Westbound and eastbound Western Star streamliners meet along Whitefish Lake near Whitefish, Mont., in the 1950s. Great Northern photo […]
Mountain meet
Section: Photos
Classic Toy Trains Photo of the Day: Ed Berry’s O gauge layout
Ed Berry is just one of the many current layout builders who use a section or two of the O gauge layout they have recently finished as a way to display some of the die-cast metal vehicles they collect. On his three-rail display in Kinston, N.C., he specializes in miniature Corvettes, and so has arranged […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Coal trains at Blackwater Canyon
Coal is big business on the Allegheny & Lackawanna Southern. Contributing editor Lionel Strang photographed a pair of Alco C-424s bringing a loaded coal train up the 4 percent grade at Blackwater Canyon on his HO scale model railroad. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad […]
MoPac Northerns
Two 4-8-4s, Baldwin products of 1943, lead a westbound freight with a long string of open hoppers through Sandy Hook, Mo., about 19 miles west of Jefferson City on Missouri Pacific’s River Line. The railroad had 15 such locomotives, Nos. 2201–2215, and 25 more home-built examples, Nos. 2101–2125. C. T. Wood photo […]
Introducing Classic Toy Trains Photo of the Day
The guys holed up in the shack by the main line on David Brown’s O gauge layout caught a break today when the temperature climbed above the freezing mark. On a whim, they decided to set up their checkerboard outdoors for a few games before their fingers get numb or the noise of that passing […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Delancey Street engine terminal
Conrail’s Delancey Street engine terminal in Oak Island, N.J., is filled with locomotives being serviced and waiting for their next assignment. The terminal is a popular spot for railfans, and the railroad detective is checking to make sure these two men have permission to be on Conrail property. Lou Sassi took the photo on Matt […]
McCloud might
A McCloud River Railroad freight rolls thought Bartle, Calif., in July 1983. Lead unit No. 39 is the road’s sole SD38-2 while trailing unit 38 is the highest numbered of three SD38s. The logging and lumber road operated Baldwin diesels into the late 1960s. Jim Shaw photo […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: The industrial district of North Kansas City
Two Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) GP40s lead a freight through the industrial district of North Kansas City. Gary Hoover photographed the scene on Bill Wehmeier and Kurt Stroer’s HO scale MKT and Kansas City Southern-themed layout. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and excellence. […]
Labor intensive
Labor intensive Hundred-pound sacks of flour are stacked in a single-sheathed Rock Island boxcar at Minneapolis in 1939. The paper lining helps protect the bags. John Vachon, Library of Congress photo […]
Innovation ended
Hundreds of small towns had piggyback ramps through the 1960s, as seen here on the Minneapolis & St. Louis in 1959. However, moving one or two trailers at a time proved economically unviable. J. David Ingles collection […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: The freelanced Mokena Railroad
The freelanced Mokena Railroad is an Alco paradise. Here we see RS-3 no. 3 and RS-1 no. 1 leading a manifest freight on Hal Harrison’s N scale layout in Mesa, Ariz. Hal also took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and excellence. […]
Homemade muscle
Norfolk & Western Y6 2-8-8-2 No. 2130, one of the road’s distinctive homegrown designs, works near Elliston, Va., 20 miles west of the road’s headquarters in Roanoke. It was one of 35 such locomotives built 1936–40. W. A. Akin Jr. photo […]
