HAPPY HOLIDAYS THE LCCA WAY: The Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA) has announced a limited-edition Christmas car made by Lionel. The commemorative O gauge model is a no. 6464-style boxcar with die-cast metal trucks and couplers and festive Christmas 2015 decorations. Only 550 cars will be produced. The car costs $69.99 plus $10 shipping […]
O gauge Alco Legacy FA A-A by Lionel Price: $749.99 (no. 81516 A-A set) Min Curve: O-36 Cmd Low: 2.38 smph Conv Low: 2.71 smph, High: 72.7 smph, Drawbar Pull: 1 lb., 9 oz. Features: Powered and unpowered units each with a fan-driven smoke unit, can-style motors, coil couplers on noses, Lionel’s Legacy command and […]
O gauge RailKing PRR L1-class 2-8-2 from MTH Price: $449.95 (no. 30-1641-1) Min Curve: O-31 Cmd Low: 2.1 smph Conv Low: 3.2 smph, High: 68 smph, Drawbar Pull: 1 lb 8 oz. Features: O-31 die-cast metal construction, MTH’s ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system, smoke unit, coil coupler Current production road names: Pennsylvania RR cab […]
Fox Valley Models HO GP60M and GP60B diesel locomotives Dressed up in the warbonnet livery of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., Fox Valley Models’ GP60M and GP60B model unique ATSF prototypes. Both HO scale locomotives are available with ESU LokSound dual-mode decoders for realistic sound effects on direct-current and Digital Command Control layouts. […]
Broadway Limited HO scale RF-16 diesel locomotive With their angled noses and canted sides, these locomotives aren’t your typical cab units. Broadway Limited Imports’ new Baldwin RF-16 Sharks cut a different path in the locomotive pool. Thanks to the company’s Paragon2 sound decoder, the rumble of Baldwin’s 608A turbocharged 1,600-horsepower 8 cylinder engine emanates from […]
Walthers HO scale Capitol Limited kitchen and diner cars The Baltimore & Ohio’s Capitol Limited of the 1950s is Walthers’ newest name train. It has a 10-car streamlined consist, including eight newly tooled cars, pulled by Electro-Motive Division E9A-E8Bm-E9A locomotives. This kitchen-dormitory-dining car set is one of the train’s new signature cars. The prototype. The […]
Athearn HO scale Bethlehem Steel F89FH flatcar with Whitehead & Kales bi-level Auto-Pack Price: $49.98 Manufacturer Athearn Trains 1600 Forbes Way, Ste. 120 Long Beach, CA 90810 www.athearn.com Era: 1960s to 1980s Road names: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Illinois Central; Norfolk & Western (BTTX and TTBX reporting marks); New York Central; St. Louis-San Francisco; and […]
Rapido Trains HO scale Alco/Montreal Locomotive Works FA-2 and FPA-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Alco/Montreal Locomotive Works FA-2 and FPA-2 diesel locomotives. FA-2: Baltimore & Ohio (three road numbers), Canadian National (as-delivered scheme with original and new nose heralds, two numbers each), Canadian Pacific (block and script lettering, three numbers each), Erie Lackawanna (three […]
GE AC44CW No. 256 displays the Seaboard Coast Line logo ahead of the cab. Curtis Brown JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation will recognize its rich history with commemorative predecessor logos applied to locomotives beginning this year. Last week, photos from the railroad’s Waycross, Ga., locomotive shops showed freshly painted GE AC44CW No. 256 displaying a […]
Claremont & Concord workers clear switches at Claremont Junction in March 2008. Thomas Mik CLAREMONT, N.H. – One of New England’s independent shortline railroads is about to become part of the Genesee & Wyoming empire. G&W subsidiary New England Central filed notice with the Surface Transportation Board last week that it had reached an agreement […]
Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief No. 3 splits the semaphores at East Watrous at Milepost 750 in January 2013. Chase Gunnoe WATROUS, N.M. – A section of the BNSF Railway-owned Raton Subdivision received signal upgrades in late July, replacing a section of historic early 20th century Santa Fe semaphore signals. Raton Pass, along the railroad’s Raton […]
Officials cut a red ribbon Thursday to mark the opening of the new Wylie terminal earlier in the month. Two photos, Kansas City Southern DALLAS – Two decades after Kansas City Southern purchased several Santa Fe lines in North Texas, KCS, on Thursday, dedicated a new intermodal terminal in Wylie. The facility, located in the […]
