Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Bob’s Train Box returns in 2016! Host Bob Keller highlights several new O gauge toy trains and ancillary products, including new freight cars from ETS, Atlas O, and Menards; passenger cars from MTH; a large industrial structure from Menards; books from various publishers; […]
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Trains Presents: 611 in winter
Follow along with famed Norfolk & Western J Class 4-8-4 No. 611 on its 2016 journey from Virginia to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. See the classic streamlined steam locomotive and other trains out along the Norfolk Southern main line. Be sure to check out our special issue, 611 In Steam, and related […]
County landmark
A westbound Napoleon, Defiance & Western train passes the elevator in Antwerp, Ohio, on Oct. 17, 2014. With a modern unit train facility in the region, the elevator doesn’t have much use for the railroad anymore here. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Don’t look down
The Mount Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire puts on a show for visitors on July 27, 2014. Seen here is Jacob’s Ladder, the steepest part of the route at 37.4 percent. Photo by Ryan Trela […]
Member video: Oregon Joint Line layout tour
Check out this layout tour of Dean Ferris’ 25′ x 28′ N scale proto-lanced Northern Pacific-Great Northern mainline connecting the Pacific Northwest to Nevada/Calfifornia, just prior to the 1970 Burlington Northern merger. […]
Head-on
With a fresh crew on board, a westbound Canadian Pacific freight departs Portage, Wis., and chases the setting sun on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Around the corner
A loaded crude oil BNSF Railway train snakes along Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line near Otis, Ind., on Oct. 20, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
EMD SD70ACe-T4 video tour
Have you seen the latest in diesel locomotive technology? Associate Editor Steve Sweeney walks through the new Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe-T4 locomotive at the 2015 Railway Interchange trade show in Minneapolis with a factory representative. Learn more about the locomotive and see it up close, inside and out! […]
Member video: Arcadia & Betsey River Ry. layout tour, part 2
Willamette No. 17 hauls a string of loaded log cars to the operating log dump on the HO scale Arcadia & Betsey River Ry. […]
Whiteout
Canadian National train M345 heads north at Rantoul, Ill., on the Chicago Subdivision after meeting a southbound in subzero temperatures and fierce blowing snow. Photo by Erik Coleman […]
Into the night
A train load of coal rolls the last mile from the mine in Wyoming to the Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan, Wis., at dusk on July 22, 2012. Photo by Rich Peters […]
Crossroads
A westbound loaded CSX coal train approaches the diamonds in Deshler, Ohio, on June 14, 2014. The cross track is CSX’s Toledo to Cincinnati main line. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]