A Northern Pacific A-5 4-8-4 northern with grey boiler pulls a freight drag over Chumstick Canyon trestle east of Seattle, Wash., on the Great Northern railway. Video by Sam Parfitt. […]
Northern Pacific A-5 4-8-4 crossing Chumstick Canyon trestle
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Northern Pacific A-5 4-8-4 crossing Chumstick Canyon trestle
A Northern Pacific A-5 4-8-4 northern with grey boiler pulls a freight drag over Chumstick Canyon trestle east of Seattle, Wash., on the Great Northern railway. Video by Sam Parfitt. […]
Springfield (Illinois) Terminal map
1920s-era map of the Springfield Terminal Railway, a coal-hauling short line northeast of Springfield, Ill., covered in Spring 2017 Classic Trains. […]
MTH HO scale New York City subway cars
MTH HO scale New York City subway cars The MTH model includes working headlight, marker lights, and local and express indicators. The lead car in the four-car set is powered and houses the Digital Command System and Proto-Sound 3.0 electronics. The unpowered cars have a rudimentary interior and overhead lighting. Next stop, Dyer Avenue! You […]
Bachmann HO scale SoundValue USRA light 4-6-2 Pacific
Bachmann HO scale SoundValue USRA light 4-6-2 Pacific The HO scale model features many separate detail parts, including wire handrails and metal running gear. A SoundTraxx decoder and speaker are in the tender. A passenger workhorse of the steam era joins Bachmann Trains’ HO scale SoundValue lineup with this United States Railway Administration (USRA) light […]
WalthersProto HO scale PRR BM70n RPO-baggage car
WalthersProto HO scale PRR BR70n RPO baggage car The car has a detailed interior made of several plastic moldings. Contacts at one end of the car provide electrical pickup for interior lighting (sold separately). Fully-fledged post offices on wheels, Railway Post Office cars used to be called the most profitable cars in a railroad’s fleet. […]
Poling on railroads
A Canadian National worker moves a car using a pole on the pilot of CN No. 6310 in 1958. Gordon B. Mott, Louis A. Marre collection Q When did railroads stop using poling pockets seen at all four corners of freight cars and engines? – John Bronn, Eagle, Alaska A Poling was the once common […]
Quick Look: Atlas N scale Norfolk Southern gondola
Atlas N scale Norfolk Southern gondola Price: Single car, $25.95; three-pack, $77.95; six-pack, $155.70 Manufacturer Atlas Model Railroad Co. 378 Florence Ave. Hillside, NJ 07205 www.atlasrr.com Era: June 1993 to present (as decorated) Road names: Norfolk Southern (with yellow conspicuity stripes, test roller bearings stencil, MW scrap tie loading stencil, and 263K GRL 1993 scheme […]
Origins of the Oroville Dam
OROVILLE, Calif. — Observers are watching for what will happen next with the Oroville Dam, one of the largest earthen dams in North America. Few know that the dam is also a great railroad story, one that was captured on video in the 1960s and in the pages of Trains in January 1966. Download Donald […]
HOn30 Narrow Gauge Coal Mine Railroad
This HOn30 Narrow Gauge Coal Mine Railroad measures 24″ x 56″. The layout is constructed of 1″ thick extruded foam insulation board; there was no wood used anywhere. It is very light in weight. The locomotive is an old N scale Lifelike SW switcher for which I scratchbuilt a new cab to fit over the […]
HOn30 Narrow Gauge Coal Mine Railroad
This HOn30 Narrow Gauge Coal Mine Railroad measures 24″ x 56″. The layout is constructed of 1″ thick extruded foam insulation board; there was no wood used anywhere. It is very light in weight. The locomotive is an old N scale Lifelike SW switcher for which I scratchbuilt a new cab to fit over the […]
New model trains for the week of February 9, 2017
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division F45 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (“Kodachrome” scheme); Burlington Northern (Great Northern patchout); and Great Northern. Three road numbers per scheme. Road-number-specific details, Flexicoil-C truck sideframes with high brake cylinders, and 4,000-gallon fuel tank. Direct-current model with 8- and 9-pin connectors for Digital Command Control decoder, $179.98; with […]