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
Creating a Sunset
When it set out to solve its operating problems on the Sunset Corridor, UP thought big. Here’s what it’s up to – and why.
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Map of the Month: Burlington Freight, 1947
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy served shippers across an 11,000-mile system with a mix of daily freights, extras, locals, and mine runs.
Haulin’ Gas
On a railroad that prides itself on serving its customers, Montana Rail Link’s Gas Local is the crown jewel of its operation.
The Invisible Derailment
If a RoadRailer trailer derails in the middle of the night and nobody notices, does it still derail?
The Wiscasset Dream Reborn
See how this Maine two-footer came back to life with a vengeance.
Railroad Reading
All in the Family: A rookie baggage clerk makes a quick decision he’ll never live down.
Gallery
BNSF double-stacks in idaho, U.S. Steel F7s in Wyoming, and Durango & Silverton Mikado No. 473 in the Colorado Rockies.
NEWS
News & Photos
Three tracks run the length of Wyoming coal line
Don Phillips
Dan Ranger
Technology
Railroads and mines study ways to reduce coal dust
Locomotive
End of the line for the SD90MAC?
Passenger
With Talgos sidelined, Amtrak juggles equipment
City Rail
Utah takes lead in expanding rail transit
DEPARTMENTS
Fantrip
Want to build a railroad park?
Preservation
Legendary line lives on
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