Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 pulls an excursion in Virginia. Jim Wrinn 4-8-4 •YEARS BUILT: 1926 to 1950 •MANUFACTURERS: Baldwin, Lima, Alco, Canadian Locomotive Co., Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, Norfolk & Western •OPERATED ON: Most sizable railroads that provided fast freight and passenger service •NAME: Northern •QUANTITY: 1,115; Canadian National had more than 200 […]
Union Pacific Big Boy type steam locomotive No. 4011 ross west at Granite, Wyoming, in 1956. Jim Ehernberger 4-8-8-4 •YEARS BUILT: 1941 to 1944 •MANUFACTURER: Alco •OPERATED ON: Union Pacific •NAME: Big Boy •QUANTITY: 25 •BOILER PRESSURE: 300 psi •KNOWN FOR: Among the heaviest and most powerful reciprocating-piston steam locomotives ever built •STATUS: Eight preserved: […]
Gary Hoover models the Norfolk & Western Ry. in the late 1950s through Virginia and West Virginia. Many of the scenes on his 24 x 49 foot model railroad are inspired by the famed railroad photographer, O. Winston Link. Gary’s model train layout is also the cover story of the April 2020 Model Railroader. Enjoy […]
Model Railroader reviewed the Rapido Trains Inc. HO scale Santa Fe-rebuilt Budd cars in the September 2019 issue. Rapido Trains Inc., manufacturer of North American prototype HO and N scale locomotives, freight and passenger cars, and accessories, as well as British-outline models, celebrated its 15th anniversary in November 2019. Jason Shron, president of Rapido, shared […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP reboots the popular Rehab My Railroad series with a new project effort on Model Railroader magazine’s HO scale Milwaukee, Racine, & Troy (MR&T) model railroad. Reality quickly sets in when top-notch modelers David Popp and Cody Grivno start sizing up Jones Island […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP reboots the popular Rehab My Railroad series with a new project effort on Model Railroader magazine’s HO scale Milwaukee, Racine, & Troy (MR&T) model railroad. Reality quickly sets in when top-notch modelers David Popp and Cody Grivno start sizing up Jones Island […]
What could you have seen at the annual (all scales) Railroad Hobby Show held in Springfield, Massachusetts, on January 25-26, 2020? Follow along as MR associate editor Eric White shares his walk-and-talk tour of the various buildings of the Eastern States Expo Fairgrounds, each housing all sorts of vendors, displays, layouts, and so much more! […]
LISLE, Ill. – Amtrak’s next generation Acela Express equipment is continuing its journey west to Pueblo, Colo., for high-speed testing this week. Trains’ staff caught up with the train at Lisle on Tuesday evening after it departed Chicago Union Station. The prototype set is traveling from Buffalo, N.Y., to La Junta, Colo., on the route […]
Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen. Lance Mindheim As evening approaches, Los Angeles Junction Ry. no. 2619, a Santa Fe-rebuilt CF7, crosses District Boulevard in Los Angeles. Frequent Model Railroader contributor Lance Mindheim photographed the scene on his HO scale shelf layout. Click on the […]
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HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD40-2. BNSF Ry. (four Burlington Northern patchouts); Burlington Northern (as-delivered scheme); Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Chicago & North Western (Stagecoach and Zito Yellow schemes); CSX (Chessie System patchout, “S” scheme, and YN2 scheme); and Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (standard blue-and-yellow and Mt. Rushmore schemes). Multiple road numbers […]
All this month — February 2020 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include Nickel Plate diesel- and steam-powered freight trains through time. You […]
