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June 2013 | ModelRailroader.com
By Mike Tricker | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
June 2013
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
Survivor
Here’s how Montana Rail Link has managed to survive for more than 25 years, and how it plans to prosper — even beyond the year 2047
Bonus Content: Check out our detailed Montana Rail Link locomotive roster and photo gallery
A week in the life of a short line
Despite bitter cold, a derailment, and delays, Vermont Rail System keeps rolling
A recipe for success
From oil to sugar to frozen vegetables, Pacific Coast short line, Santa Maria Valley, has mixed together 100 years of satisfied customers
Bonus Content: See video clips of SMV and the Southern Pacific’s sugar beet operation
Ed Ellis: His railroads and his dream
He is convinced Americans will want to relive the Pullman era. And he has the money to find out
In My Own Words
One engineer’s career may have ended, but his family’s legacy continues
NEWS
News & Photos
Coal’s decline hits the East
Don Phillips: Acela, Apples, Watermelons – and profit?
Amtrak’s Acela does not make money. It hemorrhages money while the blame for losses is shifted
Fred W. Frailey: Bigger than the switch from steam
Using natural gas as locomotive fuel means big up-front costs, but huge savings for railroads
Technology: Vertical Split Rim Wheels
Researchers studying rare railroad wheel failure find it hard to determine the cause
Passenger: How Illinois ramped up to 110 mph
Test segment on Chicago-St. Louis line becomes launching pad for new grade-crossing technology
Locomotive: ABCs of LNG locomotive fuel
How BNSF Railway and Canadian National railroad will go about testing liquefied natural gas technology
DEPARTMENTS
From the Editor
Wandering reminds us of constant change, but also of what remains in railroading Bonus Content: See a video of the Big South Fork Scenic Railway
Preservation
Southern Pacific “Daylight” working through 15-year inspection
Trackside
Montana’s Glacier National Park is the landscape for BNSF’s Rocky Mountain Crossing Find our new “Hot Spots Guidebook”
Ask Trains
How do you start a short line railroad?
June 2013
By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
Garden Railways has been the leading magazine devoted to the hobby of outdoor, large-scale model railroading for more than 30 years. Each issue brings you step-by-step modeling projects, fascinating photo tours of garden railroads, unbiased product reviews, new product announcements, tips from the experts, and much more!
Plus, subscribers get exclusive online access to the Railroad Gardening Library, product reviews, project plans, bonus articles, and more. Whether you’re new to the hobby or a seasoned veteran, this magazine is for you!
Features
Rescaling Bachmann’s log cars to 1:29 scale
A few simple steps will convert a narrow-gauge car to standard gauge
How to make corrugated-iron sheet
Soft-drink cans and a crimper are all you need
Build a spring-return #7 turnout
Part 1: The woodwork and cutting the rails
Visit the Nepenthes, Gestalt, & Delirium Railway
A small, freelance railroad in the front yard
Installing batteries in Aristo-Craft locomotives
Using available space simplifies the job
Make your own rail clamps
Inexpensive, homemade joiners hold rails securely
Building Dinovo Shoe Repair in 1:29 scale
A scratchbuilding project based on a family business
29th National Garden Railway Convention preview
Come to Cincinnati in June
Departments
From the Editor
The Diesel Garden Railway Contest
Notes & news
Letters
Garden railway basics
Automation in the garden: Part 6—Compound operations
Product reviews
If I’d only known
The perils of composite roadbed
