HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe diesel locomotive. Canadian National (SD70ACe demonstrator patchout), Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern (Lackawanna, New York Central, and Wabash heritage units in one number each and horsehead silhouette), Union Pacific (George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and Chicago & North Western, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Southern Pacific […]
The Rivarossi/Hornby USA HO scale General Electric U28C features newly designed handrails and an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. See and hear this diesel locomotive and it hauls a freight train around the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine & Troy model railroad. […]
The Rivarossi/Hornby USA HO scale General Electric U28C features newly designed handrails and an ESU LokSound Select Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. See and hear this diesel locomotive and it hauls a freight train around the Model Railroader staff’s Milwaukee, Racine & Troy model railroad. […]
Rivarossi HO scale U28C The 2,800-horsepower General Electric U28C was a transitional locomotive. As such, it shared components with its predecessor U25C in its early production, and its successor U30C in late production. Rivarossi is taking advantage of this circumstance to offer an early production U28C based on its previous U25C. Dimensions matched published figures […]
Norfolk Southern’s Southern Railway-painted ES44AC, No. 8099, leads intermodal train No. 200 south across the CSX diamond at Milford Junction, Ind., on June 12, 2016. Photo by Randy Olson […]
On June 16, 1990, Santa Fe Railway GP60M No. 114 leads a westbound intermodal train near Ethel, Mo. These locomotives were originally purchased for intermodal service and have since been transitioned by the railroad to switching duties. Tom Danneman Q I’m a fan of BNSF Railway and have seen their ex-Santa Fe GP60Ms used in […]
Photographers spotted MotivePower’s HSP-46 No. 2003 at Pueblo, Colo., in 2013, in transit to the nearby Transportation Technology Center. The locomotive manufacturer says it will lay off more than 200 workers as the demand for new units slows. Daren Genau BOISE, Idaho — Officials with MotivePower Inc. say they’ll lay off 210 people at the […]
Oregon Rail Supply, manufacturer or HO scale signals and other accessories for model railroaders, announced that it is not going out of business or seeking new ownership. “We appreciate the concern and patience shown us by so many, following the unexpected death last August of my husband, Dick Yager, the founder of Oregon Rail Supply,” […]
This HO scale General Motors Diesel Division (GMDD) models a Canadian-built version of the SD40-2 diesel-electric locomotive. The model accurately depicts its CP Rail prototype, including functioning classification lights. An ESU LokSound Select decoder provides realistic sound and lighting effects and operates on Digital Command Control (DCC) and direct-current (DC) layouts. Watch the locomotive run […]
This HO scale General Motors Diesel Division (GMDD) models a Canadian-built version of the SD40-2 diesel-electric locomotive. The model accurately depicts its CP Rail prototype, including functioning classification lights. An ESU LokSound Select decoder provides realistic sound and lighting effects and operates on Digital Command Control (DCC) and direct-current (DC) layouts. Watch the locomotive run […]
Restored Soo Line FP7 2500A poses at the Dresser, Wis., depot during a May 2 photo charter. Steve Glischinski OSCEOLA, Wis. – Cooperation among two railroad museums brought Soo Line FP7 2500A to home rails earlier this month. The agreement between the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, which owns the former passenger F unit, and the […]
Norfolk Southern EMD SD40 No. 3170 makes a special appearance at the N.C. Transportation Museum in May 2015. Chase Gunnoe CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s collection of Southern Railway heritage is growing by one locomotive. Norfolk Southern has donated Southern Railway EMD SD40 No. 3170 to the Chattanooga museum. The locomotive was […]
