Extra Board
Welcome to Passenger Train Journal’s Extra Board! Enjoy previews and features from the pages of our magazine.
August 15, 2025
Amtrak NextGen Acela: Full Speed Ahead
It’s been a long wait, but Amtrak’s new high-speed NextGen Acela trains are poised to enter Northeast Corridor service.
August 15, 2025
Ike and Mamie on the Santa Fe
The Eisenhowers’ post-presidential travels usually included travel aboard their favorite railroad; the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
August 15, 2025
Tennessee Central: Passenger Trains on ‘The Road of Personal Service’
Passenger trains on “The Road of Personal Service” included locals and through trains serving the region in Kentucky and Tennessee.
May 12, 2025
50 Years of Amfleet
Budd’s stainless-steel stalwarts mark a half-century of successful service on Amtrak trains from coast to coast.
May 12, 2025
Olympian Hiawatha Memories
Recalling Milwaukee Road’s eclectic Pacific Northwest streamliner, and the struggles it faced against postwar competition.
May 11, 2025
Union Pacific’s “City of Las Vegas”
The history of the short-lived gamblers’ special operated by Union Pacific linking Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
January 15, 2025
The Canadian at 70
VIA Rail celebrates 70 years of “The Canadian,” a classic coast-to-coast streamliner that first debuted on Canadian Pacific in 1955.
January 15, 2025
Night Trains Along the Wasatch Front
The busy light rail and commuter rail lines that radiate out of Salt Lake City make for interesting studies in urban transportation after dark.
January 15, 2025
An Idaho Yankee in the Kingdom of Siam
Taking in the steam and diesel action on the State Railway of Thailand in 1969 while on assignment for the Army.
November 18, 2024
Caltrain Goes All-Electric
Big changes in the Bay Area as Caltrain inaugurates electric service along the historic commuter corridor between San Francisco and San Jose.
