Dan Dover, associate editor of Extra 2200 South, The Locomotive Newsmagazine, and railfan photographer, died from a heart attack on Sept. 5, 2017. He was 64. In 1961 Jerry Pinkepank founded Extra 2200 South (the name comes from Jerry’s street address, according to Don Dover, who succeeded Pinkepank as editor.) It was dedicated to covering […]
Type of Train: Diesel Locomotives
New model trains for the week of October 5, 2017
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SDP40F diesel locomotive. Amtrak (phase I and II schemes). Four road numbers each. Road-number-specific details, detailed cab interior, and factory-installed and painted wire grab irons. Direct-current model with 21-pin connector for Digital Command Control decoder, $219.99; with dual-mode SoundTraxx Tsunami2 sound decoder, $309.98. September 2018. Genesis series. Athearn Trains, 800-338-4639, […]
Trains Presents: Norfolk Southern’s heritage fleet
Take a look at Norfolk Southern’s beloved heritage locomotive fleet, starting with the July 2012 extravaganza at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. You’ll even here from former NS CEO Wick Moorman! […]
Trains Presents: Norfolk Southern’s heritage fleet
Take a look at Norfolk Southern’s beloved heritage locomotive fleet, starting with the July 2012 extravaganza at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. You’ll even here from former NS CEO Wick Moorman! […]
O gauge F7 diesel from Atlas O
O gauge F7 diesel from Atlas O Price: $499.95 (No. 30134013) Min Curve: O-36 (A unit), O-45 (B unit) Cmd Low: 4 smph Cnv Low: 9.9 smph High: 71 smph Drawbar pull: 1 lb., 6 oz. Features: Two can-style motors, Lionel TrainMaster Command System, Electric Railroad Co. Cruise Commander speed control, smoke unit, alternate scale […]
Progress Rail unveils new EMD Tier 4 switcher in California NEWSWIRE
Progress Rail officials unveiled their new Tier 4 emission standard-compliant EMD GP24B at Long Beach, Calif., on Monday. Charles Freericks LONG BEACH, Calif. – There is a new Tier 4 road switcher option for railroads now demonstrating on the Pacific Harbor Line in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Progress Rail, a wholly […]
Video: ScaleTrainscom HO scale SD40-2
This HO scale SD40-2 from ScaleTrains.com is part of the firm’s Rivet Counter series. Our Norfolk Southern version features an admiral cab and bristles with other roadname-specific detail. The HO scale diesel locomotive also came factory equipped with an ESU LokSound decoder. Follow along as senior editor Dana Kawala uses the SD40-2 to work a […]
Video: ScaleTrainscom HO scale SD40-2
This HO scale SD40-2 from ScaleTrains.com is part of the firm’s Rivet Counter series. Our Norfolk Southern version features an admiral cab and bristles with other roadname-specific detail. The HO scale diesel locomotive also came factory equipped with an ESU LokSound decoder. Follow along as senior editor Dana Kawala uses the SD40-2 to work a […]
Reading & Northern to chop high-hood noses on ex-Southern GP38s NEWSWIRE
PORT CLINTON, Pa. — Reading & Northern continues to add to its locomotive roster to keep up with growing business on the 320-mile northeastern Pennsylvania short line. The railroad’s latest acquisitions are three EMD GP38-2s, purchased at a Norfolk Southern equipment action in Roanoke, Va. Ranging from 38- to 43-years old, NS Nos. 5139, 5184, […]
GE Transportation builds its 10,000th GEVO NEWSWIRE
An Indian Railways GEVO ES43ACmi No. 49002 at Erie, Pa., in June 2017. Railroads around the world use GEVO locomotives. CHICAGO — Years after introducing the first model of its Evolution Series locomotive, General Electric has built the 10,000th locomotive in the series, GE officials say. All Class I railroads in the U.S. use Evolution […]
Meat reefers at Hormel
A Milwaukee Road switcher moves a cut of refrigerator cars at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minn., in 1942. Most of the reefers are wood-sheathed cars leased from North American. Classic Trains collection […]
C&O F7 heading for repainting in West Virginia NEWSWIRE
Chesapeake & Ohio F7 No. 8016 on the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum’s Spencer, N.C., shops. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn SPENCER, N.C. — An F7 is heading to CSX Transportation’s Huntington, W.Va., locomotive shops for re-painting, say sources close to the matter. Norfolk Southern crews hooked on to Chesapeake & Ohio F7 No. 8016 […]
