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Our latest Trains Express PDF package gives you five Amtrak stories, one article on DM&E expansion to the Powder River Basin, and one story on the Rock Island, available to subscribers for $3.95.
Trains' Formula for Fixing Amtrak
Memo to President Obama: Here's our proposal for making passenger rail viable. But understand this: If you want to reform Amtrak, first reform America's transportation policies. Otherwise, we'll still be sitting in traffic.
By Rush Loving Jr.
2008 Trains/Canon Photo Contest Winners
See which of the compelling images you sent us best illustrated the "Changing of the Guard" in railroading today.
Black Hills Gold
The former owners of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern got into the railroad business for $26 million in 1986, then sold it for $1.48 billion. Their story starts here.
By Andy Cummings
Map of the Month: Rock Island Today
In 1964, the Rock Island had '7,849 miles of modern railroad.' We show you who runs this mighty fine road today.
By Bill Metzger and Matt Van Hattem
From Public to Private
Texas State Railroad bucks the trend and goes from public ownership to private - with the help of Thomas the Tank Engine, Polar Express and, yes, even the Lone Ranger.
By Jim Wrinn
Railroad Reading
Overloaded and Undermanned: a Baltimore & Ohio track foreman dodges disaster in one of the railroad's many tunnels
By Lonniel A. Rape
Gallery
Huancayo-Huancavelica Railway in the Andes Mountains of Peru; a BNSF grain train near Lynd, Minn.
By Assorted photographers
Our latest Trains Express PDF package gives you five Amtrak stories, one article on DM&E expansion to the Powder River Basin, and one story on the Rock Island, available to subscribers for $3.95.
Trains' Formula for Fixing Amtrak
Memo to President Obama: Here's our proposal for making passenger rail viable. But understand this: If you want to reform Amtrak, first reform America's transportation policies. Otherwise, we'll still be sitting in traffic.
By Rush Loving Jr.
2008 Trains/Canon Photo Contest Winners
See which of the compelling images you sent us best illustrated the "Changing of the Guard" in railroading today.
Black Hills Gold
The former owners of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern got into the railroad business for $26 million in 1986, then sold it for $1.48 billion. Their story starts here.
By Andy Cummings
Map of the Month: Rock Island Today
In 1964, the Rock Island had '7,849 miles of modern railroad.' We show you who runs this mighty fine road today.
By Bill Metzger and Matt Van Hattem
From Public to Private
Texas State Railroad bucks the trend and goes from public ownership to private - with the help of Thomas the Tank Engine, Polar Express and, yes, even the Lone Ranger.
By Jim Wrinn
Railroad Reading
Overloaded and Undermanned: a Baltimore & Ohio track foreman dodges disaster in one of the railroad's many tunnels
By Lonniel A. Rape
Gallery
Huancayo-Huancavelica Railway in the Andes Mountains of Peru; a BNSF grain train near Lynd, Minn.
By Assorted photographers
