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: Quebec North Shore & Labrador Runs North America’s Heaviest Train
Bonus Content: Read a free PDF of the article, “Tomorrow’s Railroad,” on the Quebec North Shore & Labrador from the November 1960 issue. And, check out a video taken from a locomotive cab of a herd of caribou charging alongside a QNS&L train!
Welcome to Larry Land
Map of the Month: Great Lakes Carferries
Two Steel Mills, Both Alike
Bonus Content: See the steel railroads’ locomotive and railcar rosters
From Electric to Diesel
One lump or two?
In My Own Words: Espee Pit Stop in Baltimore
NEWS
News & Photos
• Watco acquires Wisconsin & Southern
• Canadian National links Chicago routes
Don Phillips
Fred Frailey
Locomotive
• Union Pacific ramps up Tier 4 tests
Technology
Passenger
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Plainclothes civilians pay homage to Amtrak’s 40th anniversary train in Milwaukee, but why?
Ask Trains
• Bridges, viaducts, and trestles
• Nitrogen blankets
• Ewbank gas-electric locomotive
Trackside
Georgia Central offers a bounty of U23Bs on a former Seaboard Air Line route to the sea
Preservation
• Famous Norfolk & Western Bicentennial unit will shine again at Virginia Museum of Transportation
• Chinese Mike debuts in new attire at Connecticut’s Valley Railroad
