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A New York, New Haven & Hartford RS-1 brings the three-car River Job past Bank Street Junction. The southbound train will switch industries along the Naugatuck River before returning to Waterbury. Senior editor David Popp photographed the scene on his N scale Naugatuck Valley layout, featured in the April 2006 issue of MR. Model Railroader‘s […]
Pennsylvania Railroad GP9s on westbound piggyback train TT1 pass J1 class 2-10-4 No. 6166, which has stopped on the main line near Johnstown, Pa., to take water from an overhead spout, in September 1956. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
With a freight passing on the adjacent track, the engineer of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 4-8-4 no. 3781 uses the few minutes of free time to oil the locomotive. Gary Hoover of Florissant, Mo., took the photo on his old HO scale Missouri, Kansas & Quincy. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images […]
Westbound and eastbound Western Star streamliners meet along Whitefish Lake near Whitefish, Mont., in the 1950s. Great Northern photo […]
Ed Berry is just one of the many current layout builders who use a section or two of the O gauge layout they have recently finished as a way to display some of the die-cast metal vehicles they collect. On his three-rail display in Kinston, N.C., he specializes in miniature Corvettes, and so has arranged […]
Coal is big business on the Allegheny & Lackawanna Southern. Contributing editor Lionel Strang photographed a pair of Alco C-424s bringing a loaded coal train up the 4 percent grade at Blackwater Canyon on his HO scale model railroad. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad […]
Two 4-8-4s, Baldwin products of 1943, lead a westbound freight with a long string of open hoppers through Sandy Hook, Mo., about 19 miles west of Jefferson City on Missouri Pacific’s River Line. The railroad had 15 such locomotives, Nos. 2201–2215, and 25 more home-built examples, Nos. 2101–2125. C. T. Wood photo […]
The guys holed up in the shack by the main line on David Brown’s O gauge layout caught a break today when the temperature climbed above the freezing mark. On a whim, they decided to set up their checkerboard outdoors for a few games before their fingers get numb or the noise of that passing […]
Conrail’s Delancey Street engine terminal in Oak Island, N.J., is filled with locomotives being serviced and waiting for their next assignment. The terminal is a popular spot for railfans, and the railroad detective is checking to make sure these two men have permission to be on Conrail property. Lou Sassi took the photo on Matt […]
A McCloud River Railroad freight rolls thought Bartle, Calif., in July 1983. Lead unit No. 39 is the road’s sole SD38-2 while trailing unit 38 is the highest numbered of three SD38s. The logging and lumber road operated Baldwin diesels into the late 1960s. Jim Shaw photo […]
Two Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) GP40s lead a freight through the industrial district of North Kansas City. Gary Hoover photographed the scene on Bill Wehmeier and Kurt Stroer’s HO scale MKT and Kansas City Southern-themed layout. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and excellence. […]
Labor intensive Hundred-pound sacks of flour are stacked in a single-sheathed Rock Island boxcar at Minneapolis in 1939. The paper lining helps protect the bags. John Vachon, Library of Congress photo […]
