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
Cover Story: America Needs More Union Pacific
Map of the Month: All-Time Guide to Sherman Hill
Transcontinental Transformation
Bonus Content: View more historic photos of the Union Pacific Railroad under construction
Opportunity and Expertise
Bonus Content: See additional photos by Wallace W. Abbey
Symphonic Railroading
Bonus Content: See more photos of Hokkaido operations, including the “shooting star” paint scheme on JR Hokkaido’s DD51s
In My Own Words: The Devil’s on Top of the Details
NEWS
News & Photos
- Big changes ahead for Canadian Pacific
- 6 million to 8 million Olympic spectators to use trains in London
- Virginia’s new Amtrak service Mountaineer from Norfolk to Chicago
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Locomotive
Bonus Content: See Senior Editor Matt Van Hattem’s blog about NS’s first heritage unit, Conrail
Technology
Bonus Content: Of what is discussed on pages 18 and 19, which topics interest you most?
Passenger
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Union Pacific has many faces, from proud and perplexing to downright friendly
Ask Trains
• Heat restrictions
• Lunar signals
• ‘Railroad-approved’ watches
Trackside
Trackside Guide: Baltimore
Preservation
• Where are the operating steam locomotives in 2012?
• East Broad Top closed
