This is a special anniversary issue. It features the following articles:

- Steam, Diesels, and Disruption
- Disappearing Railroad Blues
- Cheaper by the Thousands
- Temples of Train Travel
- Supersize Loads
- Stronger Together
- Remote-Control Railroading
- Constraining Commerce
- Fulfilling the Promise of Steam
- Black Diamonds from the Great Plains
- The Long Good-Bye
- Trains + Photography = TRAINS
- Strike of the Century
- Colorful Classic
- Straighter, Flatter, Faster
- Partnering with the Enemy
- Upstairs, Downstairs, and in Between
- More Freight, Fewer People
- Reversing Course
- Down by the Station