Trains July 2020

Features

Railroad Vision 2020: High speed reality check
By Bob Johnston
What does the U.S. deserve? What can it achieve?

After Anderson, Amtrak seeks stability
By Dan Zukowski and Rush Loving Jr.
New CEO William J. Flynn faces fundamental issues about passenger railroad's role

Fortuity in Montana
By Brian Solomon
An encounter with a pair of 40-year-old Northern Pacific F units, back on home rails

5 ways Nevada Northern highballs history
By Jim Wrinn
How the amazingly good standard gauge East Broad Top of the west makes its railroad great

Battling gravity in Bealville
By Jim Wrinn
A Union Pacific freight is a rolling example of railroad engineering vs. geography

Of stack trains and semaphores
By Brian Solomon
Conrail's former Erie double-track route through New York's bucolic Canisteo Valley: steeped in history, laced with contradictions, carrier of mystery


In My Own Words: Where's the engineer?
By Ron Baile
Amateur railroading in the 1980s

Gallery
By Doug Harrop