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: Locomotives for the Little Guys
The Rock Island is A-OK
Bonus Content: Learn more about Arkansas-Oklahoma’s locomotive fleet
Shortline Railroading Isn’t Always Chicken Scratch
Where Alcos Tough It Out
The Kaolin Road
Map of the Month: Whatever Happened to Southern Pacific?
A ‘Rare’ Trackside Delivery
NEWS
News & Photos
- Canadian Pacific’s facts of life
- Florida East Coast to explore passenger operations
- ‘New’ rotary for Donner Pass
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Locomotive
Share your NS Heritage Unit photos with us: www.flickr.com/groups/1884885@N24/
And, see all the units right here: Norfolk Southern powers up its heritage
Technology
- The science of railroad friction control
- Coupler tolerances to tighten
Passenger
- New schedule for Amtrak’s ‘Sunset’
- Talgo tests begin
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
When shortline units have names
Ask Trains
• Tracks in the PGA Tour?
• Amtrak’s P40s
• Ann Arbor’s ore jennies
Preservation
By Andrew Dow
Australia’s ‘Puffing Billy’ is one of the world’s ‘must see’ preservation railways
Trackside
By Elrond Lawrence
Trackside Guide: Flagstaff, Ariz.
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