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
Inside America’s Newest Roundhouse
Ohio Central’s Jerry Joe Jacobson builds a private home for his steam stable
Bonus Content: See video of the roundhouse
Passenger Trains Where Roads Don’t Go
In remote pockets of Ontario and Quebec, wide-ranging services provide a lifeline to the rest of Canada
Map of the Month: Heart of the Water Level Route
CSX and Amtrak keep Vanderbilt’s Albany-Utica, N.Y., trackage humming
Ageless Grand Central Kicks Off Its Second Century
America’s grandest railroad space is busier, and more wondrous, than ever
Bonus Content: Take a historic look back at Grand Central Terminal during the early and middle 20th century in this photo slideshow
InnoTrans: The World’s Greatest Railroad Show
Part showroom, part circus, all business
Bonus Content: Watch video shot during Germany’s InnoTrans 2012
Difference of Decades: City of the Big Shoulders
A lot has changed at Lake Street Tower in Chicago
In My Own Words: In the Hole
A lot of things didn’t work on Michigan Northern’s old Alco, but the alarm bell sure did
NEWS
News and Photos
- Hurricane Sandy’s impact lingers
- CSX navigates a new economy
- Norfolk Southern salutes the troops
- California’s Colton flyover takes shape
- Election advances many local rail initiatives
- Detroit may join commuter rail movement, again
Don Phillips
With a win for Obama, the passenger train gets four more years
Fred W. Frailey
As coal wanes, what comes next for railroads?
Locomotive
A new shop for Iowa Interstate
Passenger
The Maine ‘Downeaster’ extends to Brunswick
Technology
A new process reduces damage in axles
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Taking a closer look at the grade-crossing nightmare in Texas
Ask Trains
• Oldest metal bridge
• Cedar Hill Yard
• Fairbanks-Morse C-Liners
Preservation
Trains’ $10,000 grant goes to Pennsy passenger car power
Trackside
High-traffic treat: Joliet Union Station
Bonus Content
See our “updated map” from the December 2012 issue charting railroading’s highest points and steepest grades
