For lovers of passenger rail transport, the 2018 Passenger Train Annual is not to be missed. This year’s edition brings you a colorful cross-section of passenger-train operations from the past and present.

Featuring:

Amtrak’s Southeastern DNA • by Mike Schafer — An ancestral survey of long-distance trains.

New Trains of 1948 — A bumper crop of new and re-equipped postwar streamliners.

Incredible Journey • by Al Lill with David Walmsley — Creating the private car Pullman Spirit.

All Aboard 1968 — U.S. and Canadian passenger trains from 50 years ago.

The Trams of Hong Kong • by Kevin J. Holland — A living link to the past in an ever-changing city.

Accidental Varnish • by Carl Graves — Passenger trains in unexpected places.

The Centurys No Longer Pass in the Night • by Geoffrey H. Doughty — Recalling a 1969 trip on Penn Central.

96 pages