Click on the links at left to download this image sized appropriately for your computer screen Locomotive Whiton blasts out of Clozet Tunnel on Bernard Kempinksi’s O scale United States Military RR Aquia Line. The Civil War-era layout is the cover story of the October 2019 issue. Click on the links below to download this […]
Name: Bryan Hanson Railroad Name: Serenity Valley Railway Description: Drone footage of my garden railroad […]
Broadway Limited Imports Paragon3 HO scale Pennsylvania RR P5a electric left side Broadway Limited Imports Paragon3 HO scale Pennsylvania RR P5a electric (right side) Broadway Limited Imports Paragon3 HO scale Pennsylvania RR P5a electric (front view) Broadway Limited Imports Paragon3 HO scale Pennsylvania RR P5a electric truck detail Broadway Limited Imports Paragon3 HO scale Pennsylvania […]
Accurail HO scale 40-foot plug-door refrigerator car HO scale freight cars Assorted freight cars. Black Hills Packing Co. 40-foot plug-door steel refrigerator car, $19.98. Canadian National 50-foot boxcar with exterior posts (Illinois Central reporting marks), $18.98. Canadian Pacific 40-foot insulated boxcar, $18.98. Illinois Terminal Pullman-Standard 40-foot PS-1 boxcar, $18.98. Quebec Central 36-foot Fowler boxcar, $18.98. […]
To continue this informative series of videos from Classic Toy Trains magazine, David Popp shares info and insights on the wide array of O gauge track systems, sizes, and styles you can use to build a toy train layout! […]
Rail profiles through time from file: TRN-TC0513 Illustration: Rick Johnson Q: Why and when did rails get their profile? — Rozier Smith A: The basic shape, or profile, of rails that we see today: chucky head, thin web, and wide base, has its roots railroading as early as 1789, according to an illustration Trains printed […]
Cincinnati Southern Railway website Q: The city of Cincinnati owns the CNO&TP line running from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, Tenn., which Norfolk Southern leases from the city. Does the city of Cincinnati also own and lease yards along the line to NS, or does NS own these yards outright? — Doug Lathrem, Bowling Green, Ky. A: […]
Conrail C36-7 No. 6628 works an eastbound train in New York’s Southern Tier east of Lanesboro, Pa., near the Pennsylvania-New York border in 1985. This section of track has a grade, what percentage that shows up on a track chart is determined by how precise the charts are. TEH-11062-18 Michael S. Murray Q: Some […]
Various Santa Fe SF30C units are seen in storage at Argentine Yard, in Argentine, Kan., in 1983. Several of these locomotives have rotary or flashing beacons on their cab roofs for safety. TEH-14212-34 Ivan Abrams Q: Why did some railroads use flashing or rotary beacons atop their diesels? And do any railroads use them anymore? […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Trains readers aren’t the only ones to wonder about happenings in the railroad world. Trains editors and friends recently shared an email discussion about why two Class I railroads near Trains’ headquarters removed a connection at a diamond crossover. Here’s a condensed, edited version of the best explanation we’ve seen: A: I would […]
EOTs — end-of-train device Q: In track side watching and in videos, I note that end-of-train devices only flash at night. Why is this? — William Carpenter West Chester Township, Ohio The Northeast Operating Rules Advisory Committee (NORAC) rulebook used by most northeastern railroads states that each train occupying a main track or controlled siding […]
WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board will appoint a mediator to resolve differences in long-simmering operating agreement negotiations between Amtrak and Canadian National. The agency’s decision, released late last week, provides a rare glimpse inside a document which governs on time performance measurement, financial incentives, and penalties. Amtrak and its hosts generally keep contract details […]
