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
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Little Trains, Big Dreams
Map of the Month: Narrow to Standard
Where Narrow Gauge Freight Still Runs
Bonus Content: See a roster of locomotives that worked the USG.
One With the Railroad
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Shangri-La is a State of Mind
Read Trains magazine’s first online interactive article!
Midnight in Durango
Good for 50 More
Return to the Land of Narrow Gauge
Nitrates on Narrow Gauge
Bonus Content: See more photos of GE box-cabs in action through the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Railroad Reading: The Stop at East Villanova
NEWS
News & Photos
Don Phillips
Fred Frailey
Technology
Locomotive
Passenger
City Rail
Bonus Content: See a map of Washington, D.C.’s Dulles Metrorail.
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Narrow gauge gets in your DNA
Fantrip
West Virginia’s Elkhorn Inn offers views of Norfolk Southern’s Pocahontas Division
Preservation
Train Festival 2009
Ask Trains
Tank-car heaters • New York commuter projects • Slide rule use in the 1860s