An A-B set of drawbar-connected Boston & Maine EMD FTs (in Boston in March 1950) shows the distinctive four-porthole styling and close spacing between units. The boxy structure on the roof is the dynamic brake housing. The F unit’s “bulldog” carbody styling blended nicely with passenger cars but did not facilitate clear views to the […]
Trains magazine editor David P. Morgan pauses on a station platform at Joliet, Ill., to watch trains – in this case a Santa Fe streamliner behind EMD F7 diesels. Photo by Classic Trains collection […]
Two of Rio Grande’s Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulics spent almost three weeks testing on the New York Central in early 1963. Here crews on New York Central Advance BF-3 change at Bellefontaine, Ohio, on February 24, 1963. Photo by Si Herring […]
Conrail 6070, a former Erie Lackawanna SD45, assists a westbound freight up Pennsylvania’s Horseshoe Curve on July 25, 1981, just a few months after removal of one of the Curve’s four tracks. Photo by Robert S. McGonigal […]
Camp Director David Popp was up’n at’m early to powder up his passenger cars and work out the weathering effects, top-to-bottom, for his HO scale Rapido RS-11 diesel locomotive. If that’s not enough, he also shares a technique for removing lettering from an RPO car. […]
Camp Director David Popp was up’n at’m early to powder up his passenger cars and work out the weathering effects, top-to-bottom, for his HO scale Rapido RS-11 diesel locomotive. If that’s not enough, he also shares a technique for removing lettering from an RPO car. […]
SCRANTON, Pa. — Genesee Valley Transportation, operator of four freight railroads with 318 total route-miles in Pennsylvania and New York, has added an old, rare Alco switcher to its fleet. The 80-year old HH660, built as Delaware, Lackawanna & Western No. 409, “came home” to Scranton, Pa., on August 12. Genesee Valley’s railroads are well […]
Friday morning rail news: NRE consolidating operations to two sites NRE, which sells and leases new and remanufactured locomotives and components, and provides overhaul and maintenance services, will consolidate operations to its headquarters location in Mt. Vernon, Ill, as well as its shops in Paducah, Ky. Operations at Dixmoor, Ill., Silvis, Ill, and Milwaukee will […]
The Rapido Trains HO scale Canadian Pacific class H-1d 4-6-4 steam locomotive includes an ESU LokSound 5 DCC decoder. See and hear the Royal Hudson as it races a passenger train on the Model Railroader staff layout the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
The Rapido Trains HO scale Canadian Pacific class H-1d 4-6-4 steam locomotive includes an ESU LokSound 5 DCC decoder. See and hear the Royal Hudson as it races a passenger train on the Model Railroader staff layout the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
This HO scale EMD SD35 diesel from Atlas Model Railroad Co. includes an ESU LokSound Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. See and hear it in action on the Model Railroader staff layout. […]
This HO scale EMD SD35 diesel from Atlas Model Railroad Co. includes an ESU LokSound Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. See and hear it in action on the Model Railroader staff layout. […]
