Pennsylvania’s Steel City gateway

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Railroads included in this map: Norfolk Southern; CSX Transportation; Johnstown & Stony Creek; Ligonier Valley; Lehigh Valley Rail Management; Pennsylvania; Southwest Pennsylvania; Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad; Western Pennsylvania This map originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Trains Magazine. […]

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MR Insider: June 2016

Jenny Freeland relaxing in a chair with a glass of lemonade next to Kent Johnson's garden railroad

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s June, and the sun’s rays are beaming brightly upon MR Insider host Jenny Maaske, not to mention our fun-filled line-up of new videos coming to MR Video Plus this month! Jenny shares news of a special edition of Rehab My Railroad, a […]

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Abandoned Western Pacific FTA-B units

Abandoned Western Pacific FTA-B units

A rare find of a Western Pacific FTA-B units. Neglected for decades, the unique locomotives have roof-mounted number boards and wagon wheel antennae. The B-unit’s rear headlight came from a former steam locomotive. Being fascinated with the extreme weathering done by military modelers, Bruce Kingsley gave their methods a shot on a pair of small […]

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Abandoned Western Pacific FTA-B units

Abandoned Western Pacific FTA-B units

A rare find of a Western Pacific FTA-B units. Neglected for decades, the unique locomotives have roof-mounted number boards and wagon wheel antennae. The B-unit’s rear headlight came from a former steam locomotive. Being fascinated with the extreme weathering done by military modelers, Bruce Kingsley gave their methods a shot on a pair of small […]

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Three-phase locomotives

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Great Northern Railway used three-phase locomotives in the 1920s. This General Electric locomotive operated with three-phase power. General Electric Q In a September 1999 article in Trains, I read that the Great Northern Cascade Tunnel electrification project was the first and only three-phase A.C. system in America. Was three phase delivered to a moving locomotive? […]

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I was a teenage hostler

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Big EM-1 2-8-8-4s congregate at the Benwood, Ohio, engine terminal in August 1957, a decade after author Tanner was a hostler there.  J. J. Young Jr., Bob Withers coll. Sixty-odd years ago, North American railroads were enjoying prosperous years. World War II was over, but the momentum created during that time continued for another decade. […]

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HO scale Great Northern Pacific RR

HO scale Great Northern Pacific RR

Northern Pacific freight and passenger trains run on Dan Flanagan’s fictitious HO Great Northern Pacific RR, based on Jerry Boudreaux’s Red Rock Northern track plan (Model Railroader, June 2007). It’s an around-the-walls layout, approximately 11′ x 11′. […]

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HO scale Great Northern Pacific RR

HO scale Great Northern Pacific RR

Northern Pacific freight and passenger trains run on Dan Flanagan’s fictitious HO Great Northern Pacific RR, based on Jerry Boudreaux’s Red Rock Northern track plan (Model Railroader, June 2007). It’s an around-the-walls layout, approximately 11′ x 11′. […]

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Yellow

  Rails reflect gold and yellow glints as a late afternoon sun bathes Metra’s Western Avenue yards with light in September 2013. Photo by Steve Sweeney […]

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