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Athearn Trains HO scale Electro-Motive Division GP50 diesel locomotives HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP50 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Chicago & North Western; and Southern Ry. Four road numbers each. Factory-installed wire grab irons, prototype-specific details, and McHenry knuckle couplers. Direct-current model, $189.98; with SoundTraxx Digital Command Control sound decoder, $289.98. September […]
Norfolk Southern did an amazing thing in 2012 and they’re doing it again in 2013: Running steam-powered passenger trains to better tell the railroad story and as a point of pride for this amazing eastern railroad that just turned 30 years old. Take a closer look at Southern Railway Consolidation No. 630 and Nickel Plate […]
HERITAGE GOES RAILKING: The wildly popular Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage series of retro paint schemes joining the RailKing line. The Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe is an Imperial line locomotive featuring road names NS applied to this prototype body. The fallen flags include Erie, Illinois Terminal, Jersey Central, Lackawanna (shown above), Penn Central, Reading, Savannah & Atlanta, […]
Louisville & Nashville freight 864 from Norton, Va., to Corbin, Ky., meets Southern First 88, a coal turn from Andover to Yuma, Va., on the wye at Appalachia on May 23, 1969. Although wyes are commonplace on prototype railroads, they can be challenging to model. Ron Flanary A “wye” describes an area where three turnouts […]
The railroaders’ mantra has always been “hurry up and wait” and this CSX crew at Glendale, Ohio, in suburban Cincinnati is living up to their creed. This portion of the former Baltimore & Ohio Toledo to Cincinnati route is paired with the Norfolk Southern New Castle District in directional running; most trains passing Glendale are […]
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – An industrial branch in South Bend serving Notre Dame University is being scrapped by its owner, Norfolk Southern, reports the South Bend Tribune. The city of South Bend hopes to convert it to a trail. The 3.7 mile line was originally part of a New York Central main line between South Bend […]
FULL SCREEN Davidson Ward A Deutsche Bahn intercity train whizzes past a steel boardwalk in Natur-Park Südgelände. FULL SCREEN Davidson Ward Tracks disappear into the forest, with a well-groomed hiking trail solidly established between the rails. FULL SCREEN Davidson Ward Here you can clearly see the delineation of path and nature, as bound by two […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale Alco C-424 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Alco C-424 and C-425 diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. C-424 Phase II: Erie Mining (one road number); Springfield Terminal (Guilford scheme); and Toledo, Peoria & Western (two numbers). C-424 Phase III: Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Morristown & Erie (two numbers). C-425 […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division F7 diesel locomotive. New paint scheme: Great Northern (Big Sky Blue). Five-pole skew-wound motor with flywheels, prototype-specific details, and McHenry knuckle couplers. A unit only (freight): Direct-current model, $169.98; with SoundTraxx Digital Command Control sound decoder, $269.98. A-B set (freight or passenger): DC model, $309.98; with SoundTraxx DCC sound decoder, […]
Two Norfolk Southern GP38-2s idle in pre-drawn murkiness at Conrail’s Livernois Yard in Detroit on May 18, 2012. Photo by Matt Van Hattem […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP15-1 diesel locomotive. New paint scheme: Burlington Northern (1991 scheme). Three numbers each. Five-pole skew-wound motor and dual flywheels, see-through etched-metal details, and McHenry scale magnetic knuckle couplers. Direct-current model, $189.98; with SoundTraxx Digital Command Control sound decoder, $289.98. March 2013. Genesis series. Athearn Trains, 310-763-7140, www.athearn.com Electro-Motive Division SD70M-2 […]
Norfolk Southern GP18 No. 1 switches in the Chocowinity, N.C., yard, preparing a train for the Texas Gulf phosphate plant on Oct. 28, 1973. Photo by William J. Husa Jr. […]
