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Trains is the #1 magazine among railroad enthusiasts! Each issue is packed with probing features, railroad news, expert commentary, cutting-edge industry reports, detailed maps, and spectacular photography covering railroading's influential history and exciting future.

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ArticleAmer­ica at 250

The nation as we know it could not exist without its rail­roads Still unima­gin­able without the iron horse IN HONOR OF THE BICENTENNIAL, Trains Editor David P. Mor­gan splashed six words across the cover of the July 1976 issue: AMERICA,...

Amer­ica at 250

ArticleNews & Ana­lysis

A FIRST VISIT to the East Coast. A ren­dez­vous with a former sta­blem­ate. An excur­sion on the Read­ing & North­ern, includ­ing a meet with R&N 4-8-4 No. 2102, which will lead a trip on the same day. And the Fourth of July in Phil­adelphia, where the...

News & Ana­lysis

ArticleSteel City hunt

Pitt­s­burgh was home to myriad Bicen­ten­nial loco­mot­ives large, small, and worthy of film In the Bicen­ten­nial era, Pitt­s­burgh’s once-extens­ive com­muter rail oper­a­tions were down to a small oper­a­tion on former B&O track­age, and a single...

Steel City hunt

ArticleChanges since ‘76

How eight major changes have reshaped the industry in the years since the Bicen­ten­nial Seen a Sears store lately? Once the nation’s largest retailer, Sears has faded to just five out­lets, and they’ll soon be gone. Block­buster Video is but a single...

Changes since ‘76