Norfolk Southern GP59 No. 4610, the railroad’s original heritage unit, sits at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga for Railfest 2011 on Sept. 3. The locomotive has since been repainted. Photo by Bradley Bates […]
Original heritage
Type of Train: Diesel Locomotives
Erie revival
Norfolk Southern SD70ACe No. 1068, the Erie-painted heritage unit, leads train No. 301 from Decatur, Ill., to St. Louis, Mo. on Feb. 12, 2014. The train is seen at Stonington, Ill., on the former Wabash main line. Photo by Bruce Bird […]
Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Switching the Winston-Salem Southbound
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Work on our Winston-Salem Southbound HO scale layout is complete. Now it’s time to try running it like the real thing! Once the paperwork is order, David Popp walks first-time operator Jenny Maaske through a typical switching sequence. Along the way, David explains […]
Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Switching the Winston-Salem Southbound
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Work on our Winston-Salem Southbound HO scale layout is complete. Now it’s time to try running it like the real thing! Once the paperwork is order, David Popp walks first-time operator Jenny Maaske through a typical switching sequence. Along the way, David explains […]
PAs on the Pony Express
An Alco PA/PB/PB consist leads the Union Pacific’s Pony Express across the desert near Victorville, Calif., in the early 1950s. The railroad’s 14 PAs and PBs were assigned to passenger service in the West. Donald Sims photo […]
Photo of the Day
Rock Island TA diesel Electro-Motive Corp.’s model TA passenger diesel of 1937 was a lighter, less powerful counterpart to the builder’s EA of the same year. Although they shared the same styling, the single-engine, 1,200 h.p., B-B TA was a derivative of EMC’s power cars for streamlined trains, while the twin-engine, 1,800 h.p., A1A-A1A EA […]
MTH RailKing Alco RS-3 diesel locomotive
Watch MTH’s RailKing O gauge Rock Island Alco RS-3 diesel locomotive in action, and then read a complete review of the model in the December 2020 issue of Classic Toy Trains magazine! […]
MTH RailKing Alco RS-3 diesel locomotive
Watch MTH’s RailKing O gauge Rock Island Alco RS-3 diesel locomotive in action, and then read a complete review of the model in the December 2020 issue of Classic Toy Trains magazine! […]
Lionel’s Kansas City Southern Legacy SD70 ACe
O GAUGE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN LEGACY SD70ACE NO. 4006 BY LIONEL Price: $599.99 Stock no.: 20333330) Features: O-36 operation, two can-style motors, two remote couplers, smoke unit, Legacy sound system, Legacy Command Control for operation in conventional, TrainMaster, RailSounds, or using the LionChief Universal Remote or the Bluetooth LionChief app Low speed (Cmd): 2.2 scale […]
River runby
A serene day on the Iowa River is interrupted by Train ICSW-09. More information on The Hills Line at http://thehillsline.com. […]
CN heritage locomotives sighted, but company won’t comment
Three Canadian National locomotives have been repainted into heritage paint schemes, and more are reportedly on the way. Photographs circulating on the internet show locomotives painted in Grand Trunk blue and red; the red, white, and blue BC Rail paint scheme; and the black Illinois Central scheme known to railfans as the “death star” design. […]
News Photo: Wabash unit reborn
A Wabash Alco C424 in Pennsylvania in 2020? Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad No. 2409 was built by Alco in 1964, part of a cancelled order of seven units for the National Railways of Mexico.Wabash purchased the units soon before the road was leased by Norfolk & Western. It worked for N&W until the late 1970s, when it […]
