New model trains for the week of August 8, 2019

Accurail HO scale assorted freight cars

HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD45-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue and yellow warbonnet in four road numbers) and Conrail (blue in three numbers). Road-number-specific details, factory-installed and painted wire grab irons, and light-emitting-diode headlights. Direct-current model with 21-pin NEM plug for Digital Command Control decoder, $209.98; with dual-mode SoundTraxx Tsunami sound […]

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Improving locomotive maintenance, environmental impact at North America’s largest rail exhibit and tech conference NEWSWIRE

Locomotive Maintenance Officers Association President Ian Bradbury

From left, former LMOA President Dwight Beebe, LMOA Secretary Treasurer Ron Pondel, and current LMOA President Ian Bradbury. Kaedi Maney Past LMOA President Bob Runyon was given the Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award at Railway Interchange 2018. Kaedi Maney MINNEAPOLIS — Locomotive Maintenance Officers Association members will be presenting papers at special training sessions Sept. 23 […]

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New model trains for the week of August 1, 2019

Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Baldwin Sharknose diesel locomotives

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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Wabtec delivers locomotives to Turkish oil refining company NEWSWIRE

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One of several locomotives Wabtec has delivered to a Turkey-based refining company. Körfez Ulaştırma WILMERDING, Pa. — Wabtec Corp. completed delivery of five diesel-electric PowerHaul series locomotives to Körfez Ulaştırma A.Ş., the subsidiary of Turkey’s largest refinery Tüpraş operating in railway transportation. Körfez Ulaştırma is the first private operator in Turkey to make such a […]

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Ask Trains: Why do railroads create heritage locomotives?

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Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 4141 letter for former President George H. W. Bush led Bush’s funeral train from Houston to College Station, Texas, in Dec. 2018. 18345-3 Bradley Bates Q: Painting locomotives is expensive. I’m curious to know why railroads would spend this kind of money painting heritage units? — David Berg, Minneapolis, Minn. A: […]

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