Walthers HO scale Budd 21-roomette sleeper The Pennsylvania RR’s streamlined Broadway Limited is the latest name passenger train released by Walthers. The first car in the series is this well-detailed HO scale Budd 21-roomette sleeper. The prototype. Inaugurated in 1912, the Broadway Limited was the premier passenger train of the Pennsylvania RR. Running between New […]
Eastern trip, April 20–26 PC No. 66, Chicago–Cincinnati, April 20 PC E7 4211 (ex-PRR), PRR B60 baggage car, PC coach 2926 (ex-PRR) N&W No. 4, Pocahontas, Cincinnati–Roanoke, April 20–21 N&W GP9’s 508/501, 4 head-end cars, coach 532, dome coach 1610, sleeper Buchanan County; diner 493 added at Williamson, W.Va. (train left Roanoke with GP9’s 519/517, […]
Amtrak train 301, a Seattle-Eugene, Ore., Cascades Service train, kicks up snow as it zips through East Olympia, Wash., on Nov. 23, 2010. F59PH No. 468 is pulling the distinctive Talgo equipment that serves passengers in the corridor. Jeffrey T. Schultz photo […]
ZURICH, Switzerland — The engineer that was operating the Glacier Express when it crashed last summer has been convicted of negligence and homicide, Swiss Info has reported. One Japanese tourist died in the crash and 40 were injured. Investigators say the crash occurred at a point where the line’s speed limit jumps from 22 mph […]
WASHINGTON — In late February, the Transportation Security Administration took over the Amtrak station in Savannah, Ga., and thoroughly searched every person who entered. None of the passengers got into trouble, but the TSA certainly did — big time. Amtrak Police Chief John O’Connor said he first thought a blog posting about the incident was […]
Although the quarters were likely close in this passenger rail car’s public bathroom, the extra sink could only have helped. Q While visiting The Durham Museum in Omaha, I saw a passenger car with two sinks in the public bathroom, one large and one small. What was the small sink used for?– Sam Irvin, Summerfield, Fla. […]
Q Did railroads that used Pullman service have their own sleeper and parlor cars too, or were one or the other used exclusively on any particular train? Also, how were contracts structured: Did Pullman pay the railroads for space on the trains and garner all the fares, or did the railroads pay for the service […]
Walthers HO scale American Car Foundry Union Pacific dome cars These three dome cars complete the Walthers series of excellent HO scale Union Pacific Streamliner passenger cars. All three models come assembled and ready-to-run with their grab irons and handrails installed. The UP was the last Western railroad to buy dome cars, which served on […]
Watch video clips of Pacific Electric Red Cars in action at Dominguez Junction and other locations on the Los Angeles–Long Beach line. Footage is from the DVD program Pacific Electric: Remembering the Red Cars, Vol. 1, available from Transit Gloria Mundi. […]
Watch video clips of Pacific Electric Red Cars in action at Dominguez Junction and other locations on the Los Angeles–Long Beach line. Footage is from the DVD program Pacific Electric: Remembering the Red Cars, Vol. 1, available from Transit Gloria Mundi. […]
Micro-Trains Line Co. N scale Pullman 12-1 heavyweight sleeper Price: $22.70 ManufacturerMicro-Trains Line Co.P.O. Box 1200Talent, OR 97540 www.micro-trains.com Era: 1925 to 1970s Comments: In the mid-1920s, the Pullman Co. built hundreds of 12-section, 1-drawing-room sleeping cars, some of which lasted in maintenance-of-way service into the 1970s. An N scale replica of Red Oak, one […]
We ran the 1935 Twin Cities Hiawatha on our Milwaukee, Racine, and Troy club layout. This HO scale model from Fox Valley Models includes the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific (Milwaukee Road) locomotive and passenger cars. We installed a Train Control Systems DP5 Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder in the locomotive. You can read […]
