An aerial view of the new transload site, at left, adjacent to U.S. Silica’s Rochelle operation. City of Rochelle ROCHELLE, Ill. – The City of Rochelle has opened a new transload center and rail bridge for the city’s railroad and industrial park. The Rochelle Transload Center the new bridge were part of a celebration the […]
Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 pulls the North Pole Express at St. Paul Union Depot on Dec. 9, 2018. Steve Glischinski ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Friends of the 261, owners and operators of Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261, put tickets on sale Sept. 15 for its annual “North Pole Express” at St. Paul Union […]
This overall view shows cars off both sides of the tracks at the Interstate 5 bridge near DuPont, Wash., in December 2017. Steve Carter SEATTLE — A federal-court jury in Tacoma, Wash., has awarded $16.75 million in damages to two of the victims and the spouse of one of them for injuries sustained in the […]
Kids Wish Network wish recipient Jeremiah McCain is shown on the radio while in the cab of EMD diesel at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum. Kids Wish Network CALERA, Ala. — It was “All aboard!” for Jeremiah McCain and 25 of his closest family and friends during his wish at the Heart of Dixie […]
LS&I 22 will be housed in a building to be dedicated Saturday at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. DRS NORTH FREEDOM, Wis. — Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad No. 22, a 1910 Alco (Pittsburgh) 2-8-0, has been cosmetically restored and is on display in the new Laurence Dorcy Building at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. A gift from Dorcy, […]
ORBISONIA, Pa. — The first East Broad Top Railroad photo event in nearly a decade will offer afternoon and evening shots of a 1918 steam locomotive on the EBT turntable and of the Pennsylvania narrow-gauge railroad’s 1927 gas-electric unit in multiple locations around the Rockhill Furnace yard. Antique vehicles and costumed crew members will be […]
New York Air Brake’s test train. New York Air Brake ATLANTA — One independent railroad professional sees New York Air Brake’s recent automation break through as an incremental step to fully automated railroading. Gary Wolf, principal at Wolf Railway Consulting, tells Trains that New York Air Brake’s Friday announcement that it started a stopped freight […]
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — Officials of truckload and intermodal carrier Schneider National believe Precision Scheduled Railroading can aid their intermodal growth, and are not worried about Walmart and Amazon interacting directly with railroads instead of using intermodal marketing companies like Schneider. Despite a relatively flat intermodal market, Schneider CEO Mark Rourke told the recent 7th […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD70M diesel locomotive. CSX (dark blue and yellow with boxcar herald in two road numbers), Norfolk Southern (Thoroughbred scheme with Positive Train Control antennas and primer gray, both with flared radiators in three numbers each), Progress Rail (CSX patchout, three numbers), Southern Pacific (as-delivered scheme, four numbers), and Union Pacific […]
Bachmann On30 0-6-0 steam locomotive Whether it’s logging, mining, or in-plant switching, all private narrow-gauge railroads have one thing in common – they need a reliable locomotive to move their rolling stock. Bachmann’s latest addition to its Spectrum line of On30 steam locomotives is a home-grown 0-6-0 tender-style switcher. The ready-to-run model comes with a […]
There’s more to modeling an Electro-Motive Division (EMD) SD40T-2 tunnel motor than simply repositioning the air intakes on an SD40-2. The meticulously detailed ScaleTrains.com HO scale SD40T-2, part of the firm’s top-of-the-line Rivet Counter series, provides an exclamation point to that statement. The model is dimensionally accurate and available in several roadname- and roadnumber-specific versions. […]
Kato N scale Viewliner II baggage car If you like to keep up with the cutting edge of rail passenger equipment, Kato has a deal for N scale modelers. Viewliner II baggage cars are now on hobby shop shelves, hot on the heels of their recently delivered prototypes. The prototype: The Viewliner II is the […]
