HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 and GP38-2W diesel locomotive. GP38-2: Canadian Pacific (Action Red with Multimark herald in three road numbers, maroon-and-gray with script lettering in one number), Southern Pacific (scarlet-and-gray scheme with Roman lettering in four numbers, speed lettering in one number), and Southern Ry. (high short hood with paper or oil bath […]
Firefighters set a back burn along the Durango & Silverton tracks as part of their efforts to contain the 416 Fire in early June. Wyoming Interagency Hotshots Railroaders have always had to deal with whatever Mother Nature threw at them, but 2018 was a particularly trying year for railroads dealing with natural disasters, from fires […]
Behind six units, an eastbound Z-train flies through historic downtown Laramie, Wyo., on June 7, 2018, exactly 150 years to the day that Union Pacific tracks reached the town named for French-Canadian fur trader Jacques La Ramee. Bill Stephens OMAHA, Neb. — More of Union Pacific’s intermodal trains will operate daily, up from five or […]
HO scale locomotives General Electric Dash 9-44CW. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (red-and-silver warbonnet, three road numbers); BC Rail (red, white, and blue and solid blue schemes, two numbers each); BNSF Ry. (Heritage II scheme, three numbers); CSX (yellow, blue, and gray scheme, three numbers); Norfolk Southern (red-and-gray scheme, one number); and Union Pacific (as-delivered […]
The cab for Monon SW1 No. 50, the Indiana railroad’s first diesel in 1942, was sheared off in an accident Dec. 13. Don Nickel NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A quaint Midwestern town hosting a division of the former Nickel Plate, complete with street running, a lush city park containing a railroad museum with a collection of […]
Athearn HO scale SD70ACe with Tsunami2 A skew-wound motor with brass flywheels is secured to the center of the die-cast metal frame. Plastic driveshafts power all 12 wheels, which also pick up current. In 1943, employees of the Union Pacific RR agreed to an extra deduction in their paychecks to buy War Bonds during World […]
A Norfolk Southern SD70ACe pushes on an empty crude oil train in Toledo, Ohio, in March 2013. Michael D. Harding Q Watching passing freight trains, I’ve seen a locomotive located in the middle or at the end of the train. Are these pusher locomotives being run by remote control by the engineer in the lead […]
No. 576’s route back to the rails. Trains: Rick Johnson NC&StL 4-8-4 No. 576 will leave Nashville’s Centennial Park, its home for 65 years, on Jan. 13. Trains: Jim Wrinn NASHVILLE – A steam locomotive that has been on display in Nashville for decades is about to take its first journey since 1953. After two […]
NEW YORK — The spread of Precision Scheduled Railroading to most of the Class I railroad systems is both an opportunity and a risk for short line and regional railroads. The opportunity, short line executives say, is that Class I railroads focus more on carload traffic, provide service that’s more consistent and reliable, and spin […]
NEW HAVEN, Ky. — The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. will host a 75th birthday party for former Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 Kanawha No. 2716, which is under restoration by the steam group. The event will be held at the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, where the engine is located, this Saturday, Dec. 15. The […]
Union Pacific’s Roper Yard, Salt Lake City Google Maps OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific is downgrading Roper Yard in Salt Lake City and shifting manifest switching 40 miles north to Ogden, Utah, and is pruning low-volume interline intermodal lanes operated in conjunction with Norfolk Southern. The separate moves, which the railroad announced in a pair […]
NEW YORK — Union Pacific, which is bucking the Precision Scheduled Railroading trend of idling the humps at classification yards, still needs the new hump yard it’s building in Hearne, Texas, CEO Lance Fritz says. The late CEO E. Hunter Harrison converted several hump yards to flat-switching facilities at Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and CSX […]
