Listen to GTW steam audio recordings from Art Weber’s album, Detroit Division, recorded in 1959, accompanied by photos of GTW steam in action. […]
Type of Train: Steam Locomotive
Coast Daylight eastbound at Guadalupe, Calif.
Train 98, the eastbound Coast Daylight, storms through Guadalupe Calif. in the Fall of 1954. Video by Brian Moore. […]
Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish
Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward at Skykomish: By accident, I have a car about 2/3rds into the train where it sounds like a prototypical flat wheel on one of the cars. The light at the back top of the engine was for the fireman to check, at night, the exhaust to see how efficient his […]
Nickel Plate 765’s 15-year inspection is a prelude to 2018 operations NEWSWIRE
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765, shown during a 2009 visit to the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum at North Judson, Ind., will be steaming again in 2018 after its 1,472-day inspection is completed. Trains: Jim Wrinn FORT WAYNE, IND. — The excursion off-season gives railway presrvationists an opportunity to address repairs that can not be […]
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 […]
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 […]
T1 Trust raises funds to begin building boiler for 4-4-4-4 No. 5550 NEWSWIRE
Photo shows Continental Fabricators rolling a large 16ft diameter plate for another customer showing their capabilities. Gary Bensman ST. LOUIS — The Pennsylvania Railroad T1 Steam Locomotive Trust is excited to announce the purchase order for the first and second boiler courses of new-build 4-4-4-4 No. 5550. The order was placed with Continental Fabricators Inc. […]
A 2-4-4-2 logging locomotive progresses on its road to restoration NEWSWIRE
Skookum, a 2-4-4-2 logging locomotive reunited with its tender for the first time in decades the week of Jan. 20 in Garibaldi, Ore. Rich Gitschlag GARIBALDI, Ore. — Another milestone has been reached in the long-awaited restoration of the famous Pacific Northwest Baldwin-built logging 2-4-4-2 Skookum. The unique 1909 locomotive was reunited with its tender […]
Kato N scale Olympian Hiawatha train
Kato N scale Olympian Hiawatha train set Hiawatha is the name the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, also known as the Milwaukee Road, used for its first streamlined passenger trains in 1935. By the late 1940s, there were Hiawathas providing fleet passage between many cities of the upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. The […]
Steam locomotive paint
Sporting a red cab roof, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4-8-4 No. 5632 departs Chicago Union Station in spring 1962 with an excursion. The locomotive’s graphite smokebox and firebox are also readily apparent. Ed DeRouin, Barbara DeRouin collection Restored Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 No. 315 shows off its contrasting graphite smokebox. Martin E. Hansen […]