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Check out the Athearn Trains Genesis-series model of the Santa Fe “Topeka cab” GP7. The HO scale locomotive model captures the road number-specific details of its prototype. Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala will also show you some of the highlights of the locomotive’s factory-installed SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. […]
Check out the Athearn Trains Genesis-series model of the Santa Fe “Topeka cab” GP7. The HO scale locomotive model captures the road number-specific details of its prototype. Model Railroader senior editor Dana Kawala will also show you some of the highlights of the locomotive’s factory-installed SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. […]
HO scale locomotives Southern Pacific class Mt-4 4-8-2 steam locomotive with Skyline casing. Daylight scheme (three road numbers) and black with SOUTHERN PACIFIC or SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES on tender (one number each). Prototype-specific drivers, pilot, and crosshead; class 120-C-6 semi-Vanderbilt tender; and metal handrails. Direct-current model with Quick Plug for Digital Command Control decoder, $319.98; […]
O gauge EMD F7 A-B-A set from MTH Price: $729.95 (no. 20-20391-1) Features: O-31 operation, two powered A units with two can-style motors per unit; a coil coupler on each A unit, ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system) Current run road names: Alaska RR, Northern Pacific; Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac; and Southern Pacific For railroad […]
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A well-executed Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe chop-nose GP7 has been added to Athearn’s HO scale Genesis line. The model features road number-specific details, etched-metal radiator intake and fan grills, and a dual-mode SoundTraxx sound decoder. Athearn offers the Santa Fe GP7 in two body styles. The Phase I body has 86″ engine compartment doors […]
English’s Model Railroad, a model train store owned by Bowser Manufacturing, was robbed over the weekend. Two burglars in the early morning of March 16 made off with hundreds of model train locomotives, rolling stock and other products from English’s Model Railroad Supply in Montoursville, Pa. “It’s really kind of startling when you walk in […]
No. 3170 rests outside the paint shop at Debutts Yard in Chattanooga, Tenn., prior to its return to service. Norfolk Southern CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Norfolk Southern has unveiled a new addition to its vaunted heritage fleet: Southern Railway SD40 No. 3170. The locomotive was recently saved from the back lot; rebuilt into operating condition at […]
Two Western Maryland F3s haul a 2-10-0 and its train on the outskirts of Baltimore. The diesels were on the train for just a short distance to keep the Decapod from running afoul of municipal anti-smoke laws. Francis Riffle photo […]
A BNSF ES44C4’s radiator assembly in the plant at Fort Worth, Texas. Both GE and EMD radiator sections are prebuilt and set onto the frame during assembly. Chris Guss Locomotive engine heat, left uncontrolled, can damage engine parts and shorten the life of the engine and its attached components. An effective radiator system keeps the […]
New Haven FL9 2019, owned by Railroad Museum of New England, during North Carolina Transportation Museum’s Streamliners at Spencer event in June 2014. Robert S. McGonigal View a list of the 22 survivors of the New Haven’s original fleet of 60 FL9 locomotives […]
