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IN THE 1960s, WHAT WOULD YOU CALL A LOCOMOTIVE THAT SOLD MORE THAN 1,200 COPIES TO 21 RAILROADS? A SUCCESS! In 1965 the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors fielded the first SD45, a monster with a 20-cylinder, 3,600-horsepower 645E3 diesel engine, and it proved to be a popular choice. The model also spawned variants, including […]
THE PRINCESS CORONATION CLASS OF 4-6-2 PACIFICS that was fielded by the London, Midland & Scottish (LMS) Railway is one of the most admired types of British steam power. Built at the LMS works in Crewe, the locomotives were designed for high-speed express passenger trains. The locomotives actually had four cylinders, and they featured 81-inch […]
MTH HO scale Dreyfuss Hudson steam locomotive This streamlined New York Central J3a Hudson accurately models the art deco curves of its famous prototype. The MTH HO scale “Dreyfuss” Hudson features realistic sound and smoke effects and operates on DC, Digital Command Control (DCC), and MTH Digital Command System (DCS) layouts. Prototype. In 1938 the […]
THE SANTA FE WAS ONE RAILROAD THAT DID PASSENGER SERVICE RIGHT, all the way to the end of private passenger train operations. An interesting side angle to the story is that the Santa Fe developed a group of railroaders that knew a thing or two about running fast trains between Chicago and the Pacific Coast. […]
LIKE THE PEACEFUL ELOI BEING DRAWN TO THE UNDERGROUND TEMPLE OF THE MORLOCKS in the H.G. Wells’ classic novel, The Time Machine, so do hundreds of thousands of people descend into the dim, man-made caverns of New York City. They are fired through the dark, rolling along in chariots of steel through narrow passages only […]
MTH Electric Trains HO scale SD70ACe diesel locomotive Remotely opening couplers set this HO scale SD70ACe from MTH Electric Trains apart from other recent locomotive models. This is a feature that hasn’t before been seen on a ready-to-run HO locomotive. The MTH SD70ACe also has many realistic sound effects and operates on DC, Digital Command […]
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF POWER COMPANY COAL TRAINS, there are only two firms that pop to my mind as having business-specific unit trains – fast freighters operated for United Parcel Service and Tropicana. And while a UPS train contains trailers with thousands of individual packages, the Tropicana Juice Train carries just one commodity: orange juice. […]
SWITCHERS HAVE AN ESSENTIAL PLACE IN PROTOTYPE RAILROADING and a venerable spot in model railroading. Switchers are used to move cars, build freight trains, and even make short freight hops and deliveries. The Electro-Motive Division’s MP15 series of 1,500-horsepower switchers (built 1974-87) is a mainstay of modern yard power. More than 400 units were built […]
M.T.H. HO scale 4-12-2 steam locomotive An HO model of the world’s largest rigid-wheelbase locomotive is available from M.T.H. Electric Trains. The HO 4-12-2 has realistic sounds and smoke that make it a lot of fun to operate, especially on a Digital Command Control (DCC) or M.T.H. Digital Command System layout. And the engine can […]
ON THE CUSP OF ALCO’S DECLINING YEARS, the Schenectady, N.Y. locomotive builder fielded the 1,800 horsepower RS-11 as a replacement in the catalog for its popular RS-3 (and its cousins). The new Alco locomotive could be purchased in low- or high-hood versions and was suitable for both freight and passenger operations. Its natural target was […]