Passenger Train Annual 2025

Magazine, 116 pages, Color and B&W photographs and illustrations (about 60% color).

From the editors of Passenger Train Journal, the 2025 Passenger Train Annual covers your favorite trains from yesterday and today.

Featuring:
Dearborn Delights - by Kevin McKinney
This edition's extended cover feature looks back at the colorful variety of passenger trains that called at Chicago's Dearborn Station in the postwar era, including Erie Railroad, Monon, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago & Western Indiana, Santa Fe, and more! From Santa Fe's celebrated Chiefs to lowly commuter runs on Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Dearborn was a pre-Amtrak kaleidoscope where trains serving Florida, New York City, St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, downstate Illinois, Detroit, Toronto, and Montreal made their continent-wide connections.

The LRC Era - by Kevin J. Holland
In the early 1980s, Amtrak and VIA placed Bombardier’s "Light, Rapid, Comfortable" LRC trains in service. Amtrak's New England LRC trial didn't bear fruit, but the distinctive low-profile trains became fixtures on VIA's Corridor operations in southern Ontario and Quebec. It's been 25 years since VIA’s LRC locomotives were retired, but, more than 40 years after their debut, the LRC cars are only now facing retirement as new Siemens trains are poised to take over.

Recalling the first Passenger Train Annual - by Bill Anderson
It's been 50 years since publication of the first Passenger Train Annual in 1975. Bill Anderson was part of the editorial team and recalls how he traveled across North America in search of that first edition's cover photo.

Beyond Amtrak - Kansas City Union Station - by Carl Graves
Special Passenger Trains at KCUS, 2000-2012