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 […]
Reading & Northern F7 No. 251, still carrying New York, Ontario & Western colors applied by former owner Southern Railroad of New Jersey, rests at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., June 9, 2017, with mate No. 250. Two photos, Scott A. Hartley PORT CLINTON, Pa. – With all that is happening on Pennsylvania regional railroad Reading & […]
Meet Grant Eastman and hear about the objectives, design, and operations philosophies behind his N scale Southern Alberta Rail. Video by Mark Dance. […]
Meet Grant Eastman and hear about the objectives, design, and operations philosophies behind his N scale Southern Alberta Rail. Video by Mark Dance. […]
Rolf Christinat’s fictional N scale Sonora Pass layout is inspired by the arid landscapes located in the Western States. […]
O GAUGE SD60E DIESEL FROM MTH ELECTRIC TRAINS Price: $499.95 (no. 20-20594-2) Min Curve: O-42 Cmd Low: 5.9 smph Cnv Low: 6.8 smph High: 71.9 smph Drawbar pull: 1 lb., 9.6 oz. Features: Two can-style motors, ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system, smoke unit, coil couplers Current production road name: Norfolk Southern The Norfolk Southern […]
Utah Railway MK50-3 No. 5001 on the Utah Railway near Helper, Utah, in June 2015. Chase Gunnoe PHILLIPSBURG, Kan. — With the decline in coal traffic on the Utah Railway, Genesee & Wyoming has moved six Utah Railway units to its Kyle Railroad. BNSF Railway moved the MK50-3 units from Utah to Kansas this spring. […]
HO scale locomotives Illinois Central Paducah, Ky.,-rebuilt GP10 diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Arizona & Eastern (Genesee & Wyoming scheme, two road numbers), Bloomer Line (two numbers), Carlton Trail Ry. (four numbers), Central Kansas Ry. (Okanagan Valley Ry. patchout, two numbers), Gulf & Mississippi (one number), Hudson Bay Ry. (one number), Louisiana & Delta (Genesee […]
Chris Comport, 68, died on May 4 in Wisconsin. Chris wrote several stories for Model Railroader and other hobby magazines and was a professional model builder who built client layouts while working with Raildreams Inc. Chris also worked for A.I.M. Products (now part of Monroe Models) and offered his own line of model railroad structures […]
Classic Metal Works 1941/46 Chevrolet Delivery trucks are examples of the scale vehicles that are popular with model railroaders. Classic Metal Works/CMW Holdings Ltd., producer of the Mini Metals line of HO and N scale vehicles, has entered into a 5-year licensing agreement with Round 2 LLC. After that term CMW Holdings Ltd. may agree […]
A New York, New Haven & Hartford commuter train hustles past a station on the recently opened Gulliver’s Gate HO scale model railroad exhibit in New York. Photo courtesy Gulliver’s Gate/Pascal Perich A new HO scale model railroad exhibit opened in April. Gulliver’s Gate, a football field-sized display in New York’s Times Square, features well-known […]
With a mid-1960s mix-n-match consist, a Westbound Denver & Rio Grande Western hauls an equally varied manifest freight over the Golden Spike Train Club of Utah layout. Heavy equipment, pipe, and a string of empty hoppers and gondolas headed back for more black diamonds give this train some character. […]
