joan Wulfson. In the fall of 1963, the end of the Rutland Railroad was in sight and, on Jan. 6, […]
Washington Metro welcomes first 7000-series railcars NEWSWIRE
The new 8000-series cars approach the Greenbelt Station. Sol Tucker Interior of the new 8000-series WMATA cars. Sol Tucker WASHINGTON – The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is debuting its first 7000-series train at Greenbelt Station this week. The newest addition to the rail fleet will fulfill a critical National Transportation Safety Board recommendation by replacing […]
Amtrak ‘Crescent’ to be canceled on select dates this winter NEWSWIRE
ATLANTA – Service will be canceled on Amtrak’s Crescent route between Atlanta and New Orleans will be canceled on select dates between Jan. 6 and Feb. 6. The cancellations are due to track work being performed by Norfolk Southern. Train Nos. 19 and 20 normally operate between New York and New Orleans. Service will be […]
Trains Magazine 2013 Index
Trains Magazine’s 2013 Index trains_2013_index […]
Cajon Pass Extra
In October 2013, Trains sent me to Southern California to attend the first-ever Association of Tourist Railroads and Railway Museums meeting, to see Union Pacific’s preparatory work for moving Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 AND to get material for the February 2014 article in the magazine: “Cajon Pass Unplugged.” I spent weeks before and after […]
Sounds and images: Raising a Northeast Corridor drawbridge
FULL SCREEN Bob Johnston Amtrak bridge operator Merrill Perkins controls the Northeast Corridor’s Niantic River movable bridge from a tower at the end of the structure. Push-button controls make this bridge easy to operate. FULL SCREEN Bob Johnston The previous Niantic River movable bridge had been built by the New Haven Railroad in 1907, and […]
Book Review: Railroads for Michigan
Railroads for Michigan by Graydon M. Meints Michigan State University Press, Suite 25, Manly Miles Building, 1405 S. Harrison Road, East Lansing, MI 48823-5245; 640 pages, 180 black-and-white photos; hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in.; $49.95. Michigan’s railroad history is well served by “Railroads for Michigan,” a sprawling new survey by historian Graydon M. Meints. From […]
