In this episode of MRVP Tech, David Popp dives into adding a DCC sound decoder to a Bachmann steam locomotive. Although the OO scale model of a British shunting engine isn’t a typical MRVP subject, Dave show it’s a perfect candidate for demonstrating how to fit a few Soundtraxx products into rather tight quarters! David […]
Norfolk & Western No. 611 awaits departure from the North Carolina Transportation Museum in 2015. David J. Stewart ROANOKE, Va. — Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 will not be pulling any mainline excursions in 2018, officials with the Virginia Museum of Transportation announced Saturday. The iconic 4-8-4 is the latest mainline steam locomotive […]
This odd-looking signal serves to warn motorists. Sherman Cahal Q What can you tell me about this signal? – Carl Lehman, San Antonio A The photo was taken along the Baltimore & Ohio’s line in Greenfield, Ohio, and faces Baltimore Avenue, which runs parallel to the tracks through the city. The single top light will […]
Frank Sandberg, left, with his son Steve in England. SHOREVIEW, Minn. – Frank E. Sandberg Jr., an early activist in rail preservation and father of Friends of the 261’s President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Sandberg, died June 13 of complications following a heart attack. He was 77. An early advocate of rail preservation, he […]
A pressure gauge shows 262 pounds on No. 1309’s boiler. Diversified Rail Services C&O 2-6-6-2 No. 1309’s restoration is back on track at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. Trains collection CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland Scenic Railroad’s restoration of Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 is underway again in a big way: the railroad and […]
Scott Shields, Steam Railroading Institute Crews working on behalf of Michigan’s Steam Railroading Institute load the boiler for Chicago & North Western 4-6-0 No. 175 onto a flatbed truck last weekend. Scott Shields, Steam Railroading Institute OWOSSO, Mich. — The Steam Railroading Institute has nearly completed the successful move of former Chicago & North Western […]
Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Bellflower Cricket steaming in the snow […]
Name: Shawn Vigggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Summertime logging with live steam Regner Class A Climax and scratch built log cars and log loader. […]
Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Bellflower Cricket steaming in the snow […]
Name: Shawn Vigggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Summertime logging with live steam Regner Class A Climax and scratch built log cars and log loader. […]
Ride along on a trip around Dan Flanagan’s Great Northern Pacific HO scale layout. He mounted a GoPro camera on a flatcar at boxcar height, with a caboose roof just under the lens, and put it at the end of a freight pulled by a 2-8-0 Consolidation. […]
Mid-1950s Southern Pacific trains are featured in this edition of Extreme Trains: a 106 car mixed freight with three cab forward helpers; The City of San Francisco streamliner with Alco PAs; and a PFE refrigerator train with two cab forward locomotives. Video by Bill Rogers. […]
