Conrail E33 No. 4601 rests at the Railroad Museum of New England’s yard on April 9, 1988, after arriving from GE’s Erie, Pa., facility. The hole behind cab is where the main transformer was removed by GE. Howard Pincus OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. – The Illinois Railway Museum will acquire a piece of railroad history from […]
Fox Valley Models HO GP60M and GP60B diesel locomotives Dressed up in the warbonnet livery of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., Fox Valley Models’ GP60M and GP60B model unique ATSF prototypes. Both HO scale locomotives are available with ESU LokSound dual-mode decoders for realistic sound effects on direct-current and Digital Command Control layouts. […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP9M diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Alaska RR, Boston & Maine, Chessie System (with Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks), Norfolk Southern (post-1982 company), and Union Pacific (“We can handle it” slogan on cab). One road number per scheme. All-wheel drive and electrical pickup, five-pole can motor with dual flyhweels, and […]
MTH O gauge RailKing SD9 Price: $329.95 (The no. 30-20196-1) Chessie System (B&O) Features: O-31 operation, has a metal frame, and die-cast metal trucks and couplers, two can-style motors, an operating smoke unit, and coil couplers, and ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system. Current run road names: Chessie System (B&O), Great Northern, Norfolk Southern, and […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD70, SD70M, and SD75M diesel locomotives. SD70: Conrail (Quality scheme) and Illinois Central. SD70M: New York, Susquehanna & Western (three road numbers); Southern Pacific; and Union Pacific (with flared radiators). SD75M: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Four numbers per scheme unless noted. Road-number-specific details, operating ditch lights, and wire grab […]
PRR passenger service from Xenia north to Springfield, Ohio, — protected by an old gas-electric motor car — ended on July 21, 1953. Harry V. Noble Xenia, my hometown in southwestern Ohio, was on the Pennsylvania’s Pittsburgh-St. Louis main line 16 miles east of Dayton. Xenia was also the base of a branch line north […]
Price: Ready-to-run 6-packs priced at $139.99 per set Manufacturer: Broadway Limited Imports 9 East Tower Circle Ormond Beach, FL 32174 www.broadway-limited.com Era: 1948 to 1980s Road names (six-packs): Illinois Central; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Baltimore & Ohio; Chicago & North Western; CP Rail; CSX; Denver & Rio Grande Western; Great Northern; New York Central; […]
N&W No. 611 passes through Dry Fork, Va., with a short freight train as part of a June 15 ferry move. Kevin Gilliam Newly restored Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 No. 611 was back in action Monday, in somewhat unexpected fashion: as a freight hauler. After trips for the Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam […]
A runaway coal truck temporarily closed Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Line in Summerhill, Pa. Erik Rasmussen SUMMERHILL, Pa. – A runaway coal truck crashed onto the NS Pittsburgh Line Friday, damaged two tracks and stopping main line rail traffic. At approximately 3 p.m. on June 12, a coal-hauling dump truck lost its brakes while travelling southeast […]
Athearn HO scale Electro-Motive Division SD60M diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD60M diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: BNSF Ry. (experimental merger scheme in one road number, Heritage I in one number, and Heritage II in two numbers), CSX (Conrail patchout), Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific. Four numbers each unless noted. Five-pole skew-wound motor […]
LURAY, Va. – The town of Luray, working in cooperation with the Page County Railroad Club, has opened the Page County Railway Museum in the former Norfolk & Western depot. The project was more than 10 years in the making. It features exhibits tracing the history of railroading in Page County, with items such as […]
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Norfolk Southern has donated former Southern Railway “Big John” covered hopper car No. 8744 to the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum. The car has a connection to Tennessee, as the Big John hoppers were maintained during the first half of their careers at the now gone Coster Shop in Knoxville. It will […]
