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April 2012 | ModelRailroader.com
By Charlie Duckworth | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
April 2012
By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
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Trains magazine covers the broad spectrum of railroading with authoritative content, dazzling photography, and a mix of content designed to appeal to everyone from the casual enthusiast to the seasoned professional railroader.
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.
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
Trains Express April 2012 Downloadable PDF Package
This month’s PDF package on the General and ore railroad legends and myths is $5.95
Cover Story: Searching for the Andrews Raiders
One hundred fifty years later, the Great Locomotive Chase still echoes along CSX tracks in north Georgia
Speed and Spectacle
The incredible run of Death Valley Scotty, and why he was a complete fraud
Bonus Content: Download or page through Santa Fe’s commemorative booklet on the Scott Special
Railroads and the Sinking of ‘Titantic’
When R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, it changed the course of North American railroad history
Who was the Steel Drivin’ Man?
Did John Henry fight the steam drill at Great Bend Tunnel or was it a tall tale?
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
The outlaws made Union Pacific mad enough to send a posse out for them
Track 61
The who’s who of Grand Central’s secret Track 61: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Alco PAs, Andy Warhol, and more
Capone Rides the Rails to Alcatraz
Al “Scarface” Capone rode trains coast to coast, sometimes by choice and sometimes by force. Discover his many faces as a businessman, family man, crime boss, and train enthusiast
NEWS
News & Photos
- Canadian Pacific fights to save its president
- Lockout precedes Electro-Motive London, Ont., factory closure
- Amtrak-Canadian National battle
Don Phillips
Dangerous fad prompts Union Pacific photo policy
Locomotive
By David Lustig
Making sense of the Environmental Production Agency’s locomotive emissions tiers
Making sense of the Environmental Production Agency’s locomotive emissions tiers
By Chris Guss
BNSF to buy new SD70ACe-P4
Passenger
Faster times on main VIA corridor
Fred Frailey
My love affair with VIA Rail Canada’s Canadian
Technology
GE’s RailEdge enables NS to increase train volumes, decrease expenses
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Railroading is a business that’s never boring
Ask Trains
• Operating in push vs. pull
• Land grants
• Odd-looking signal
Preservation
By Bob Johnston
Pullman Sleeping Car Co. to use vintage cars to offer traditional sleeper service on two Amtrak trains
Trackside
By Mike Schaller
Trackside Guide: Arlington, Va.
