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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.
Features
Pennsylvanias Colorful Commerce
Pennsylvania has more railroad than any other state – and intends to keep it that way
Gulf & Ohio Spreads its Wings
Pete Claussen’s eight successful Southeastern short lines do the work Class Is don’t want to do. See
G&O’s current roster!
Map of the Month: Railroads in Metal Competition
Searching for gold, silver, and a mineral called molybdenum at Leadville, Colo., in 1905
Los Angeles Junction Railway extends dozens of lines throughout the wall-to-wall concrete that is L.A.
It started with an 11-year-old’s desire to have friends ride a train, but now he wants to take along as many people as he can – and renovate cars for the handicapped
Short on Length, But Long on Strength: Cadiz Railroad pulls through with seconds to spare after a threat to be shut down
Port of Tillamook Bay SD9s in the Salmonberry River Canyon, Chicago & North Western F3 in Waterville, Minn., Amtrak AEM7 at Penn Station, and BNSF Dash-9s on Montana’s Mullan Pass
NEWS
CSX fights back against hedge funds
New air brake system for short lines
Washing diesel locomotives
Maine Eastern’s passenger trains alleviate traffic
Southern California’s Sprinter reaches the finish line
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
A long letter about Mr. Shortline
Fantrip
Slow life down with speeder trips
Preservation
A roundhouse rises from rubble
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