Given a choice, railroads will always follow a straight, level path. Trains use less energy, speeds are higher, and there’s less wear on equipment when railroads can build on an arrow-straight line. But land rises and falls, obstacles must be avoided, and this requires grades to compensate for changes in elevation and curves to reorient […]
The best-selling early GE diesel locomotives are familiar to fans of mid-century diesel power. General Electric has a long relationship with railroad motive power. The company began building heavy electric locomotives in the 1890s, furnished traction motors and electrical equipment to other builders through the 1950s, and eventually become the dominant diesel-electric locomotive manufacturer […]
Housed in the historic Elmira Station, the Elmira Railway Museum offers a look at railroading on the Prince Edward Island in the early 1900s. Choices The museum features a re-created station master’s office and waiting room inside the station as well as displays and artifacts. A miniature train operates around the museum, and interactive experiences […]
Located in copper country, the MacBride Copperbelt Mining Museum is part of the overall MacBride Museum institution with a focus on the area’s mining and railroad history. Choices The museum’s exhibits provide a focus on the history of copper mining around the Whitehorse region, the Pueblo Mine Disaster, and an interpretive train ride. The train […]
The Cole Land Transportation Museum’s educational mission is to collect, preserve and display a cross-section of Maine’s land transportation equipment from which this and future generations will gain knowledge of the past. The overall collection includes 200 antique land transportation vehicles and 2,000 photographs. Choices The railroading side at the museum is represented by one […]
As a replica of the station that stood in Princeton for more than 70 years, the Princeton Railroad Museum shares the stories of the Virginian Railway and other rail-related history throughout the region. Choices The museum features exhibits full of artifacts and photographs surrounding the history of both the Virginian Railway and the Norfolk & […]
Along the scenic Narragansett Bay, the Grand Bellevue Rail Dining Experience operates several different excursions on the Newport & Narragansett Bay Railroad. Choices The Grand Bellevue is a relaxing 2.5-hour excursion that provides elegant dinner train services of full-course meals, wine and cocktails in restored 1940s Budd dining cars. Another excursion offering is a dining […]
What was your first byline in Trains? Dan Cupper: It was a 10-page cover feature for January 1984, detailing Conrail’s E8-model passenger locomotive No. 4022, used for powering the road’s office-car fleet on inspection tours. At the time, I was working as a reporter for the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News newspapers and had written a full-page […]
Union Pacific is in the final stage of modifying the paint scheme of its locomotive fleet. Announced in July 2022, company employees at Jenks Locomotive Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, created the new design which relocated the flag logo from the long hood to a smaller version placed on the side of the nose, […]
Ask Trains.com compilation May 2023 part one: In this painting-themed installment, Cody Grivno answers viewer questions on topics ranging from how to accurately paint a Central Florida CF7 as seen in the May 2023 Model Railroader, to where to find affordable locomotives and how to paint them, and more! Are you looking to learn more […]
Penn Central locomotives were varied from Alco and Baldwin to EMD and General Electric. There were electrics, too, on the Northeast Corridor and branches between New Haven, Conn., and Alexandria, Va. PC inherited its diesel and electric locomotives from components New York Central; and New York, New Haven & Hartford; and Pennsylvania Railroad. […]
WILLIAMS, Ariz. — As part of the 2023 steam schedule of operating the “First Saturday” excursions, Grand Canyon Railway and Hotel’s 2-8-2 No. 4960 was fired up for the special occasion. The former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad locomotive, with assistance from F40 diesel No. 4128, headed the railway’s round-trip excursion train from Williams to […]
