Accurail HO scale 36-foot double-sheathed boxcar kit The one-piece plastic carbody features well-defined molded detail, including the seams on the steel roof and the corrugations on the steel ends. Separate plastic parts include a see-through brake platform and a running board with simulated wood grain. As the 40-foot steel boxcar was in the steam-to-diesel transition […]
Menards HO scale Red Owl grocery store The back of the Menards Red Owl store is just as detailed as the front Price: $69.99 plus shipping (free shipping to local Menards store) Manufacturer Menards 5106 Menard Dr. Eau Claire, WI 54703 www.menards.com Era: 1955 to 1988 Comments: Home-improvement chain Menards entered the HO scale structure […]
HO scale locomotives Alco RS-32 and RS-36 diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. RS-32: Central Vermont (one road number) and Lamoille Valley (one number). RS-36: Apache Ry. (American Revolution Bicentennial, three numbers); Livonia, Avon & Lakeville (one number); National Railways of Mexico (two numbers); Ontario Central (one number); and Norfolk & Western (two numbers). New numbers. […]
BUCYRUS, Ohio — A federal judge has ruled that municipalities in Ohio can no longer cite railroads for blocking crossings. The decision came after CSX Transportation sued the City of Defiance arguing it did not have to pay city fines, the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum reports. Judge James J. Carr of the United States District Court of […]
Chessie System-painted C&O No. 8272 poses in Building 10 at GE Transportation’s Lawrence Park, Pa., shops for a reunion picture with GE workers who were on site when the B30-7 locomotive was built — in 1980. Greg McDonnell LAWRENCE PARK, Pa. — It wasn’t supposed to happen. When the CSX shop in Huntingdon, W. Va., […]
Led by ex-Santa Fe No. 2428, a trio of Southwestern GP30s is serviced at Deming, N.M., prior to a run to Hurley, N.M. Major mechanical work on Southwestern Railroad’s Whitewater Division is performed in the small open-air shop at Hurley. Art Miller The large GP30 fleet assembled by The Western Group is living on borrowed […]
The test train stops at Wichita to allow dignitaries off and on. About 200 people gathered to greet the train, including local newspaper and TV media. Mike Martin WICHITA, Kan. – Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer extension test train brought crowds trackside along the Oklahoma City to Kansas City route on Friday. The train ran from the […]
No. 905 rolls through Glendora on the Pasadena Subdivision on Saturday. Jon Waide LOS ANGELES – The long-awaited Metrolink F125 locomotives made their main line debut over the weekend on test runs over the Metrolink Pasadena Subdivision. No. 905 was spotted testing in Glendora on Saturday. The locomotives, built by Progress Rail in Muncie, Ind., […]
Two Navajo locomotives roll west on NS train No. 309 on Saturday. Michael D. Harding FARMINGTON, N.M. – Two new diesel locomotives are en route to the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. coal mine railroad in northwestern New Mexico this week. The General Electric ET44AC locomotives, which are lettered for the company and carry Nos. 2026 […]
Reading & Northern F7 No. 251, still carrying New York, Ontario & Western colors applied by former owner Southern Railroad of New Jersey, rests at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., June 9, 2017, with mate No. 250. Two photos, Scott A. Hartley PORT CLINTON, Pa. – With all that is happening on Pennsylvania regional railroad Reading & […]
A new SNCF “inOUI” train set. SNCF PARIS – Almost 36 years after it launched the TGV, Train a Grande Vitesse or “high speed train,” brand of high speed rail, French national carrier SNCF has announced that the name will be history by 2020. In its place will be inOUI, a re-branding effort aimed at […]
Norfolk Southern crane No. 514892MW displays its Ohio Locomotive Crane heritage at Lawrenceburg, Ky., in August 2011. Thomas E. Hoffmann ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota-based IPS Cranes has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire American & Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. of Bucyrus, Ohio. IPS will provide customers with a greater range of services that […]
