TRAINS February 2003

Fastest freight in America
TRAINS Magazine takes you for a ride on the 65-hour, coast-to-coast intermodal bullet train everyone thought they wanted. Too bad no one wants to use it.


Who is Axel Zwingenberger?
A photographer who thinks steam locomotives are the coolest thing on Earth.


Trouble shooter
Mud, wrecks, sheep, exploding tank cars, rotting grain, local politics… it was all in a day’s work on the Santa Fe in East Texas.


Somebody’s gotta step up
If you’re a short line railroad, it’s all too easy to watch truckers take your business away. Puget Sound & Pacific found another solution: get truckers to bring you the business.


Map of the Month: CSX predecessors
Ever wonder where a big railroad came from? In the case of eastern giant CSX Transportation, its 23,000 route miles are pieced together from 22 Class Is and several short lines. We show you how.