This PBS Tracks Ahead segment visits The O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Va., which maintains a collection of the nighttime railroad photographs captured by the late O. Winston Link. […]
Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – The O. Winston Link Museum
Train Topic: History
Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – The O. Winston Link Museum
This PBS Tracks Ahead segment visits The O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Va., which maintains a collection of the nighttime railroad photographs captured by the late O. Winston Link. […]
‘19 west, copy 4, Plains’
Three NP F units lead a 12-car train 2, the Mainstreeter, through Plains, Mont., in summer 1964. The depot’s train-order signal projects above the third unit, while a mail pouch is ready to be snagged by No. 2’s RPO. Bruce Butler In the summer of 1964 I had just about the best summer job that […]
Electro-Motive’s F Units
Watch excerpts from F Units in Action, a VHS program released by Kalmbach Publishing Co. in 2000. […]
Electro-Motive’s F Units
Watch excerpts from F Units in Action, a VHS program released by Kalmbach Publishing Co. in 2000. […]
Book Review: 72-82: Western Pacific’s Final Decade
72-82: Western Pacific’s Final Decade by Ted Benson, Dick Dorn, Dale Sanders, Dave Stanley White River Productions, P.O. Box 48 Bucklin, MO 64631; 240 pages, hardcover, 12.25 x 9.25 inches; $79.95 www.whiteriverproductions.com North American railroading wasn’t always dominated by super-sized Class I railroads and a smattering of so-called regionals and short lines. Not that long […]
The Roundhouse: Episode 22
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this “single-stall” edition of The Roundhouse, host Hal Miller welcomes Model Railroader magazine contributing editor Tony Koester to the table to chat about this friend, pioneering model railroader Allen McClelland, and his multiple Virginian & Ohio HO scale layouts. Although Allen no […]
The Roundhouse: Episode 22
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this “single-stall” edition of The Roundhouse, host Hal Miller welcomes Model Railroader magazine contributing editor Tony Koester to the table to chat about this friend, pioneering model railroader Allen McClelland, and his multiple Virginian & Ohio HO scale layouts. Although Allen no […]
History According to Hediger: Interlocking insights
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader magazine’s senior editor Jim Hediger returns to the MRVP studio! In this episode, he first explains how a real plant works, before describing how former MR editors Paul Larson and Gordon Odegard engineered a model for use on an HO scale […]
History According to Hediger: Interlocking insights
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Model Railroader magazine’s senior editor Jim Hediger returns to the MRVP studio! In this episode, he first explains how a real plant works, before describing how former MR editors Paul Larson and Gordon Odegard engineered a model for use on an HO scale […]
On creating the world’s largest fusee
Union Pacific’s City of Denver curves away from North Western Station in Chicago at the start of its run west. Sister streamliner City of Portland once made an unscheduled stop at Oak Park, 9 miles west. Wallace W. Abbey In spring 1955, I was working as a ticket clerk at Chicago & North Western’s Oak […]
Author, historian Jim Scribbins dies NEWSWIRE
Trains collection MILWAUKEE– Jim Scribbins, the career Milwaukee Road employee who became his company’s unofficial historian as well as a prolific railroad author and photographer, died Thanksgiving Day, November 27, at home in West Bend after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86. Born in 1928, Scribbins dedicated a substantial part of his […]
