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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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ArticleThe black bridge

The rise and fall of a Santa Fe yard span in Belen, N.M. If his freight yard were a pir­ate ship, Santa Fe Rail­way yard­mas­ter Adam B. Baca cap­tained from the crow’s nest. For dec­ades, he ascen­ded to a metal-clad cabin atop a steel ped­es­trian...

The black bridge

ArticleDome ter­rit­ory

It’s a fine view in the Rock­ies from VIA Rail train No. 1 F M H D M CA S A S, pas­sen­gers aboard VIA Rail train No. 1 have a spec­tac­u­lar view of the moody peaks of the Cana­dian Rock­ies on July 19, 2013. The west­bound Cana­dian has a green...

Dome ter­rit­ory

ArticleTehachapi at 150

Count­less trains have had this very same battle with Tehachapi ter­rain since South­ern Pacific opened the route 150 years ago, in Septem­ber 1876. Rail­road­ing unfolds in slow motion on Tehachapi Loop. That’s partly because of how far you can see...

Tehachapi at 150