Join Trains Magazine Editor Jim Wrinn and video producer Rich Luckin for an early look at our next DVD production: “Selling Sunshine, the Florida Trains,” available in late August 2017. You’ll learn about the passenger trains that opened the Sunshine State to tourism and the railroads they ran on. […]
See how your favorite big steam locomotives are rebuilt and run — from Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway No. 4501, to the big steam story of 2016: the return of Union Pacific No. 844. You can now watch a preview of this new video production, which features popular steam locomotives from coast to coast! […]
Join Trains for a look at the unique D & I Railroad. You’ll see EMD power move heavy stone trains between Dell Rapids, S.D., and Sioux City, Iowa, on this shipper-owned line. Be sure to check out our feature story on the railroad in the September 2017 issue! […]
Watch a steam doubleheader with former Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630 and 2-8-2 No. 4501 in fall 2016. You’ll see the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum excursion run on former Central of Georgia trackage out of Chattanooga with both locomotives under steam. Be sure to look for our special issue, Big Steam is Back, available now, […]
Train Festival 2009 brought together some of the best U.S. steam in central Michigan for an unforgettable weekend of railroading. You’ll see locomotives big and small, from saddletank switchers all the way up to the famed Daylight 4-8-4 No. 4449. Be sure to look for our special issue, Big Steam is Back, available now, along […]
Take a look at the final month of Norfolk Southern subsidiary Triple Crown Services, before its 2015 retrenchment. You’ll see a variety of motive power with this unique RoadRailer freight equipment that is now largely retired. Only from Trains Magazine! For another look at the Triple Crown RoadRailer trains, check out our Triple Crown’s Fort […]
Take a look at the railroad with the magenta stripes: the Aberdeen Carolina & Western. You’ll see both freight and excursion trains on this North Carolina treasure. Be sure to check out our feature story in the June 2017 issue of Trains, too! […]
Join Trains Magazine Editor Jim Wrinn at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer for the May 2017 unveiling of the restored Texas! The famous 4-4-0, which pursued the General in the Great Locomotive Chase, will be on display at the Atlanta History Center in late 2017. You’ll see the locomotive following its cosmetic restoration, […]
Join Trains Magazine and video contributor Kevin Gilliam for a look at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s 2017 opening weekend. You’ll see former Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630 and Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia high-nose GP38 No. 80 in service on passenger trains! […]
Join Kevin Gilliam trackside in North Carolina in February 2017 for a day when both red and blue units of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train pass by. Only from Trains! […]
Join Trains Magazine Assistant Editor Brian Schmidt for a day trackside at West Chicago, Ill., in July 2016. We’ll see Canadian National and Union Pacific freight action, along with ubiquitous Metra commuter trains. We’ll also look at JB Tower, which guards the junction of the two freight carriers. […]
Join Trains for the first run of Georgetown Loop Railroad 2-8-0 No. 111 in October 2016. The locomotive was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1926 for the International Railway of Central America in El Salvador. […]
