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.
I watched the world of railroading evolve from the porch of my grandparents’ rooming house on the Louisville & Nashville Subscribers can enjoy free stories on the Louisville & Nashville in eastern Kentucky.
Trains were drawn to Buffalo like iron filings to magnets. Here is the city at its most tangled, when 11 trunkline railroads and three short lines moved thousands of cars a day
Missed by a gnat’s eyelash: Experience a near collision through the eyes of a railroad deputy special agent on a ride-along in Texas
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Santa Fe’s Barstow Yard, Canadian Pacific in the Rockies, the circus train crossing the Wabash River, Alcos on the Piedmont & Northern, two B39-8s bracket three B30-7s in Worcester, Mass.
