Video: Bachmann HO scale E-Z App Alco RS-3

Bachmann HO scale EZ App Alco RS3

This HO scale Alco RS-3 diesel locomotive from Bachmann Trains features the firm’s new E-Z App control system. Using Bluetooth technology, this app allows modelers to run an E-Z App locomotive using an Apple iOS device. Watch senior editor Dana Kawala, run the E-Z App RS-3 and trigger sound effects along the Model Railroader staff’s […]

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Video: Bachmann HO scale E-Z App Alco RS-3

Bachmann HO scale EZ App Alco RS3

This HO scale Alco RS-3 diesel locomotive from Bachmann Trains features the firm’s new E-Z App control system. Using Bluetooth technology, this app allows modelers to run an E-Z App locomotive using an Apple iOS device. Watch senior editor Dana Kawala, run the E-Z App RS-3 and trigger sound effects along the Model Railroader staff’s […]

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Kato N scale Amtrak ACS-64

Kato N scale ACS-64

Kato N scale ACS-64 with Amfleet I cars The first prototype Cities Sprinter locomotives have been on Amtrak property for little more than two years, and now N scale modelers can get their hands on one from Kato. Also known as the ACS-64, these locomotives will pull all non-Acela trains on Amtrak’s electrified Northeast Corridor. […]

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Georgia heritage

Norfolk Southern ES440AC No. 8101, honoring the heritage of the Central of Georgia Railway, leads westbound train 66E through Old Fort, N.C., on Oct. 19, 2012. Photo by Grady McKinley […]

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New model trains for the week of February 11, 2016

Bowser HO scale General Motors Diesel SD40-2 diesel locomotive

Bowser HO scale General Motors Diesel SD40-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Motors Diesel SD40-2 diesel locomotive. CP Rail (small Multimark in two road numbers, as-delivered scheme, large Multimark with 8” stripes in two numbers, no Multimark with or without number on rear of long hood in two numbers each, and dual-flag scheme in […]

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NS progresses on its SD70ACU program NEWSWIRE

NSSD70ACU

Norfolk Southern SD70ACU No. 7319 is ready, but not released for service, at the railroad’s shops in Altoona, Pa. The railroad has already completed two refits from SD90MACs. L.R. Myers of AltoonaWorks.info ALTOONA, Pa. — Norfolk Southern has released the first two of its rebuilt SD70ACU locomotives from its Altoona, Pa., shop in January. The […]

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Pennsylvania, Canadian companies introduce Tier 4 switcher NEWSWIRE

Tier4switcher

Tractive Power Corp.’s new Tier 4 switching locomotive sits outside of Curry Rail Service’s Hollidaysburg, Pa., facility earlier this year. Collin Reinhart HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. — Tier 4 locomotives come in all shapes and sizes. Among the smallest so far is from Curry Rail Services, which recently unveiled a Tier 4-compliant industrial switcher it built under […]

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