An Alco PA diesel and Berkshire 2-8-4 diesel meet on Tony Koester’s HO scale Nickel Plate Road model train layout. This timeline will help you choose an era for your model railroad. Tony Koester 1950: Dieselization. Ten Class 1 railroads had already dieselized before this year, including the Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay; Chicago, Indianapolis […]
Union Pacific C44AC-CTE No. 5374 leads a mixed-freight train past Milepost 366.7 past wind turbine generators on its way to Monolith, Calif., on April 25, 2011. William Steck photo […]
RENO, Nev. — At 11:19 a.m. Pacific Time Friday, a tractor-trailer gravel truck traveling at a high rate of speed on U.S. 95 at Ocala, Nev., about 70 miles east of Reno, barreled into the side of the westbound California Zephyr. The truck struck the left-hand side of the Zephyr behind the two locomotives and […]
Bachmann Trains HO scale Electro-Motive GP9 diesel locomotive A smooth dual-flywheel mechanism and a dual-mode Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder highlight this new HO scale GP9 diesel from Bachmann. The four-axle locomotive model performed well during direct-current (DC) and DCC tests, and pulled a respectable number of freight cars on our Milwaukee, Racine & Troy […]
ExactRail LLC HO scale 64-foot refrigerator car A contemporary 64-foot mechanical refrigerator car is now available as a well-detailed injection-molded plastic model. This latest HO scale freight car from ExactRail is based on a prototype built by TrinityRail. The full-size “TRINCool” reefers are commonly seen in 55-car unit trains on Union Pacific (UP) and CSX. […]
Blackstone Models HO scale Denver & Rio Grande Western class C-19 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive HO scale locomotives Denver & Rio Grande Western class C-19 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive. HOn3. Available with Royal Gorge Route herald (green or black boiler jackets), Flying Grande lettering, and modified “bumblebee” paint scheme as used in the movie Denver […]
When seeking the cause of a train wreck, investigators sketch out relevant details, such as the starting and ending points of a derailment, the relative position of derailed and standing cars and locomotives, and the surrounding terrain. As a railroad surveyor with Farnsworth Group’s Railroad Services, I provide drawings and descriptions of wrecks, like the […]
Kato N scale City of Los Angeles I watched the sleek yellow Kato City of Los Angeles snake through the desert scenery of our N scale Salt Lake Route layout. A great thing about N scale is that you can run full-length name passenger trains on a modest-size layout. A great thing about this Kato […]
The activity level of this track belies its once important status as part of D&RGW’s Tennessee Pass. Michael Humphreys Q In December 2010, I noticed a little-used rail line running through Eagle, Colo. What can you tell me about it? The mainline rail dated from the 1950s. — Michael Humphreys, Berryville, Va. A The tracks […]
MTH Electric Trains HO scale General Electric bipolar The General Electric bipolar 1B+D+D+1B is the latest heavy electric locomotive modeled by MTH in HO scale. Like the firm’s EP-4 and EF-4 “Little Joe” electrics, this HO bipolar has an array of sound effects and metal pantographs that raise and lower automatically or by remote control. […]
Atlas HO scale 73-foot center-beam bulkhead flatcar Price: $46.95 (undecorated, $39.95) ManufacturerAtlas Model Railroad Co.378 Florence Ave.Hillside, NJ 07205www.atlasrr.com Era: 1986 to present Comments: A center-beam bulkhead flatcar based on a Gunderson prototype is now available from Atlas. The full-size flatcar, designed for carrying building products, was introduced in 1986 and is still in production […]
ExactRail HO scale 100-ton auto parts car Here’s another contemporary high-capacity HO scale high-cube boxcar that captures the look and tall proportions of a Pullman-Standard 7315 waffle-side boxcar used to transport heavy automobile parts. It’s a recent addition to ExactRail’s Platinum line, and it comes ready-to-run with scale-size magnetic knuckle couplers. It’s also the first […]
