Join Trains Digital Editor Steve Sweeney for a Swiss narrow gauge mountain railroad adventure on the Albula Pass. Watch as scheduled passenger and freight trains operate on the Rhaetian Railway’s extensive meter gauge line over the Alps between Preda and Bergun, Switzerland. Information on how to visit Switzerland with Trains in 2019 is available online. […]
The westbound New River Train with there Amtrak P42DCs and a 30-car passenger car consist rolls along its namesake river on its journey to Huntington, W.Va., from Hinton, W.Va., on Oct. 29 2017. Chase Gunnoe HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — After 52 years of operating mainline passenger excursions between the West Virginia cities of Huntington and Hinton, […]
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Central of Georgia’s 500-series Consolidations possessed good lines accented by interesting detail: visored headlight, capped stack, serif numerals, striped sandbox, generous cab. Classic Trains collection An alligator crosshead moving back and forth on its greased guides to the dictates of a hot piston rod; the hurried, hollow sighs up the stack as a pair of […]
NRHS is selling events for its annual convention in conjunction with the transcontinental railroad anniversary. Some events are already sold out. Trains: Jim Wrinn SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – With registration open one week for the National Railway Historical Society’s annual convention in May, the nation’s largest railroad enthusiast organization is reporting that some events […]
Join Trains on a visit to a track work project in a Swiss tunnel. Rhomberg Sersa and the Rhaetian Railway invited Trains to see how they re-build meter-gauge track in often grueling conditions in September 2018. See Steve Sweeney’s full story in the March 2019 issue of Trains, THE magazine of railroading! […]
While not technically perfect, this photo of L&N C628s under the sanding gantry at Corbin, Ky., remains a treasured link to an earlier time. Ron Flanary As a young railfan growing up in central Appalachia in the late 1950s and early ’60s, my only link to fellow enthusiasts was through the pulp pages of Railroad magazine, or the […]
Jim Shaughnessy MADISON, Wis. – They were innovators in a medium that resisted change. One captured the change from steam to diesel then kept right on going, the other offered a new vision in the emerging diesel era. They were Jim Shaughnessy and John Gruber, giants of railroad photography who we lost in 2018. Jim […]
Heislers are rare geared steam locomotives. One in steam is even more rare. Join us in Freeport, Ill., to see Silver Creek & Stephenson No. 2 in action. […]
Heislers are rare geared steam locomotives. One in steam is even more rare. Join us in Freeport, Ill., to see Silver Creek & Stephenson No. 2 in action. […]
Watch the Union Pacific funeral train for George H.W. Bush as it crosses Texas. You’ll see SD70ACe No. 4141, painted and lettered for our 41st president, do the honors while thousands of people line the tracks to pay their respects. […]
Check out the 2018 Canadian Pacific Holiday Train at Milwaukee with Trains‘ Editor Jim Wrinn! You’ll see the spectacle of the train arriving under the recently rebuilt train shed and the fabulous musical performers that travel with the train thanks to special access granted to Trains by Canadian Pacific. The train has gathered 4.3 million […]
