Railfans and model railroaders alike will enjoy a glimpse of the forthcoming series, Big Skies & Iron Rails, hosted by designer, photographer, and now videographer Tom Danneman. Watch for full-length episodes highlighting stunning natural vistas and railroads of the American West to arrive in early 2021…exclusively on Trains.com! Trains.com Members have exclusive access to this […]
Labor Day has concluded and so has – unofficially – the 2023 summer. The busy season for museums and tourist railroads may be wrapping up, but as cooler weather begins to roll in you can still add some steam to the mix! These are the big locomotives scheduled to operate when the foliage changes colors […]
Check out series like Big Skies & Iron Rails, capturing the western exploits of Tom Danneman; Trains LIVE with host Bob Lettenberger; Q&A with the Editor; AskTrains.com; Trains Trackside through the lens of Kevin Gilliam; Drew’s Trackside Adventures; and more! Plus, we’ll feature overviews and insights into train simulators that put you at the throttle. What’s […]
Favorite Trains.com videos of 2022: For just about a month now, Trains.com Video has been up and running as the definitive site for viewing a vast array of model and prototype railroad video content! But of course, the Trains.com video production crew has been hard at work capturing and editing premium content for you to […]
Introducing Trains.com Video! This is the new home for all your favorite railroading and modeling video content. Check out series like Gerry Leone’s Spaces to Places, Olympia & Sand Creek featuring David Popp, AskTrains.com with host Cody Grivno, layout visits, Bob Lettenberger’s Trains LIVE, Big Skies & Iron Rails, In the Workshop, Trains Trackside, and […]
Montana Rail Link, for all intents and purposes, is over. Simply awaiting STB approval before the final chapter is written and the company fades into the history books. The story began in 1987, when a new company was formed to lease the former Northern Pacific mainline, then owned by Burlington Northern, from Sandpoint, Idaho, to […]
BNSF Railway is taking back Montana Rail Link’s lease on the former Northern Pacific main line across Montana and Idaho for one simple reason: To control its own destiny. In recent years the growth-minded BNSF has made significant capacity investments on its routes to and from the Pacific Northwest. To the east of MRL, BNSF […]
[<Trains.com members> WATCH: BIG SKIES & IRON RAILS VIDEOS] MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Rail Link will end its long-term lease on BNSF Railway lines in its namesake state, Idaho, and Washington, with BNSF resuming operation of those routes, MRL President Derek Ollmann told employees in a memo today (Monday, Jan. 10). No timeline for the […]
Trains Magazine Staff Carl Swanson, Editor cswanson@kalmbach.com A veteran railroad editor and journalist, Carl Swanson was named editor of Trains, the nation’s largest-circulation railroad-industry publication in April 2022. Carl came to Trains from Model Railroader, where he served as editor for three years. Before that he led Kalmbach’s Classic Toy Trains for 13 years. As […]
FULL SCREEN David Kahler To my delight I found not one, but two concrete coaling towers straddling the BAR rail yard. Originally the towers were connected with an overhead conveyer for coal. The left tower was primary and supplied coal for BAR freight locomotives while the right tower provided coal for the Maine Central passenger […]
