Take one last look at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum’s Secret City Excursion Train, which closed earlier in 2016 after more than 20 years in operation. You’ll see a finely restored Seaboard Coast Line EMD SD45 and a classic Alco C420 in operation in the hills of northern Tennessee. The museum plans to continue its […]
Grand Prize winner: A reflection of a BNSF Railway engine in water droplets near Old Monroe, Mo., on the BNSF K-Line. Barry Gaston This year we are publishing our 77th volume, so it seemed fitting to call the 2017 Trains Photo Contest “Lucky 7.” As always, you can interpret our theme in any way you […]
Join Locomotive 2016 Editor Greg McDonnell as he visits this now-famous Canadian short line and its fleet of FP9s! You’ll see the locomotives on freight trains and snow plow duty, and check out the engine room while they speed down the track! Only from Locomotive 2016 and Trains Magazine! […]
Locomotive 2016 is back with more stories on North America’s newest and most powerful locomotives. Our annual Motive Power Review gives you information you can’t find anywhere else: an exclusive listing of every new locomotive built in North America. In addition to the Motive Power Review, you’ll find feature stories including: Metra Muscle: see the […]
Visit the only operating former Central Railroad of New Jersey steam locomotive, 0-6-0 No. 113, with Trains Magazine! See the locomotive pull excursions in Minersville, Pa., in December 2015 following its estimated $600,000 restoration. Only from Trains! To learn more about the locomotive and its restoration, go to www.rrproject113.org. […]
Running left-handed per C&NW practice, E-class Pacific 1634 skirts Lake Monona as she departs Madison with the evening local to Chicago. Frank Rogers Back in the days when there were enough railroad companies to make train-watching really interesting, Madison, Wis., was served by three: the Milwaukee Road, the Chicago & North Western, and the Illinois […]
Even the Sunshine State sees the occasional rainstorm, which has caught southbound Florida East Coast train No. 101 on Jan. 12, 2015, just north of St. Augustine. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Eastbound Providence & Worcester train NH-1 with B39-8 No. 3909 and B30-7A No. 3007 waits in the siding at Triebel interlocking at Guilford, Conn., for an eastbound Amtrak train to get by on June 15, 2009. Photo by Thomas Mik […]
20th Century Limited Kalmbach Publishing, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612. 56 minutes kalmbachhobbystore.com Just under 50 years ago, a famous train ended a 65-year run as the premier conveyance linking New York and Chicago. Operated by the New York Central Railroad, the 20th Century Limited was launched in 1902 during the “the age of […]
Two blue end caps for bearings made by Amsted Rail’s Brenco Inc. appear on a freight car truck at the Union Pacific’s Butler Yard in Wisconsin. Steve Sweeney Q What is the significance of the blue paint that I see on the rotating bearing caps on freight car wheelsets? – Tito Porfiri, Olney, Md. A […]
Come along with Trains Magazine and the Locomotive 2016 annual as we take a look at train watching in Fullerton, Calif.! This bona fide Hot Spots location is featured in the latest installment of our motive power special issue! You’ll see modern diesels from Amtrak, BNSF Railway, and Metrolink as they thread their trains through […]
FULL SCREEN John F. Bjorklund, Collection of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art In its early days, Amtrak relied solely on equipment provided by its member railroads. The passenger carrier is barely two months old in this Independence Day view from Chicago in 1971, where train No. 18, the eastbound Super Chief-El Capitan, still […]
