In this exclusive video for Model Railroader from James Wright of the JLWII2000 YouTube channel, you’ll see highlights of the second run of the HO scale General Electric ES44AC diesel locomotives from Broadway Limited Imports. Part of the firm’s Pargon3 series, these HO scale models feature sound and smoke. […]
Type of Train: Diesel Locomotives
JLWII2000 Video: Broadway Limited Imports Paragon3 HO scale GE ES44AC
In this exclusive video for Model Railroader from James Wright of the JLWII2000 YouTube channel, you’ll see highlights of the second run of the HO scale General Electric ES44AC diesel locomotives from Broadway Limited Imports. Part of the firm’s Pargon3 series, these HO scale models feature sound and smoke. […]
Arrowhead Models announces first car
An HO scale “committee design” three-bay hopper is the first release from Arrowhead Models, a Sheridan, Wyo.-based model railroad manufacturing company owned by Blaine Hadfield. The model is based on a prototype designed cooperatively by Norfolk & Western, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Pennsylvania RR and built by those railroads and commercial car builders American Car […]
Factory closure impacts several model railroad manufacturers
In late July Affa Technology Ltd., a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of model trains, radio-controlled toys, scale cars, and other items, announced it had closed. Some of the model railroad manufacturers impacted by this news include American Z Line, Atlas Model Railroad Co., Bowser, ExactRail, Fox Valley Models, InterMountain Railway Co., Trainworx, and Wheels of Time. […]
New model trains for the week of August 2, 2018
Accurail HO scale assorted freight cars HO scale freight cars Assorted freight cars. Northern Pacific Pullman-Standard 4,750-cubic-foot-capacity three-bay covered hopper, $19.98. Clinchfield 36-foot double-sheathed boxcar with wood ends and fish-belly frame, $17.98. Grand Trunk 36-foot Fowler boxcar, $17.98. New York Central subsidiary (Cincinnati Northern; Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny; and Toledo & Ohio Central) United States […]
Walthers N scale EMD SW1200 diesel
Walthers N scale EMD SW1200 diesel Electro-Motive Division’s SW1200 was its last switcher powered by the 567-series diesel engine, and Walthers has re-released the model in N scale in seven paint schemes. The direct-current (DC) models are equipped with Micro-Trains couplers and are upgraded to accept Digitrax or Train Control Systems Digital Command Control (DCC) […]
Durango & Silverton to buy two narrow gauge diesels from South Carolina NEWSWIRE
A Durango & Silverton locomotive pauses at Silverton, Colo. Soon 2,000-hp diesel locomotives will replace certain 2-8-2 steam locomotives on the historic narrow gauge line. TRAINS: David Lassen DURANGO, Colo. — The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is purchasing two new three-foot gauge diesel locomotives for $3.2 million from Motive Power & Equipment Solutions […]
HO scale Rock Island Twin Star Rocket passenger train
I took this train as a boy from Minneapolis to Mason City to visit relatives. I loved to watch this train pulling into the CNW station which where my Grandfather worked as a train dispatcher. Video by Gene Borman. […]
HO scale Rock Island Twin Star Rocket passenger train
I took this train as a boy from Minneapolis to Mason City to visit relatives. I loved to watch this train pulling into the CNW station which where my Grandfather worked as a train dispatcher. Video by Gene Borman. […]
In Memoriam: Jim King 1923 2018
Former Kalmbach Publishing Co. president James J. (Jim) King died on July 20. He was 95 years old. Al Kalmbach hired Jim to serve as the company’s controller in July 1954. In 1963, he was named Kalmbach’s executive vice president. Two years later, he became company president, a position he held for 22 years. Jim […]
Brazilian group saves GE C30-7A NEWSWIRE
A GE-made Brazilian C30-7A that will be saved thanks to efforts of local volunteers. Contributed photo ARARAQUARA, São Paulo, Brazil — A South American preservation group has teamed up with Brazil’s largest railroad to save the country’s only surviving General Electric C30-7A locomotive. Earlier in July, the Regional Sul de Minas Chapter of the Brazilian […]
Bob’s Train Box: Episode 68
In the lazy crazy days of summer, Bob Keller of Classic Toy Trains has a slew of new toy trains and related products to share with you! […]