An NJ Transit crewman directs a passenger to a boarding location for a northbound Northeast Corridor train at Princeton Junction, N.J., on Aug. 6, 2019. The transit agency is adding to training to help employees deal with potentially dangerous situations. TRAINS: David Lassen NEWARK, N.J. — Responding to an increasing number of physical assaults on […]
Watch as we put this HO scale Electro-Motive Division GP7 diesel locomotive to work on the Model Railroader staff layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. This Atlas Classic series locomotive is factory-equipped with an ESU LokSound Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. Check out the realistic effects in this locomotive demo. […]
USA Trains holiday locomotive USA Trains Christmas Refrigerator Car Accucraft London and North Eastern Railway Class B1 4-6-0 Accucraft Sabrina Engines & rolling stock USA Trains, PO Box 100, Malden MA 02148, offers Christmas-themed items: The “Santa Express Railroad” GP38-2 diesel locomotive (R22234, $559.95) and two versions of a 2019 Christmas Refrigerator Car (R13037), $119.95; […]
BALTIMORE – Just in time for Halloween, the B&O Railroad Museum has received its own sweet treat in the form of a Domino Sugar Co. Plymouth diesel locomotive. The 1950 Plymouth, a 35-ton model MDT, was known as “Sweet Toot.” Since 1992, it switched the Domino Sugar refinery near the Inner Harbor almost daily. A […]
Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder passes the Metra Milwaukee North line station in Lake Forest, Ill., on June 2, 2019. Lake Forest’s former city manager has been indicted as a result of his efforts to bring an Amtrak stop to the community. TRAINS: David Lassen LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The former city manager of Lake Forest […]
Penn Station in 1957 was recreated on a former Lunar Module assembly plant on Long Island for Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Motherless Brooklyn,” combining both live action and visual effects. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures In a scene set in the recreated Penn Station, director and star Edward Norton, as Lionel Essrog, eyes production director Beth […]
Crews are at work re-building a washed out bridge near Kansas City, Mo. Norfolk Southern website BRUNSWICK, Mo. — Norfolk Southern’s Grand River bridge between Kansas City and Moberly, Mo., will reopen for train service tonight, Oct. 28. “NS Engineering is completing the final repairs today and service across the bridge will be restored.” NS […]
This elevated portion of San Diego’s Mid-Coast Trolley extension will carry the line over Interstate 5 and through La Jolla, Calif. The ballpark at lower left is the home of UC San Diego baseball; two stations on the extension will serve UCSD. San Diego Association of Governments A map of the Mid-Coast Trolley project. San […]
PETALUMA, Calif. — Service today on Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit has been cancelled as a result of power shutdowns in the commuter railroad’s service area by Pacific Gas & Electric. The shutdown disables traffic signals on city streets which cross SMART tracks. Once power is restored, those signals must be synchronized with grade systems. The […]
Freshly repainted SW600 No. 1280 leads Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad’s Pizza Train at Earl, Wis., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. The locomotive was repainted to its as-delivered scheme as a surprise for a Chicago & North Western Railroad Historical Society regional meet. Steve Smedley Paint and photographs were part of the work to restore Chicago […]
Kato USA HO scale Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue and yellow warbonnet) and Burlington Northern (as-delivered scheme). Two road numbers per scheme. Factory-installed Digital Command Control motor and light decoder, handrails, grab irons, and number boards; directional golden-white light-emitting-diode headlights; and […]
In tow behind Clinchfield F7 No. 800 near New Haven, 2-8-4 No. 2719 makes its way to restoration in Ravenna in July 2019. Kevin Gilliam WILLIAMS, Ariz. – Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., the organization restoring Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716 to operation, is the 2019 winner of the Trains Magazine annual Preservation Award, the […]
