Name: Adam Matthews Railroad Name: North Western Railroad Location: Ohio Scale: O Gauge Theme: Freelanced Hi-Rail based on Northeast Ohio Description: My Lionel Vision Line Big Boy 4014 hauls a string of 29 reefer cars around the new mainline on the Lower Level of the North Western Railroad. […]
Name: Adam Matthews Railroad Name: North Western Railroad Location: Ohio Scale: O Gauge Theme: Freelanced Hi-Rail based on Northeast Ohio Description: My Lionel Vision Line Big Boy 4014 hauls a string of 29 reefer cars around the new mainline on the Lower Level of the North Western Railroad. […]
Cheseapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716 takes on coal at Hayne Yard in Spartanburg, S.C., in July 1982. Jim Wrinn C&O No. 2716 steams northbound at the Amtrak station on the Southern Railway main line, bound for Greensboro, N.C., in July 1982. Jim Wrinn LEXINGTON, Ky. — A non-profit Kentucky group says its members will restore […]
I decided to step out of my comfort zone of working with diesels, and detailed (including replacing some parts) and weathered this huge HO gauge Lima Allegheny Blue-Ridge Virginian steam locomotive. […]
O gauge 4-6-0 Camelback from MTH Price: $449.95 (no. 30-1635-1) Min Curve: O-31 Cmd Low: 3.1 smph, Cnv Low: 8.2 smph, High: 76.0 smph, Drawbar Pull: 1 lb., 8 oz. Features: Can-style motor, ProtoSound 2.0, coil coupler, smoke unit. Current production road names: Baltimore & Ohio, Central RR of New Jersey, Long Island RR, and […]
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The Athearn Ready To Roll SD40 is also available decorated for Burlington Northern Santa Fe. There’s a lot to like about this newly tooled Athearn Ready-to-Roll HO scale Electro-Motive Division SD40. From its road-specific details to its SoundTraxx sound decoder, this model ticks many of the boxes on many modelers’ wishlists. The prototype. The six-axle […]
With the layout scenery shaking from the low-bass thumps of each exhaust stroke, and perfectly timed puffs of white smoke rising above the stack, I half-expected to smell cinders as Broadway Limited Imports’ latest HO scale model of the Pennsylvania RR M1a 4-8-2 rolled by. The model uses the same tooling as the BLI M1a […]
ROANOKE, Va. – World famous Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 will pull public excursions four weekends between April and June in its home state of Virginia and North Carolina, the Virginia Museum of Transportation and North Carolina Transportation Museum announced Monday. The announcement ends weeks of speculation as to the extent of NS’s […]
Rock Island class R-67 Northern 5114 has just passed Joliet (Ill.) Union Station and crossed the GM&O/ATSF diamond as it steams toward Chicago with an eastbound freight in fall 1951. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 No. 611 pulls a photographers’ special at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in May 2015. Jim Wrinn If a locomotive can mend broken hearts, Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 does so with caressing steam. Fans of the locomotive have long said this railroad-built Class J is […]
