Accurail HO combination-door boxcar kit Cody reviewed a two-pack that included two Accurail boxcars decorated for Northern Pacific. Price: Single car, $17.98; two-pack (one Metallic Brown, one pre-Burlington Northern merger green), $34.98 Manufacturer Accurail P.O. Box 278 Elburn, IL 60119 www.accurail.com Era: 1959 to early 1980s (as decorated) Comments: Accurail has released an HO scale […]
Micro-Trains Line N scale 50-foot PS boxcars Each Micro-Trains boxcar includes a detailed underframe with accurately positioned brake components. With more than 50,000 built over the course of nearly two decades, Pullman-Standard’s 50-foot steel boxcar has been a common sight on North American rails for half a century. Micro-Trains Line Co. is offering late-production models […]
No. 905 rolls through Glendora, Calif., on the Pasadena Subdivision in June. Jon Waide LOS ANGELES — Some Metrolink riders can say that they rode on the cleanest fuel-powered locomotive in the country as Metrolink’s new Tier 4 locomotive makes its debut in passenger service this week. The first of 40 locomotives rolled into service […]
CSX Transportation’s North Baltimore Yard, near North Baltimore, Ohio. Brian Schmidt JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is preparing to scale back operations at its intermodal hub in North Baltimore, Ohio, which opened in 2011 as the $175-million centerpiece of a new intermodal strategy. The Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal was designed to support CSX’s hub-and-spoke approach […]
A simple map showing Canadian Pacific’s new service to Ohio. Canadian Pacific CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific is extending the reach of its international intermodal service into the Ohio Valley through a partnership with a pair of Genesee & Wyoming regional railroads. The Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad and the Indiana & Ohio Railway […]
Sunray, Texas Google Maps SUNRAY, Texas — A new bulk transload facility is open for business in Texas’ panhandle near Sunray. TNW Corp., whose companies include the Texas Northwestern Railway and other transportation and logistics operations, recently opened the transload site about 50 miles north of Amarillo. The facility specializes in the transport of bulk […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale General Electric U33B and U36B diesel locomotives HO scale locomotives General Electric U33B and U36B diesel locomotives. U33B: Penn Central, Reading & Northern (two road numbers), and Rock Island (maroon and yellow). U36B: Auto Train and Seaboard Coast Line (American Revolution Bicentennial scheme in one number and yellow and […]
MONTREAL, Quebec — Canadian National has begun taking delivery of 22 new ES44ACs from General Electric. The locomotives are built at GE’s Fort Worth plant and shipped to CN in Memphis, Tenn., by BNSF Railway. From there, CN is moving them north across the border for service primarily in western Canada. These locomotives meet only […]
The new Rochester, N.Y., Amtrak station opened Friday, Oct. 6. Jacob Adams ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The state of New York and Amtrak opened the new Rochester train station shortly after Noon on Friday, Oct. 6, just in time for college students and others leaving town for the long Columbus Day weekend. The airy new station […]
Dan Dover, associate editor of Extra 2200 South, The Locomotive Newsmagazine, and railfan photographer, died from a heart attack on Sept. 5, 2017. He was 64. In 1961 Jerry Pinkepank founded Extra 2200 South (the name comes from Jerry’s street address, according to Don Dover, who succeeded Pinkepank as editor.) It was dedicated to covering […]
Crude oil loads from the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota roll through St. Albans, W.Va., enroute to Yorktown, Va., in April 2014. Chase Gunnoe WASHINGTON — A Transportation Research Board committee on Oct. 5 reported that results were “inconclusive” in a year-long study of the effectiveness of electronically controlled pneumatic brakes to reduce the risk […]
ORO GRANDE, Calif. — A man killed when taking train photos earlier this week has been identified, according to a newspaper report. The Victor Valley News reports that officials have identified the victim as Teddy Domingo, 57, of Honolulu. The newspaper’s report says Domingo was standing on one of the mainline tracks taking photos of […]
