The Bachmann Trains HO scale heavyweight passengers cars include flush-fitting windows and LED overhead interior lighting. A new body shell and other details highlight Bachmann’s recently released HO scale heavyweight passenger cars. The company has offered heavyweight passenger cars in the past, but these models, a coach and a passenger/baggage combine, feature finer rivet detail, […]
Visitor Peter Diamond runs the simulator. Joseph M. Calisi NEW YORK – Always wanted to operate a subway train? Here is your chance. Subway fans now have the opportunity to operate a first-of-its-kind subway simulator. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has created a realistic train simulator experience that the average railfan can now enjoy. The simulator […]
The northbound ‘Silver Star’ pauses for passengers at Tampa in January 2015. Brian Schmidt WASHINGTON – Amtrak will now sell sleeping car accommodations on its Silver Star between New York and Miami without included dining car meals. Traditionally, Amtrak has bundled the cost of dining car meals into its charge for the sleeping car. Under […]
No. 144, a Dash 9-P42B, leads Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief on an early April evening in 2011 at Baca, N.M., over BNSF Railway tracks. Recent talks in New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado secured funding for upkeep of the Chicago to Los Angeles passenger train’s route. Steven M. Welch ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Amtrak says its Southwest […]
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A Metra train in west suburban Hinsdale. Brian Schmidt CHICAGO – A budget proposal by Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner would cut state aid for Chicago transit by $170 million, the Chicago Tribune reports. The hardest hit would be commuter rail operator Metra with a $20.8 million decrease in state funding, a decrease of about 60 […]
For his second day in the Denver area, host Drew Halverson explores more of the Front Range, before returning to other railroad sites in the Mile-High City. Drew also joins pal Mike Danneman for stops at the recently-renovated Denver Union Station and an extra special ride on the Colorado Railroad Museum’s K-37 steam locomotive. […]
For his second day in the Denver area, host Drew Halverson explores more of the Front Range, before returning to other railroad sites in the Mile-High City. Drew also joins pal Mike Danneman for stops at the recently-renovated Denver Union Station and an extra special ride on the Colorado Railroad Museum’s K-37 steam locomotive. […]
Kato N scale Union Pacific excursion train Complementing the Kato FEF-3, this N scale passenger set models some of the crown jewels of Union Pacific’s current excursion and business train fleet. The models are decorated to reflect the prototype’s present-day appearance. The set includes power car no. 207, crew sleeper no. 202 Willie James, museum […]
Walthers HO scale Santa Fe 24-duplex-roomette sleeper Price: $79.98 Manufacturer Wm. K. Walthers Inc. P.O. Box 3039 Milwaukee, WI 53201 www.walthers.com Era: 1954 to 1963 Road name: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Comments: This lightweight sleeping car is the most recent addition to Walthers’ HO scale Santa Fe San Francisco Chief. The model represents […]
The Rock Island used a variety of diesel power on its Chicago suburban trains, but Alco RS3s predominated. In 1966, maroon RS3 499 has just departed La Salle Street Station with three cars. Duane Darnell photo […]
A special train made of new Amtrak Viewliner baggage cars departs Elmira, N.Y., on Wednesday. The cars are bound for Florida for acceptance inspections. Don Jilson ELMIRA, N.Y. – Eighteen new Amtrak baggage cars are moving Wednesday from the CAF USA plant near Elmira to Amtrak’s Hialeah maintenance facility near Miami for final inspections before […]
