Former Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 pulls west on Metra’s former Milwaukee Road main line at Franklin Park, Ill., on June 10, 2016, en route to the 2016 Franklin Park Railroad Days. Photo by Benjamin J. Muciek […]
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Rehab My Railroad: Outdoors, Episode 1
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the debut of this special summertime series, the Rehab My Railroad crew escapes the basement to help MRVP’s Kent Johnson restore his 22 x 30-foot garden railway (1:29 scale). Watch as host Drew Halverson, along with expert model railroaders David Popp and […]
Rehab My Railroad: Outdoors, Episode 1
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In the debut of this special summertime series, the Rehab My Railroad crew escapes the basement to help MRVP’s Kent Johnson restore his 22 x 30-foot garden railway (1:29 scale). Watch as host Drew Halverson, along with expert model railroaders David Popp and […]
Walthers HO scale Capitol Limited
The Walthers HO scale Capitol Limited is lead by two prototype-specific Electro-Motive Division E units EMD E9A, EMD E8Bm, PS baggage-dormitory-coffee shop-lounge, and Budd Slumbercoach sleeper Pullman-Standard 56-seat coach, Pullman Standard Strata-Dome coach, Pullman-Standard kitchen-dormitory, and Pullman-Standard 56-seat diner Budd Strata-Dome sleeper, Budd 16-4 sleeper, Pullman-Standard 10-6 sleeper, and Pullman-Standard 5-bedroom buffet lounge observation car […]
Vol. 330: The longest day
This “Trackside with Trains” photo contest result comes from June 2016. The theme was “To the point.” Trackside with Trains was a regular, periodic contest among Trains website visitors from the earlier 2000s until October 2018. Anyone in the world who wanted to participate, could, and with rare exception, have their images judged by viewers […]
Book Review: Traqueros: Mexican railroad workers in the United States, 1870-1930
Traqueros: Mexican railroad workers in the United States, 1870-1930 No. 6 in Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series By Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo, Ph.D. Forward by Vicki L. Ruiz, Ph.D. University of North Texas Press, 1155 Union Circle, Denton, Texas, 76203-5017; 256 pages, map, tables, illustration, footnotes, index, bibliography, paperbound, 6 x 9 inches; $24.95. untpress.unt.edu […]
Rivarossi HO scale U28C diesel locomotive
Rivarossi HO scale U28C The 2,800-horsepower General Electric U28C was a transitional locomotive. As such, it shared components with its predecessor U25C in its early production, and its successor U30C in late production. Rivarossi is taking advantage of this circumstance to offer an early production U28C based on its previous U25C. Dimensions matched published figures […]
Model Rectifier Light Genie lighting controller
Model Rectifier Corp. Light Genie lighting controller Adding special lighting effects like flashing signals, flickering gas lamps, warning strobes, and rotating beacons to your model railroad has never been easier, thanks to Model Rectifier Corp.’s new Light Genie. The compact receiver can control 12 light outputs, each of which can power multiple bulbs or light-emitting […]
Quick Look: Atlas Trainman O scale 60-foot observation car
Atlas Trainman O scale 60-foot observation car Atlas O Trainman 60-foot observation car drumhead Price: $114.95 Manufacturer Atlas O 378 Florence Ave. Hillside, NJ 07205 www.atlaso.com Era: 1929 to mid-1970s Road names: New Jersey Department of Transportation; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Chesapeake & Ohio; Chicago & North Western; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Long […]
Heritage forward
Norfolk Southern’s Southern Railway-painted ES44AC, No. 8099, leads intermodal train No. 200 south across the CSX diamond at Milford Junction, Ind., on June 12, 2016. Photo by Randy Olson […]
Original uses of GP60Ms
On June 16, 1990, Santa Fe Railway GP60M No. 114 leads a westbound intermodal train near Ethel, Mo. These locomotives were originally purchased for intermodal service and have since been transitioned by the railroad to switching duties. Tom Danneman Q I’m a fan of BNSF Railway and have seen their ex-Santa Fe GP60Ms used in […]
Traffic jammer
A northbound Norfolk Southern train enters the street running at Warsaw, Ind., on March 24, 2011. The signal guards the crossing of the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line, now the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern. The former New York Central branch line was upgraded with Pennsylvania-style position light signals recycled from other routes during […]
