1946 - 1970 Archives - Page 23 of 171

Q GP30s at Rochelle

Four red-and-gray diesels pull a freight through an interlocking on a clear winter day

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Doug Dederick’s N scale Great Northern

Title screen from video showing N scale model railroad.

Doug Dederick’s N scale Great Northern Kalispell Division is set in Montana in the late 1950s. The 29 x 36-foot walk-in layout, featured in the April 2024 issue of Model Railroader, is set between Whitefish, Mont., and Shelby, Mont. The model railroad features several of GN’s name passenger and freight trains, including the Empire Builder, […]

Doug Dederick’s N scale Great Northern

Penn Central Cabin

A black-and-white photo of a Penn Central caboose with a white side stripe

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Santa Fe FT freight

A black-and-white photo of a manifest freight train headed by a pair of EMD FT diesels running through the San Fernando Valley in California.

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Pacemaker Freight Service

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Lionel No. 3474 Western Pacific Operating Boxcar upgrades any collection

The Lionel No. 3474 Western Pacific Operating Boxcar upgrades any collection of postwar trains. It was another great model introduced in the outstanding year of 1952, which is covered in detail in Lionel Trains of the 1950s, a special interest publication from Classic Toy Trains. Over the past few years on Trains.com, I’ve been suggesting […]

20th Century Limited

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Fleet fillers: The postwar Lionel No. 25000 two-bay hopper

There’s never been a shortage of large industrial structures for three-rail layouts. Many of them could have been coal-powered. You need not go broke buying high-dollar hoppers or high-side gondolas to carry the rivers of black diamonds needed to keep commerce humming. Back in the postwar days Lionel made a wide variety of scale and […]

The General

An ornate, old-fashioned black-and-red 4-4-0 steam locomotive smokes on a wood trestle

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The Virginia City embodies the legacy of Beebe and Clegg

I’ve never been in the market for a private railroad car — editors and writers rarely ascend to that rarified air — but if I was, I’d compose an email this very moment and send it to the equipment broker Ozark Mountain Railcar, there to bid on what might be the ultimate PV: heavyweight sleeper-observation […]