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
Survivor
Bonus Content: Check out our detailed Montana Rail Link locomotive roster and photo gallery
A week in the life of a short line
A recipe for success
Bonus Content: See video clips of SMV and the Southern Pacific’s sugar beet operation
Ed Ellis: His railroads and his dream
In My Own Words
NEWS
News & Photos
Coal’s decline hits the East
Don Phillips: Acela, Apples, Watermelons – and profit?
Fred W. Frailey: Bigger than the switch from steam
Technology: Vertical Split Rim Wheels
Passenger: How Illinois ramped up to 110 mph
Locomotive: ABCs of LNG locomotive fuel
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Wandering reminds us of constant change, but also of what remains in railroading Bonus Content: See a video of the Big South Fork Scenic Railway
Preservation
Southern Pacific “Daylight” working through 15-year inspection
Trackside
Montana’s Glacier National Park is the landscape for BNSF’s Rocky Mountain Crossing Find our new “Hot Spots Guidebook”
Ask Trains
How do you start a short line railroad?
