From the editors of Passenger Train Journal, the 2024 Passenger Train Annual covers your favorite trains from yesterday and today, including:

75 Years of Budd’s Rail Diesel Car

This extended cover feature looks back at Budd’s pioneering self-propelled stainless-steel passenger cars that were introduced in 1949 — from origins and owners, to survivors still in service today.

An Amrtak ACS-64 Album

A photographic survey of Amtrak’s current generation of Northeast Corridor electric locomotives, with more than a few colorful surprises.

Don’t Count on the Zephyr Being Late

The twilight of Burlington Route’s shovel-nosed Zephyrs, the Budd-built streamliners that helped usher in the lightweight era of passenger cars.

Chicago and Boston Commuters: 1970s-1990s

Recalling bygone days of commuter train operations during a period of transition from private railroads to public transit agencies.

• 75 Years of Budd’s RDC by Kevin McKinney - A success on branch line and main line.

• Riding RDCs in Anthracite Country by Alex Mayes - Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern’s excursion trio.
• Michigan Central Station Reborn by Kevin McKinney - New life for a Detroit landmark.
  
• The Many Faces of Amtrak’s ACS-64 Fleet by Gary Pancavage - A gallery of today’s Northeast Corridor workhorses.
• Shovelnose Twilight by Jonathan J. Boyle, Sr. - Recalling the final years of the original Zephyrs.
• Commuter Snapshots by Carl Graves - Visits to Chicago and Boston in the 1970s and ’80s.
• Tail End