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
Railroads in the Streets
Running freight trains down the middle of a street seems absurd now, but it made sense when the tracks were laid. Learn where and why railroads ran in the streets … in the past as well as the present
Scranton’s Tangled Steel Web
This northeastern Pennsylvania railroad center was a maze of tracks – as this 1939 map shows
Trains/Canon Photo Contest 2007
This year we asked you to “Think Small” and you gave us great images. Check out our choices, and start planning for next year’s contest
Crossroads of New England
With five railroads and 5,000 people , could White River Junction, Vt., be the best-served railroad town in America?
Railroad Reading
The last of its kind: Snowden Bridge still stands proud as one of Montana’s greatest engineering feats
Gallery
Wisconsin Central SD45s lead an ore train near Stevens Point, Wis., in 1995
NEWS
News & Photos
Triple-tracking Cajon Pass
Don Phillips
Tom Murray
Technology
Intermodal alternatives to RoadRailer
Locomotive
Old GEs likely to leave Michigan soon
Passenger
Amtrak ridership surges, study urges expansion
City Rail
Light rail warmly received in Charlotte, N.C.
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Out of the past, into the future
Ask Trains
Fantrip
Where Dash 9s and antelope play
Preservation
More Chinese steam arrives
