Alyth Yard

The engine terminal at Canadian Pacific’s Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta, in the mid-1940s hosts 2-8-2 No. 5440, left, and 4-6-2 No. 2388. Floyd W. Yeats photo […]

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New models trains for the week of August 22, 2019

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. […]

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CP derailment leads to evacuation of small Alberta town NEWSWIRE

IRVINE, Alberta — Residents near the community of Irvine were evacuated Friday, and a portion of the Trans-Canada Highway was closed, as the result of a Canadian Pacific derailment. The derailment of about 20 cars near the community of 300, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) east of Medicine Hat, Alta., occurred about 3:20 p.m., the […]

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New model trains for the week of August 1, 2019

HO scale locomotives 2-6-2 Prairie steam locomotive. New paint schemes: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Boston & Maine. New road number: Pennsylvania RR. Model features operating headlight and smoke unit. $159. Bachmann Trains, 215-533-1600, www.bachmantrains.com Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Baldwin Sharknose diesel locomotives Baldwin Sharknose diesel locomotives. BF-16A ($279.99): Baltimore & Ohio (blue, […]

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CP puts damper on plans for more ‘Hiawathas’

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin’s plans for increasing Chicago-Milwaukee Amtrak Hiawatha service may not be as close to fruition as state officials have believed. Canadian Pacific Railway, the host railroad for much of the Hiawatha route, has released a letter to the state’s rail program manager saying it will not support additional service without additional improvements […]

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Waterscape your garden railway

Waterscape your garden railway: Swirling water stirs the imagination. Splashing shuts out city sounds, and viewers remember seeing famous falls at national parks or smaller watercourses near home. Bridges over brooks urge us to see connections to the land and how plantings create the habitat for a popular scenic attraction. There are countless reasons why […]

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CN, CP optimistic about prospects for more crude oil traffic NEWSWIRE

Canadian National power leads a westbound empty oil unit train through River Forest, Ill., on the Union Pacific on Aug. 25, 2018. TRAINS: David Lassen Canadian National and Canadian Pacific are cautiously optimistic that Alberta crude oil shipments will rise significantly this year if production curtailments are eased and the province’s crude-by-rail contracts are shifted […]

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