InterMountain N scale SD40-2 Our review sample features a split die-cast metal frame and ESU LokSound decoder. The metal contacts were bent down to make better electrical contact. A newly tooled N scale SD40-2 with a detail level that rivals larger scale models joins the InterMountain Ry. roster. For the most part the 1:160-proportion model […]
WalthersProto HO scale EMD GP35 diesel locomotive The WalthersProto GP35 has a die-cast metal frame. A metal weight surrounds the motor and flywheels and supports the decoder and speaker enclosure. The model has the thin side sill of a Phase II locomotive, as well as the later raised inertial filter hatch. The BN engine has […]
Rapido Trains HO scale General Motors Diesel Division SW1200RS diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Motors Diesel Division SW1200RS diesel locomotive. Canadian National (“wet noodle” herald with black cab and red/orange cab, and North America scheme with small “wet noodle” herald) and Canadian Pacific (block and script lettering, Action Red with 5” stripes and Multimark […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD50 diesel locomotive. Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Chicago & North Western, CSX (gray and blue in one number, Chessie System patchout in three numbers), Erie Lackawanna (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), Norfolk Southern, Northern Pacific (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), and Union Pacific. Four numbers per scheme […]
C&O EMD SD40 No. 7534 outside of CSX’s Huntington locomotive shops after being repainted in late May and early June. Joseph M. Rosenthal CLIFTON FORGE, Va. — CSX Transportation is in the process of moving Chesapeake & Ohio EMD SD40 No. 7534 from Huntington, W.Va., to its new home at the C&O Heritage Center in […]
CSX’s Huntington locomotive shops repair and rebuild EMD and some GE locomotives. The facility is located on the railroad’s ex- Chesapeake & Ohio main line in West Virginia. Chase Gunnoe HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — CSX Transportation is furloughing nearly 70 workers at its locomotive repair shops in Huntington, NBC affiliate WSAZ-TV reports. The reduction in workforce […]
Two Canadian Pacific trains, with motive power from CP, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern, meet near Oconomowoc, Wis., in November 2014. Brian Schmidt Q It is common to see a train from one railroad which is powered, partially or fully, by locomotives from another railroad. Why does this happen so frequently and how is the […]
HO scale locomotives Alco RS-32 and RS-36 diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. RS-32: Central Vermont (one road number) and Lamoille Valley (one number). RS-36: Apache Ry. (American Revolution Bicentennial, three numbers); Livonia, Avon & Lakeville (one number); National Railways of Mexico (two numbers); Ontario Central (one number); and Norfolk & Western (two numbers). New numbers. […]
Chessie System-painted C&O No. 8272 poses in Building 10 at GE Transportation’s Lawrence Park, Pa., shops for a reunion picture with GE workers who were on site when the B30-7 locomotive was built — in 1980. Greg McDonnell LAWRENCE PARK, Pa. — It wasn’t supposed to happen. When the CSX shop in Huntingdon, W. Va., […]
Led by ex-Santa Fe No. 2428, a trio of Southwestern GP30s is serviced at Deming, N.M., prior to a run to Hurley, N.M. Major mechanical work on Southwestern Railroad’s Whitewater Division is performed in the small open-air shop at Hurley. Art Miller The large GP30 fleet assembled by The Western Group is living on borrowed […]
No. 905 rolls through Glendora on the Pasadena Subdivision on Saturday. Jon Waide LOS ANGELES – The long-awaited Metrolink F125 locomotives made their main line debut over the weekend on test runs over the Metrolink Pasadena Subdivision. No. 905 was spotted testing in Glendora on Saturday. The locomotives, built by Progress Rail in Muncie, Ind., […]
Two Navajo locomotives roll west on NS train No. 309 on Saturday. Michael D. Harding FARMINGTON, N.M. – Two new diesel locomotives are en route to the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. coal mine railroad in northwestern New Mexico this week. The General Electric ET44AC locomotives, which are lettered for the company and carry Nos. 2026 […]
