Trains magazine covers the broad spectrum of railroading with authoritative content, dazzling photography, and a mix of content designed to appeal to everyone from the casual enthusiast to the seasoned professional railroader.
Trains offers something for everyone who has a spark for railroading: Railroad news, insight, and commentary on today’s freight railroads, passenger service, transit, locomotives, technology, preservation, fan opportunities, and more. You’ll also see images and read stories from railroading’s glorious past, and explore the bright future of railroading. It’s all in the pages of Trains magazine.
Trains offers something for everyone who has a spark for railroading: Railroad news, insight, and commentary on today’s freight railroads, passenger service, transit, locomotives, technology, preservation, fan opportunities, and more. You’ll also see images and read stories from railroading’s glorious past, and explore the bright future of railroading. It’s all in the pages of Trains magazine.
Features
Amtrak’s food fight
Congress is trying to decide whether your next meal on Amtrak will look like fine dining or fast food.
Silver Bullet by rail
From hops to finished beer, Coors takes the train.
Rolling restaurants
As with any business, dinner trains demand a lot of work and a certain amount of savvy to succeed.
Getting enough iron in your diet?
Some eateries are intertwined with railroading. Here are three of our favorites.
Meals by Fred Harvey
Get to know the man, the food, the Girls, the Santa Fe trains, and the legacy.
The best on wheels
For nearly a century, the reputation of many U.S. railroads rode on their dining cars.
Cooking on the coal scoop
Where there are hungry railroaders and a live steam engine, there shall be hot food. Even today.
Map of the Month: Dinner hour on the Pennsy
See where the Pennsylvania Railroad’s dining cars were on a Sunday evening in 1938, as if frozen in time.
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
CSX restores Gulf Coast service; Amtrak mulls new trains.
Don Phillips
Alas, poor railroad food, we knew ye well.
Tom Murray
When I think of great railroad food, I think of…
Technology
Union Pacific goes for a new type of switcher.
Locomotives
Doyle McCormacks’s PA progress; new units for BNSF, CN.
Passenger
Luxury trains mix fine dining, equipment, and scenery.
City Rail
Chicago Metra begins service on three line expansions.
Fantrip
NJ Transit cancels plans for photo permit.
Preservation
This group has a one-track mind for a diner.
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