Join Trains for a visit at West Virginia’s remote and scenic Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, featuring a live, steaming Climax locomotive. Only from Trains! […]
Trains Presents: Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad
Zone & Region: Appalachia
Trains Presents: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
Join Trains for a trackside look at Sept. 2015 steam and diesel excursions the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum orchestrated out of Chattanooga, Tenn. Only from Trains! […]
Trains Presents: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
Join Trains for a trackside look at Sept. 2015 steam and diesel excursions the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum orchestrated out of Chattanooga, Tenn. Only from Trains! […]
Trains Presents Cass Scenic photo charter
Follow along Editor Jim Wrinn’s June 2016 photo charter on the Cass Scenic Railroad! See and hear historic geared locomotives working in the amazing mountain scenery of West Virginia. Only from Trains Magazine! […]
Trains Presents Cass Scenic photo charter
Follow along Editor Jim Wrinn’s June 2016 photo charter on the Cass Scenic Railroad! See and hear historic geared locomotives working in the amazing mountain scenery of West Virginia. Only from Trains Magazine! […]
Trains Presents: Western Maryland Scenic Railroad landslide repair update
Join Trains Editor Jim Wrinn for a first-hand look at the devastation and reconstruction of a portion of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s main line near Frostburg, Md. Heavy rains washed away a significant portion of the route in early 2016 preventing tourists from seeing the railroad in full splendor. […]
Trains Presents: Western Maryland Scenic Railroad landslide repair update
Join Trains Editor Jim Wrinn for a first-hand look at the devastation and reconstruction of a portion of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s main line near Frostburg, Md. Heavy rains washed away a significant portion of the route in early 2016 preventing tourists from seeing the railroad in full splendor. […]
Pennsylvania’s Steel City gateway
Railroads included in this map: Norfolk Southern; CSX Transportation; Johnstown & Stony Creek; Ligonier Valley; Lehigh Valley Rail Management; Pennsylvania; Southwest Pennsylvania; Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad; Western Pennsylvania This map originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Trains Magazine. […]
I was a teenage hostler
Big EM-1 2-8-8-4s congregate at the Benwood, Ohio, engine terminal in August 1957, a decade after author Tanner was a hostler there. J. J. Young Jr., Bob Withers coll. Sixty-odd years ago, North American railroads were enjoying prosperous years. World War II was over, but the momentum created during that time continued for another decade. […]
EM-1 cresting Newburg Grade
Baltimore & Ohio class EM-1 2-8-8-4 7620 crests Newburg Grade in West Virginia with eastbound coal in 1948. William P. Price photo […]
Return to daylight
Norfolk Southern SD60 No. 6704 emerges westbound from Elkhorn Tunnel on the Pocahontas main line in West Virginia on Dec. 19, 2008. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
Map of Glenita, Va., and environs
Because of a production error with our Spring 2016 issue, the map that should have accompanied the article “Calamity at Glenita” — about a 1968 coal train derailment on the Southern Railway — was omitted from the magazine. Here is the map. […]
