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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page 3D Track Plans take designs found in the pages of Model Railroader magazine and explores them in depth. This episode looks at Perry Amicangelo’s design for his HO scale Coloma, Wisconsin 9 x 13 foot layout. […]
WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Canadian Pacific has put its 58 EMD SD9043MACs up for sale. Built between 1998 and 2000, the 4,300 hp locomotives are available for sale, lease, or lease with buyout option. The locomotive were never popular with CP and often in storage in recent years. Of the 58, four were overhauled and are […]
Two high-horsepower GE locomotives approach Elm Grove, Wis., with eastbound Canadian Pacific coke train 852. The train is descending the subcontinental divide. (Water west of the divide flows into the Mississippi River, while water east of the divide flows into Lake Michigan.) Photo by Matt Van Hattem […]
Westbound Canadian Pacific train No. 813, led by AC4400CW 8543, exits the west portal of Mount Shaughnessy Tunnel in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, on June 9, 2007. This coal train is bound for Roberts Bank in Vancouver, B.C. Mark Jackson photo […]
Looking out the window of Canadian National SD70M-2 No. 8016, a Canadian Pacific transfer train on X-Track (left) waits for light power at Symington Yard in Winnipeg, Man., on Oct. 23, 2007. A. Ross Harrison photo […]
To our family, the ultimate train was not the Broadway, the 20th Century, or the exalted Dominion that plied our home Canadian Pacific rails out of Toronto. For us, the train was CPR’s nameless workaday No. 25, leaving daily at 10:30 (reading as 9:30 in the days when timetables were printed in Standard Time regardless […]
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An Amtrak special move, with private car Ohio River at the back, rolls along Canadian Pacific’s former Delaware & Hudson main line on Sept. 4, 2009. The train is on its way from Albany, N.Y., to Railfest 2009 in Scranton, Pa. Jim Conroy photo […]
A window in Thrums By Steven Duff Thrums is a name that somehow resonates above most others, a name, as we say these days, that has Attitude. It is a Scottish word, immortalized in Sir James Barrie’s novel, A Window in Thrums, and is perpetuated in Canada by a small town in British Columbia. In […]
CALGARY, Alberta – On Nov. 11, Canadian Pacific will remember those who served Canada and the United States with a Veterans Day (called Remembrance Day in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom) ceremony at its Calgary headquarters. The ceremony will pay tribute to those who fought in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, […]
A CN intermodal hotshot heads east on the Dundas Subdivision at Bayview Junction in Hamilton, Ontario, on July 2, 1989. Howard Ande For a first-hand look at Canada’s major railways, there are few places better than Bayview Junction in Hamilton, Ontario, where two of Canadian National’s busiest lines converge at a wye. Canadian Pacific comes […]
A westbound Canadian Pacific freight curves along the Mississippi River at Maple Springs, Minn. Matt Van Hattem The Canadian Pacific Railway operates a network of 13,600 route miles that stretches across Canada from Montreal to Vancouver, with lines reaching south into Chicago and the major population centers of the northeast U.S. In between its lines […]
