For Trains editors, the story of 2019 is — and has to be — the return of a Big Boy. Yes, we mean Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 — a speedy 700-tons of steel and steam when fully fueled and ready to go. Despite being out of service since the time Dwight Eisenhower was President, […]
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Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 2: Wabtec’s big year NEWSWIRE
Without question, 2019 has been Wabtec’s year to shine. It has been, for starters, the 150th anniversary year for the company that George Westinghouse founded with his invention of the automatic air brake. Despite competition in making the practical safety devices today, air brakes are used on virtually every freight and passenger car, and locomotive […]
Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 3: Commemorative locomotives blossom NEWSWIRE
A relief crew has just boarded Canadian Pacific Railway No. 7015, leading a deadhead business train bound for Kansas City at Marquette, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 2019. The 7015 is one of 60 SD70ACUs being rebuilt by Progress Rail in Kentucky, using the railroad’s stored SD9043MACs. Ten of the rebuilds will wear the heritage scheme. […]
Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 4: Big main lines, short lines swapping ownership NEWSWIRE
Central Maine & Quebec’s Job 1 rolls west at Magog, Quebec, with AC44CWs, Nos. 1002 and 1006, and GP38-3 No. 3812 in June 2018. Canadian Pacific has agreed to buy the short line, giving the railroad direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. Frank Jolin In 2018, Trains editors forecasted that CSX Transportation would continue spinning […]
Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 5: Norfolk Southern executive F units put up for sale NEWSWIRE
Norfolk Southern No. 4271 leads the three other F-units at Knoxville, Tenn., in November 2011 as a Southern Railway 2-8-0 stands by. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn In our lifetimes, Norfolk Southern has been a belle of nostalgic railroading typified by a matching black-and-white set of EMD built F units often arranged in A-B-B-A formation and looking […]
Unions, BNSF Railway spar over employee medical records and information NEWSWIRE
CHICAGO — Ten unions representing more than 30,000 employees have filed a federal lawsuit against BNSF Railway charging that the railroad’s demand for certain medical records is a violation of their rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The suit is in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. The […]
Trains News Wire’s Top 10 stories of 2019 Video NEWSWIRE
Watch Trains Editor Jim Wrinn and Digital Editor Steve Sweeney take on the Top Ten stories of 2019. Are you surprised? Disappointed? Let us know in the comments below. […]
Atlas N scale NJ Transit commuter train
Atlas N scale ALP-45DP locomotive performance charts Atlas N scale NJ Transit commuter train The trailer cars feature full interiors, with toilet and cab details where appropriate. Couplers are truck-mounted except at the cab end of the cab car. The cab car has operating headlight, ditch lights, and marker lights. N Scale fans of modern […]
WalthersProto HO scale EMD SD9 diesel
WalthersProto HO scale EMD SD9 An HO scale General Motors Electro-Motive Division SD9 diesel is back on HO scale rails thanks to Wm. K. Walthers Inc. Part of the WalthersProto series, the model is accurately detailed and decorated for several road names. We reviewed an earlier release of the model in the December 2012 issue. […]
Rapido Trains HO Gunderson Husky-Stack
Rapido Trains HO Gunderson Husky-Stack The well has sockets for pins for one long or two short containers. Rapido Trains has released an HO scale Gunderson 53-foot Husky-Stack well car, with etched-metal running boards, new trucks, and factory-installed grab irons. The die-cast metal cars are accurately finished and include two individually numbered 53-foot containers. In […]
Tangent Scale Models HO PS-3 hopper
Tangent Scale Models HO scale PS-3 hopper This close-up view of the “B” end shows the many fine details applied to Tangent’s 2750 three-bay hopper. Tangent Scale Models has released its HO scale Pullman-Standard PS-3 2,750-cubic-foot-capacity three-bay hopper in seven new paint schemes. The injection-molded plastic HO scale car features prototype-specific unloading door mechanisms, handbrake […]
CP Holiday Train raises almost $1.5 million, more than 230,000 pounds of food NEWSWIRE
Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train raised more than $1.49 million (Canadian) and collected more than 238,000 pounds of food during its 2019 tour, the railroad says. Dan Kittay CALGARY — Canadian Pacific’s Holiday train raised more than C$1.49 million and collected 238,393 pounds of food during its 21st annual tour, the railroad announced. The figures are […]
