Truss bridge for ga. 1 track American Made Steel Bridges 26374 Hernando Road Winter Haven FL 33884 Price: $210 Website: www.americanmadesteelbridges.com Stainless-steel truss bridge (#10048); made from 18-gauge sheet metal; welded construction; can be used alone or combined with other units to make a longer bridge. Dimensions: Length, 18″; width, 6″; height, 93/4″ (91/4″ clear) […]
Marc Horovitz 1:32 scale, gauge-1 hopper car AMS (Division of Accucraft Trains) 33260 Central Ave. Union City CA 94587 Price: $89.40 Website: www.accucraft.com 1:32 scale, gauge 1, three-bay hopper car; plastic body; metal trucks, fully sprung; operating scale knuckle couplers; blackened wheels; non-opening hopper doors; minimum radius, 48″. Dimensions: Length, 155/8″; width, 4″; height 45/8″. […]
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WASHINGTON — Raton Pass may lose the Southwest Chief. In a 16-slide Power Point presentation he delivered to Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico lawmakers on June 19, Amtrak President Richard Anderson talked about several ways that passenger train service would be cut for the famed mountain route. Sources familiar with the meeting say Anderson used […]
Coos Bay, Ore. Google Maps COOS BAY, Ore. — The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is asking the Surface Transportation board to permit an “in-house transaction” that would replace its current third-party short line operator with a new subsidiary under port control. That operator, Coos Bay Rail Link, is not willing to give up. […]
CSXT ET44AH No. 3440 with its new ‘Spirit of Ravenna’ logo on display during Franklin Park (Ill.) Days on June 8, 2018. Marshall W. Beecher RAVENNA, Ky. – In recognition of CSX Transportation’s recent partnership with the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., in Ravenna, Ky., the Class I railroad has placed a special Sprit of Ravenna […]
Work is progressing on Baldwin’s last steam locomotive for domestic use. Trains collection RIDGELEY, W.VA. – Diversified Rail Services, the contractor reassembling Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 for Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, on Friday reported more details about the efforts to restore the locomotive since it passed a hydrostatic test earlier this month. In […]
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE — Atlas Model Railroad Company, Inc., and Wm. K. Walthers, Inc. have reached an agreement under which Atlas will purchase all N scale locomotive and rolling stock tooling owned by Walthers, including the Walthers N tooling as well as former Life-Like tooling. Atlas will incorporate this tooling into its Atlas Master, Atlas […]
CHICAGO — Kansas City Southern announced its U.S. and Mexico rail subsidiaries will acquire a combined total of 50 new locomotives from GE Transportation to be delivered during 2019, as well as digital solutions to drive improved operational and fuel efficiency. With the North American rail market improving and freight volume up roughly 5 percent […]
Newly rebuilt Norfolk Southern AC44C6M No. 4005 leads an empty coal train through Natural Tunnel at Glenita, Va., after returning from its first revenue run since leaving Juniata Locomotive Shops in Altoona, Pa., in December 2016. Visitors will be able to walk over the Norfolk Southern right-of-way into Natural Tunnel in July. Tishia Boggs DUFFIELD, […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale General Electric Dash 8-40C and Dash 8-40CW diesel locomotives HO scale locomotives General Electric Dash 8-40C and Dash 8-40CW diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. Dash 8-40C (two road numbers each unless noted): Citicorp (Union Pacific patchout with CREX reporting marks), Kansas City Southern de Mexico (Southern Belle scheme), Lancaster […]
A view of containerships at the rail terminal in Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Port of Prince Rupert via Twitter PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – Canadian National will get another intermodal boost from the fast-growing Port of Prince Rupert, which on Tuesday announced a container port expansion that should be complete in 2022. The port […]
