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Trains Magazine Back Issues May 2012

May 2012

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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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.

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Features

Free Trains Express May 2012 PDF

This month’s PDF package of stories about Western Maryland Railway is free to subscribers

FREE PULLOUT GUIDE

Ride This Train!
Your 2012 railroad fun guide to tourist trains and railroad museums

Cover Story: 13 Steam Engines for 2012

By Jim Wrinn

Saturating the year with steam locomotives you’ll want to see, we anticipate two more and mourn an Old Reliable friend

Bonus Content: Check out our interactive map of these steam engines!

Hand-in-Hand

By Jim Wrinn

How innovative partnerships are changing railway preservation. Plus, the seven biggest blunders in saving railroad history

Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

By Shirley Culpin

Six people found a way to breathe life into a locomotive and then a railroad they call the Alberni Pacific

Map of the Month: Southern Before Norfolk Southern and 30 Years Later

By Bill Metzger

The ‘Green Light’ railroad had more than 40 lines; its main lines serve NS well today

Oil Trains in the Wheat Fields

By Fred W. Frailey

The bonanza in North Dakota and what it means to railroads

Two Lines, Two Fates in the Alleghenies

By Bill Metzger

Baltimore & Ohio and Western Maryland built parallel mountain railroads in Pennsylvania. Only one survived

The Terror of 304

By Michael Gillespie

A baggageman learns a lesson from a hard-nosed, old-time railroader

NEWS

News & Photos

  • Midwest trains reach 110 mph
  • Where do the Big Six railroads plan to spend money?
  • Three crew die in VIA Rail derailment

Don Phillips

Railroads are spending big for the future, and waging a savvy political battle in Washington

Fred W. Frailey

Canadian Pacific is inefficiently and ineffectively run. Hunter Harrison will shake things up

Passenger

By Bob Johnston

2012 brings more chances to ride in private railcars

Technology

By Steve Sweeney

Research into crash energy management shows promise in making rail travel safer than ever

Locomotive

By Chris Guss

Norfolk Southern will field 18 heritage units

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

The magic of steam locomotives

Ask Trains

• Pennsy K4s No. 1361 status
• Why long hood vs. short?
• Spacing of steam ‘chuffs’

Preservation

By John P. Hankey
North American Railway Foundation supports preservation causes

Trackside

By Drew Halverson
Trackside Guide: Birmingham, Ala.

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