A southbound Amtrak Acela Express overtakes an outbound empty Norfolk Southern oil train on the Northeast Corridor lead by the Central of New Jersey-painted heritage unit near Elkton, Md., on Jan. 4, 2015. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
Zone & Region: Northeast
Steaming in the snow
Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Live steam Regner Konrad steaming during a spring snow. […]
Summertime logging
Name: Shawn Vigggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Summertime logging with live steam Regner Class A Climax and scratch built log cars and log loader. […]
Steaming in the snow
Name: Shawn Viggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Live steam Regner Konrad steaming during a spring snow. […]
Summertime logging
Name: Shawn Vigggiano Railroad Name: Kittatinny Mountain Railroad Location: Wantage NJ Scale: 1:20 Theme: Backwoods logging Description: Summertime logging with live steam Regner Class A Climax and scratch built log cars and log loader. […]
Norfolk Southern dedicates new Genesee Arch Bridge in upstate New York NEWSWIRE
A Norfolk Southern train passes south (railroad east) over the new Genesee Arch Bridge officials dedicated on May 24, 2018. Norfolk Southern/John Kucko Digital CASTILE, N.Y. — Ushering in a modern era for freight rail in New York’s Southern Tier, Norfolk Southern and New York State officials, along with supporters, today dedicated a new steel […]
Delaware-Lackawanna celebrates 25 years with a special train NEWSWIRE
Business car No. 2 rests at Scranton after the special 25th anniversary trip for the Delaware-Lackawanna short line. The car is in front of the former Delaware Lackawanna & Western station that is now a hotel. Greg McDonnell SCRANTON, Pa. — Comfortably seated on a traditional folding wooden chair on the rear platform of a […]
New England Central begins work on track improvement project NEWSWIRE
New England Central SD40-2 No. 3405 leads a welded rail train through Willimantic, Conn., on May 3, 2018. Scott A. Hartley WILLIMANTIC, Conn. — The southern 55 miles of Genesee & Wyoming’s New England Central Railroad will begin to handle industry-standard 286,000-pound freight cars later this year, thanks to track improvements made possible by a […]
Green Mountain Railroad expands dinner train service NEWSWIRE
A Green Mountain passenger excursion waits at the Ludlow, Vt., depot in 2015. In addition to the new Burlington trips, dinner trains will resume out of Chester in September. Steve Glischinski BURLINGTON, Vt. – Vermont Railway System’s Green Mountain Railroad is expanding dinner train service next month with the introduction of the Champlain Valley Dinner […]
Polishing the rails for General Electric
New York Central S3 No. 9363 stands on the West Side line in Manhattan in 1967. Thirteen years earlier and 150 miles to the north, the road used another Alco switcher in a novel attempt to capture special-train business. Elliot Kahn, Louis A. Marre coll. In a lifetime of reading about railroading, I’ve seen the […]
3D Track Plans: The HO scale Morristown & Erie Railway
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this exclusive MRVP video, subscribers are treated to a unique 3-D rendering inspired by an episode of MRVP’s Taking Care of Business series. After reading about the railroad in Model Railroading: The Ultimate Guide, you’ll enjoy Ben Lake’s virtual tour of the HO […]
3D Track Plans: The HO scale Morristown & Erie Railway
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this exclusive MRVP video, subscribers are treated to a unique 3-D rendering inspired by an episode of MRVP’s Taking Care of Business series. After reading about the railroad in Model Railroading: The Ultimate Guide, you’ll enjoy Ben Lake’s virtual tour of the HO […]