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
Rising Phoenix…on a winged shield
How the Union Pacific stumbled, again, is an interesting story. How it is coming back is a better one.
Royal train
Four days of luxury travel aboard the Royal Canadian Pacific, in the style of heads of state, makes it difficult to return to reality.
Caltrain’s commuter choreography
Express trains and four-track main lines are common in the East. But for Bay Area commuters, Clatrain’s new Baby Bullet expresses are a big deal. No wonder riders are loving it.
Map of the Month: ACL+SAL merger study
“The new railroad is here,” announced the Seaboard Coast Line in 1967 – a merger 10 years in the making. Its underlying philosophy: Move the tonnage where tonnage could move most directly.
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
Freight-car orders rise in 2004; CP lands more bridge traffic.
Don Phillips
Lessons for U.S. passenger rail from British Rail.
Mark W. Hemphill
Why train crews still don’t know when they’ll work.
Locomotives
Former Amtrak F40s find new life in freight service.
Passenger
Cutting the Three Rivers may save other Amtrak trains.
City Rail
Washington, D.C. Metro budget situation improves.
Preservation
Kansas City Union Station gets FP9.
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