January 2025

The January 2025 issue of Trains Magazine.

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In this Issue

The Astrodome’s forgotten passenger fleet

The mystery of the Pullman sleeping car hotel that never was

Concrete giants

Four viaducts on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western are engineering

California’s high-speed visionary

Rod Diridon, Sr. has gone from trainman to having a passenger station named after him

400 miles in 400 minutes

Remembering Chicago & North Western’s steam-era speed champion

In My Own Words: “They call him 'Bear'"

The tale of one impressive night on the Illinois Central Gulf

Gallery

Jon Bentz shares images from the 1980s to the present.

In every issue

News, p. 6

  • CSX and Norfolk Southern hit hard by Hurricane Helene

Bill Stephens, p. 10

  •  Railroads should use steam to polish their images

John Hankey, p. 12

  •  The enduring connection between Christmas and trains

Great Railfan Roads, p. 44

  • Rail action on both banks of the upper Mississippi River

Brian Solomon, p. 48

  • Is it time to preserve an Amtrak Genesis locomotive?

Preservation, p. 49

  • The female-led Northern Central Railway names new operations superintendent