Let me start off by saying that I was one of your riders on Easter Sunday morning on Cleveland’s RTA light rail line from Green to Tower City. I wanted to compliment you on your handling of our two-car articulated train. It was as smooth as silk...

Look at these three blue Easter eggs in Cleveland! A trio of ex-Conrail SD40-2s assembles a hopper train on April 24. Jim Wrinn photo I was in Ohio last weekend as the guest of the Akron Railroad Club, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this...

By Angela Pusztai-Pasternak and Matt Van Hattem (Trains’ entertainment critics at large) Angela: Decisions, decisions … should I see “Sucker Punch” or “Source Code?” And must I really look at trains during my free...

Once upon a time, two Southern Railway Consolidations escaped the torch when diesels came to replace them. One of them found itself on display in a park near the zoo in Knoxville, Tenn. The other went to work for a shortline railroad, and then its old...

Here's a guest post from our Map of the Month illustrator, Bill Metzger. It's about the " Rails to trails across America: Your guide to 415 trails 10 miles or longer (11,830 miles in all) " map in the May 2011 issue of Trains . This...

Wisconsin's state capitol rises above weedy tracks that once carried Chicago & North Western streamliners from the Windy City into Madison, Wis. Matt Van Hattem photo You'd think the spring 2011 meeting of the Wisconsin Association of Railroad...

I am traveling back where I come from. I am in the south, where the temperatures are already in the 70s, the sun shines bright, the trees are greening up nicely, college girls hang their arms out of an open car window to catch the breeze, lost hunting...

There must be hundreds of different ideas for moving people by public transportation. I found some unique twists on familiar themes during a visit to Asia last December. (You can read about Asia's high speed trains in the April 2011 issue of Trains...

This past week has been a time of enormous reflection for me. Ryan Schoenfeldt died on Tuesday. You might have seen his obituary in our News Wire , or posted to one or more of the many Yahoo! Groups he frequented. Or you might have even seen one of the...