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
Rat Hole revisited
See the video here!
Of searchlight signals, F40s, and an interlocking tower
See the photo gallery here!
Map of the Month: Northern New England: 1954/2013
Blueprints for prosperity
Underloved but dependable
Keeping up with the Pullmans
In My Own Words: A brace of turkeys on the point
NEWS
News & Photos
- California HSR: Ready to launch?
- New Florida commuter operator unveils first equipment
- Colton Flyover project: ahead of schedule, under budget
- Ohio short line gets $1.5 million
- Lac-Mégantic crude oil found more volatile
- Floods ravage Colorado railroads
- Metra rebounds from management shake-up
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Locomotive
- Behind the sheet metal are important components that make today’s locomotives the safest ever
- Builders offer new Tier 4 products
- Indiana Rail Road opens new shop
- Amtrak tests new ACS-64 Sprinter locomotives
Technology
- New York Air Brake DB-60 II gaining railroad interest
- Flood warning system debuts on MTA Maryland
- GAO doubtful on PTC deadlines
- Union Pacific testing concept wedge to increase fuel efficiency
- FRA panel set to consider crew sizes
Passenger
- New Talgos aid ‘Cascades’ service
- VIA Rail suspends Gaspé Peninsula train
- Four states miss Oct. 1 deadline in Amtrak funding negotiations
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
There is life left in coal, just look at Pier 6; a welcome promotion; Trains News Wire is expanding
Ask Trains
Ask Trains answers: “Why are electric locomotives often the same size or larger than diesels?”; “Do any Florida East Coast BL2s still exist?”; “Do British railroads really still use ‘hook-and-screw’ couplers?”; and more!
Preservation
Beloved Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501 will debut improvements when it rolls out of the shop. PLUS: Steaming photos of Central Railroad of New Jersey 0-6-0 No. 113; Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 4-6-2 No. 403; and Reading & Northern 4-6-2 No. 425.
Trackside: Blades in New Mexico
Find out where to see Amtrak under semaphore signals in the desert Southwest before it is too late!
