Train Watching

Follow along with Trains editors and staff as we watch beautiful trains around the world in operation.
Trains Presents: Norfolk Southern F units and office car train

Trains Presents: Norfolk Southern F units and office car train

Norfolk Southern's office car train, complete with classic EMD F units for power, is a...

Trains Presents: Steam photo freight charters

Trains Presents: Steam photo freight charters

The age of steam has passed from revenue railroading in the U.S., but a dedicated...

Trains Presents: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train

Trains Presents: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train

Children of all ages love the circus – and the circus train! See the famous...

Trains Presents: Former Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501

Trains Presents: Former Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501

Former Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501 is one of the most famous excursion locomotives in...

Trains Presents: Virginia & Truckee Railroad steam

Trains Presents: Virginia & Truckee Railroad steam

Nevada's famed Virginia & Truckee Railroad, once the richest railroad in the world saw a...

Trains Presents: Western Maryland Scenic Railroad steam freights

Trains Presents: Western Maryland Scenic Railroad steam freights

See Western Maryland Scenic Railroad pull winter photo freights out of Cumberland, Md., on the...

611: the video!

611: the video!

Norfolk & Western No. 611 is back in steam and Trains was there to capture...

Leviathan in steam

Leviathan in steam

David Kloke tells Trains readers about his latest project to build a replica of President Abraham...

Logging road, take me home!

Logging road, take me home!

Stand next to Trains' Steve Sweeney with video from Cass Scenic Railroad's annual railfan weekend...

Saginaw Timber 2-8-2 No. 2 steam test

Saginaw Timber 2-8-2 No. 2 steam test

Editor Jim Wrinn captured this time lapse video on October 10, 2014, of a day's...

Big Boy No. 4014’s return to Cheyenne

Big Boy No. 4014’s return to Cheyenne

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 returned to Cheyenne, Wyo., on May 8, 2014, and...

Main line steaming with Southern No. 630

Main line steaming with Southern No. 630

Watch Southern Railway 2-8-0 Consolidation No. 630 operating in main line excursion service out of...

Afternoon switching with Whitewater Valley No. 25

Afternoon switching with Whitewater Valley No. 25

Join Trains' Steve Sweeney on a trip to the Whitewater Valley Railroad in December 2013....

Chasing 4014: Part III

Chasing 4014: Part III

This video segment covers the time from when Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 first...

Chasing 4014 Part II

Chasing 4014 Part II

This second installment of videos from Trains' zany chase of Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 from...

Big Boy Time Lapse Video Nov. 2013

Big Boy Time Lapse Video Nov. 2013

Join Trains' Editor Jim Wrinn on a three-day adventure watching Union Pacific Big Boy-type No....

Norfolk Southern’s Rat Hole

Norfolk Southern’s Rat Hole

Join us for an interview with two experts on the tunnel district of the Southern...

Action on Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor!

Action on Norfolk Southern’s Crescent Corridor!

It’s not often you get to see railroad history in the making, but these video...

John and Barney Gramling and their tank engines

John and Barney Gramling and their tank engines

Big South Fork Scenic Railway in action

Big South Fork Scenic Railway in action

The Big South Fork Scenic Railway is a tourist line in Stearns, Ky., and formerly the...