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
Hollywood’s locomotive
When the producers of the animated Polar Express went looking for a locomotive, they found Pere Marquette 1225.
Network intermodal battles trucks
European railways are regaining business – and their secret weapon is the hump yard!
Mail train to Beatlemania
Thanks to the Old Reliable, I got to see the Fab Four in one of their last concerts.
Railroad Blueprint: Maybrook, N.Y.
One yard, six railroads, cars by the thousands: the Northeast’s melting pot.
Map of the Month: NYC facilities, 1960
New York Central was the largest Eastern railroad in terms of mileage in the 1960s, and it required quite an infrastructure.
NEWS
Railroad News & Photos
BNSF opens second flyover junction in Kansas City area.
Don Phillips
Transportation needs a real total breakdown. Is anyone listening?
Mark W. Hemphill
Subsidies for all or subsidies for none: You’ve got to choose.
Locomotives
UP finally has its renumbering practice down to a science.
Passenger
Service reductions undo the seams of Amtrak’s American quilt.
City Rail
Dallas Area Rapid Transit expands light rail to Victory Station.
Preservation
North Judson, Ind., preserves 33-mile line.
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