Name: Alan Caddell Railroad Name: Suzette Lee Line Scale: O Theme: Mixed industrial Description: Selected scenes from a day on the Suzette Lee Line serving Industrial Loop #1. […]
Getting a legacy on track
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Plans for a passenger shelter
The prototypes for the passenger shelters in these plans originally served the Rochester & Eastern Rapid Transit Ry. This interurban line ran from Rochester, N.Y., to Geneva, N.Y. Models of these compact trackside structures would also work well as flagstop stations on a model railroad. Click on the link to download a PDF of the […]
Scheduling freight trains
Northbound CSX Transportation aggregates train K944 is seen meeting intermodal train Q145 at Opelika, Ala., in 2010. Class I railroads use different kinds of schedules to keep their networks fluid and profitable, even on single-track lines. Frank Orona What time will the train depart? When will it arrive? While most people associate schedules with passenger […]
Ewbank gas-electric locomotive
Gene Mendonca’s painting of Ewbank Electric Transmission Co.’s train. Gene Mendonca Q Can you tell me anything about the Ewbank Electric Transmission Co. that is the subject of a picture I painted from a very old newspaper clipping? – Gene Mendonca, Folsom, Calif. A H.B. Ewbank Jr. built No. 333, a 75-foot-long gas-electric locomotive with […]
Getting a legacy on track
Name: Alan Caddell Railroad Name: Suzette Lee Line Scale: O Theme: Mixed industrial Description: Selected scenes from a day on the Suzette Lee Line serving Industrial Loop #1. […]
David McLean’s HO scale model railroad
Take a tour of David McLean’s HO scale 5 x 10 tabletop model railroad. He used a GoPro camera. […]
Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum – The Oil Cans
The January 2018 Extreme Trains event at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum starred the Southern Pacific “Oil Cans.” This was the famous train that hauled crude oil from Shell Oil Company’s Belridge field to its refinery near Carson, California. […]
Sonora Pass – SP Daylight
Take a trip with the Southern Pacific Daylight over the fictional N scale Sonora Pass. Video by Rolf Christinat. […]
Sundance Central RR
Sundance Central Railroad is comprised of four different railroads: one Fn3 scale and three On30 scale. The Fn3 is made up of 43 modules and is battery operated, and the Silverton & Central On30 is 8 modules. These are moved as needed in a tractor trailer to train shows and conventions as far west as […]
David McLean’s HO scale model railroad
Take a tour of David McLean’s HO scale 5 x 10 tabletop model railroad. He used a GoPro camera. […]
Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum – The Oil Cans
The January 2018 Extreme Trains event at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum starred the Southern Pacific “Oil Cans.” This was the famous train that hauled crude oil from Shell Oil Company’s Belridge field to its refinery near Carson, California. […]
Sonora Pass – SP Daylight
Take a trip with the Southern Pacific Daylight over the fictional N scale Sonora Pass. Video by Rolf Christinat. […]
