Price: $559.95 (no. 20-21314-1; other road names $519.95) Features: O-31 operation, two can-style motors, MTH ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system, remote couplers, smoke unit, conventional capability, as well as DCS command control and access through the Remote Commander or the MTH app. Low speed (cmd): 2 smph Low speed (conv): 5.5 smph Drawbar pull: […]
Type of Train: Diesel Locomotives
Ann Arbor Railroad locomotives remembered
Ann Arbor Railroad locomotives moved freight to and from docks and lake boats. See a sampling of those locomotives with this photo gallery of Ann Arbor Railroad locomotives, only from Classic Trains! If you like this gallery, you may also enjoy an article on AA’s history or an Ann Arbor passenger train photo gallery. […]
ScaleTrains.com HO scale Rivet Counter and Operator SD45s
Check out ScaleTrains.com’s HO scale Rivet Counter and Operator line SD45s on the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy! […]
Rapido N scale General Electric Dash 8-40CM ‘Draper Taper’
Check out Rapido’s new N scale General Electric Dash-8-40CM Draper Taper on the Canadian Canyons project layout! […]
Rapido N scale General Electric Dash 8-40CM ‘Draper Taper’
Check out Rapido’s new N scale General Electric Dash-8-40CM Draper Taper on the Canadian Canyons project layout! […]
Chicago Great Western Legacy F7 A-A set no. 2033260 by Lionel
O gauge Chicago Great Western Legacy F7 A-A set no. 2033260 by Lionel Price: $899.99 Features: O-31 operation, two units totaling four can-style motors, Legacy command and sound system, smoke units in each locomotive, front remote couplers, directional lighting, Conventional command, Lionel Legacy, TrainMaster, Universal Remote, or LionChief App control capability Low speed (Cmd): 1.6 […]
Coast Line veteran
Atlantic Coast Line E7 No. 526 pauses in Miami in January 1965. The 20-year-old locomotive has had some body panels modified and its fuel-tank skirt removed, and is painted in the railroad’s simplified black scheme. Photo by Louis A. Marre collection […]
CSX donation helps advance Berkshire Scenic’s RDC restoration
LENOX, Mass. — A donation from CSX to the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum will mean new windows for its ex-New Haven Budd Rail Diesel Car in the coming year. The $10,000 donation came as a surprise to the group. “CSX reached out to us,” said Brent S. Bette, of Berkshire Scenic. “They wanted to make […]
Digest: Metro-North set to buy dual-mode locomotives from Siemens
Metro-North set to buy 27 dual-mode locomotives from Siemens The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a $334.9 million contract for Siemens to build 27 dual-mode locomotives for the Metro-North Railroad. A document in the board package for Wednesday’s meeting says the purchase, an order for 19 locomotives with exercise of […]
Trains.com Holiday Party: CN Heritage Locomotives, Episode 2
David Popp joins Trains magazine editor Jim Wrinn at a trackside hotspot in Wisconsin. That’s where they hope to lay eyes on one or more of Canadian National’s fleet of modern diesel locomotives recently repainted to salute the railroads rolled into CN control. […]
Trains.com Holiday Party: CN Heritage Locomotives, Episode 2
David Popp joins Trains magazine editor Jim Wrinn at a trackside hotspot in Wisconsin. That’s where they hope to lay eyes on one or more of Canadian National’s fleet of modern diesel locomotives recently repainted to salute the railroads rolled into CN control. […]
News Photos: New York gathering of Alcos; S1 preservation effort
GREENWICH JUNCTION, N.Y. — A group of railfans gathered three preserved and operational Alco locomotives for a night photo at Greenwich Junction on Dec. 6, 2020, and are also seeking to promote an effort to preserve a former Alco plant switcher. Photographed at Greenwich Junction, where the Greenwich & Johnsonville Railroad interchanged with the Delaware […]