Broadway Limited Imports 1941 Morning Daylight parlor-observation car One of the most recognizable name passenger trains of the 20th century, the Southern Pacific RR’s Morning Daylight, gets the star treatment with Broadway Limited Imports’ HO scale 1941 Daylight parlor-observation car. The Daylight ran along the SP’s famed Coast Line between San Francisco and Los Angeles […]
Athearn Trains HO scale Electro-Motive SD70ACe diesel locomotive This HO scale SD70ACe has the fine detail of a museum-quality brass model. The plastic ready-to-run model features many roadname-specific detail parts. The Athearn Genesis SD70ACe is also available with a factory-installed SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. To meet strict emissions standards imposed by the […]
The Philadelphia-bound Liberty Limited passes Bowie, Md., with 19 cars enroute to the Army-Navy game. Alex Mayes WASHINGTON — Wounded veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars rode a classic passenger train to the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia Saturday. The “Liberty Limited” operated this year following a year off owing to a death in […]
IRVING, Texas — The Trinity Railway Express fleet of F59PHs has begun returning to the Dallas-area commuter agency following upgrades at shops in Iowa and Pennsylvania. The units, jointly owned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, are being overhauled to meet Environmental Protection Agency Tier 2 standards. The entire seven-unit […]
Missouri Pacific observation car No. 750. Museum of Transportation ST. LOUIS — The Museum of Transportation has unveiled its cosmetically restored Missouri Pacific observation car No. 750. Built in 1940 by American Car & Foundry, it was mainly used on MP’s Missouri River Eagle. The car boasted air conditioning, a public address system, private dining […]
Athearn HO scale SD70ACe diesel locomotive I just received my Athearn Genesis SD70ACes this week. Wow! For me, Christmas came early, literally! These units were not due until mid-to-late December. The Model Railroader review of the MTH SD70Ace, by Dana Kawala, has the history and numbers behind this locomotive model from EMD which first hit […]
Atlas HO dash 8-40C diesel Locomotive I just purchased two Atlas Series Dash 8-40C diesel electric locomotives in Direct-Current version in Union Pacific colors. I went shopping for a mixture of second and third generation Union Pacific motive power to handle coal trains and manifest freight cars on my Bayou Division, since UP has trackage […]
Union Pacific steam program director Steve Lee. David Hoge CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific steam program boss Steve Lee will retire at the end of this year after 22 years in his position. Lee has become synonymous with the program during his tenure. Lee went railroading in January 1972 as a student fireman on the […]
This is the ultra-basic Lionel Geep of olden times updated with electronics under the hood. No see-through screens, no add-on grab irons, no crew figures, no smoke unit. Everything that can be said about the exterior of the model has probably been said. It is a decent representation of the real thing, but not a […]
Okay, I’m scratching my head with this one. Years back, when I first read the story of the Santa Fe 3000-series 2-10-10-2s, I thought something like, “Why’d they do something crazy like that?” When I took this Lionel model out of the box, as Yogi Berra said, “It was deja vu all over again.” The […]
Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Baldwin Centipede The “baby-faced” good looks of Baldwin’s DR-12-8-1500/2 diesel, nicknamed “Centipede” for its long row of driver axles, are captured in Broadway Limited Imports’ new HO scale diesel. Though the prototype proved unreliable, BLI’s model is a smooth performer. Each unit in our sample A-A set is equipped with […]
Rapido Trains HO scale Osgood Bradley coach The distinct paired-window, early lightweight Pullman Standard/Osgood Bradley streamlined coaches have long been sought-after by New Haven and Boston & Maine fans. Highly detailed models of these cars in accurate era-specific configurations are now available in plastic in HO scale from Rapido Trains in multiple road numbers. Rapido’s Osgood […]
