JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The way CSX Transportation is handling more tonnage with fewer locomotives, freight cars, and people is a textbook example of Precision Scheduled Railroading at work. For the third quarter, CSX’s revenue ton-miles were up 7 percent and overall volume grew 4 percent compared to the same period last year. Yet CSX was […]
Canadian Pacific AC44CWM No. 8200 begins testing at the GE Transportation test track near Erie, Pa. Stephan M. Koenig LAWRENCE PARK, Pa. — Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 8200 is the first of the latest group of 30 AC4400CWs to enter testing after being rebuilt at GE Transportation’s shops near Erie, Pa. The locomotive began evaluation on […]
Kato USA HO scale General Electric C44-9W diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Electric C44-9W diesel locomotive. Southern Pacific and Union Pacific. Two road numbers each. Late hi-adhesion trucks, deck-mounted ditch lights, and illuminated number boxes. With motor and headlight control only Digital Command Control decoder, $260; with dual-mode ESU LokSound sound decoder (special order […]
WalthersMainline HO scale EMD F7 diesels New tooling and realistic sound highlight these HO scale General Motors Electro-Motive Division F7 locomotives from Walthers. Part of the value-priced WalthersMainline series, the models feature accurately detailed body shells and are available with optional dual-mode sound decoders that operate on Digital Command Control (DCC) and direct-current (DC) layouts. […]
Sharing the joys of toy trains at Christmas […]
This video features a Rio Grande 48-car coal train at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s 2018 Rio Grande Days. […]
This video features a Rio Grande 48-car coal train at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s 2018 Rio Grande Days. […]
Santa Fe FP45 No. 108 running through its paces at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Southern California on Saturday, Oct. 6. David R. Busse An image of the restored interior of Santa Fe FP45 No. 108. The cab’s green paint is correct “EMD green” for its restoration in an as delivered appearance. David R. […]
The second Super C test run set a record with a 34-hour 35-minute run from Chicago to Los Angeles in January 1968. Crane operators had the first trailer on the ground about a minute after arrival. Santa Fe photo […]
Roy Hill and GE Transportation officials pose on the pilot deck of a GE ES44ACi locomotive painted pink for breast cancer awareness. GE Transportation FORT WORTH, Texas — On Thursday, Roy Hill, Hancock Prospecting, and GE celebrated a Pilbara, Australia and Australasia first with the arrival of two new pink locomotives at an event held […]
Connecticut Department of Transportation FL9s stored at New Haven, Conn., in 2014. Scott A. Hartley NEW HAVEN, CONN. – Six Connecticut Department of Transportation Electro-Motive FL9 locomotives, stored out of service since 2009, have found new homes from New England to Texas. The new owners include the Boston Surface Railroad Co. of Woonsocket, R.I.; Massachusetts Coastal […]
CHICAGO — Iowa Interstate Railroad announced on Tuesday that it will acquire three new Evolution Series locomotives from GE Transportation. The locomotives will be produced in early 2020 and used to transport grains, ethanol, metals, and more across Iowa Interstate’s network between Chicago and Omaha, Neb. “For over a decade, [Iowa Interstate] has invested heavily […]
