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FIRST QUARTER 2025: This issue highlights the upcoming 70th anniversary of The Canadian — the last classic Budd domeliner — inaugurated by Canadian Pacific in April 1955 and operated by VIA Rail Canada since 1978. Elsewhere in this issue, you’ll find news and features covering rail passenger service in the U.S. and overseas, ranging from intercity and commuter trains in Utah and the return of Mark Jones’ popular “Amtrak Diaries” series to a recent European trip report from PTJ Senior Editor Kevin McKinney and a look back at Thailand in the late 1960s. All this, plus insightful columns, the Journal and Rush Hour news digests, great photography, and more in the First Quarter 2025 issue of Passenger Train Journal.

Current Issue

Vol. 49, No. 1 (2025-1)
Issue No. 302

Features:

Journal Spotlight  —

 • Amtrak Ridership Reaches New High
• Amtrak Inspector General Raises Equipment Concerns
• VIA Moves Forward on New Long-Distance Equipment
• Introducing Amtrak’s New Floridian

Trip Report: A Return to Europe

by Kevin McKinney — France, Holland, Germany, Hungary, and Switzerland by rail and river.

The Canadian at 70

by Kevin J. Holland — From Canadian Pacific to VIA, a look at Canada’s classic domeliner.

Night Trains Along the Wasatch Front

by Bill Anderson — The relevance of passenger trains in Salt Lake City and environs.

An Idaho Yankee in the Kingdom of Siam

by Bill Anderson — Passenger railroading in Thailand in 1969 and 1970.

The Amtrak Diaries, Part 12

by Mark W. Jones — Jonesy’s Big Adventure continues.

Departments

On the Point/Editorial by Kevin J. Holland

The Journal/News compiled by Kevin McKinney

North American Intercity/Kevin McKinney

Window on the World/Kevin McKinney

Rail Users’ Network/Richard Rudolph, PhD, Rail Users’ Network

Capitol Unlimited/Jim Mathews, Rail Passengers Association

Rush Hour/Kevin McKinney and Scott Ornstein

Transport Action Canada/Terence Johnson, Transport Action Canada

Mail, Express, and L.C.L./letters from our readers

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