A Joe Works HOn30 Shay pulls a string of ore cars from the processing mill back to the mining district. The train will climb approximately 17″ from the mine site. The elevation is possible on the rugged 3′ x 7′ section of the layout by utilizing a helix on each end of this part of […]
A Joe Works HOn30 Shay pulls a string of ore cars from the processing mill back to the mining district. The train will climb approximately 17″ from the mine site. The elevation is possible on the rugged 3′ x 7′ section of the layout by utilizing a helix on each end of this part of […]
The video features a log train, making its way from the high country to the mill at Sawyer. The train will pass through Clear Creek, over several bridges and through several tunnels. The Dixie Creek Central shares track rights with the Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry., which serves mines on the upper level of the layout. […]
The video features a log train, making its way from the high country to the mill at Sawyer. The train will pass through Clear Creek, over several bridges and through several tunnels. The Dixie Creek Central shares track rights with the Fiddletown & Copperopolis Ry., which serves mines on the upper level of the layout. […]
With so much talk about Union Pacific’s effort to restore Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4014, the world wants to know … what is a wristpin? Listen in as UP steam boss Ed Dickens Jr. talks about this 50-pound plus hunk of metal without which a live, steaming Big Boy would grind to a halt. […]
Ed Gerlits Jim Wrinn POMONA, Calif. — Ed Gerlits, a well-known Denver-area railroad enthusiast, former Colorado tourist railroad owner, and the man who just last month welcomed scores of visitors to witness Union Pacific move Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, has died. He was 79. Gerlits, the long-time mentor […]
The Blackstone Models HOn3 (HO scale 3-foot gauge) 2-8-0 Consolidation features a SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. We ran the superdetailed steam locomotive on Blackstone’s new ProTraxx HOn3 click track. […]
The Blackstone Models HOn3 (HO scale 3-foot gauge) 2-8-0 Consolidation features a SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. We ran the superdetailed steam locomotive on Blackstone’s new ProTraxx HOn3 click track. […]
Blackstone Models HOn3 2-8-0 steam locomotive There’s a new HOn3 Consolidation out, and she’s a beaut. Blackstone Models’ narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande Western/Rio Grande Southern class C-19 Consolidation has die-cast metal construction, a plastic tender, plenty of wire and cast-metal details, and a SoundTraxx Digital Command Control sound decoder. The prototype. The locomotive […]
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Join Trains’ Editor Jim Wrinn on a three-day adventure watching Union Pacific Big Boy-type No. 4014 take its first baby steps toward restoration in Pomona, Calif. Jim’s three-minute time lapse video documents the painstaking work of Union Pacific’s heritage department in hand-laying track and carefully towing the giant 4-8-8-4 locomotive in sweltering early autumn weather. […]
Join Trains Associate Editor Steve Sweeney on a guided tour of Big Boy No. 4014 – from the firebox! Narration provided by Union Pacific’s senior manager of heritage operations, Ed Dickens Jr. […]
