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: Conrail Lives!
How it serves two masters in three big cities, while staying mostly out of sight
The Ghosts of Railroading
Check out a few relics of railroads that the Grim Reaper missed along the Pacific Northwest landscape
Map of the Month: Missouri Pacific Tons and Facilities, 1956
See how traffic moved across MP’s 11,000-mile system
The Last Logger, Eh?
One Canadian short line still hauls logs through the lush mountains and rainforests of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island
That Darn Rabbit
On Norfolk Southern’s mountainous Murphy Branch, train crews never know what may pop out of the underbrush
Night on Ballard Terminal
A short line prowls a neighborhood’s streets with a 72-year-old SW1
When the Boss Needs Something to Eat
NEWS
News & Photos
- Genesee & Wyoming Inc. hopes to acquire rival RailAmerica
- Amtrak dreams big with Washington Union Station renovation
- CSX National Gateway Project and new container terminal bring changes to Ohio
Don Phillips
Fred W. Frailey
Locomotive
Builder’s plates are the ultimate reference point in the life of a locomotive
Technology
A European company offers a way to test rail equipment for service without leaving home
Passenger
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
What we can learn from the heritage units
Ask Trains
• Pennsy’s Hudson tunnels
• Pilot steps, end footboards
• K-28 air pump location
Preservation
• A famous British steam locomotive endures an incredible extraction from a museum
• Nickel Plate Road No. 765 takes to the main line again
• Georgetown Loop Shay No. 9 takes over for 2-6-2 No. 12 in the Colorado Rockies
Trackside
Trackside Guide: Chicago — Racetrack
