HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP18 diesel locomotive. Baltimore & Ohio (blue and yellow, one road number), Illinois Central (black and white), Norfolk & Western (black and white), Burlington Northern (Cascade Green and black in three numbers, Northern Pacific patchout in one number), Nickel Plate Road (black and yellow), and Northern Pacific (black and yellow). […]
CHICAGO – Metra has released Boise-built MP36PH-3S locomotive No. 402 in a special paint scheme honoring the state of Illinois and the six counties that the agency provides commuter rail service in. Our video shows the locomotive on a shake-down run on train MX03 from Chicago to Joliet following its release from overhaul. The train […]
Work continues on former Milwaukee Road E9A No. 32A by the Friends of the 261. Friends of the 261 The Wabash Valley Railroad Museum is saving this New York Central boxcar built in 1922 and rebuilt in 1939, and seeks donations to offset the costs of its move. Wabash Valley Railroad Museum While the COVID-19 […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale Electro-Motive Division SD24 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD24 and SD26 diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. SD24 (low short hood unless otherwise noted): Burlington Northern (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy patchout with high short hood), Southern Pacific (scarlet and gray, three road numbers), and Union Pacific (Armour Yellow […]
Although I’m really an HO scale modeler at heart, I’ve always been intrigued with N scale trains and have more than once thought how neat it would be to “have a few.” Being without any other outlet for modeling, those very thoughts soon translated into construction of the Havaphew Central, my first N scale layout. […]
HO scale freight cars American Car & Foundry two-bay Center Flow covered hopper. New paint schemes: BNSF Ry. (gray with black circle-cross herald, five road numbers) and Cemex Mexico (gray with reporting marks only). New road numbers: Burlington Northern (Cascade Green with large herald), Chicago & North Western (yellow), CSX (tan), Norfolk & Western (gray), […]
The ScaleTrains.com HO scale C39-8 diesel locomotive comes equipped with an ESU LokSound 5 Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. See and hear it in action! […]
The ScaleTrains.com HO scale C39-8 diesel locomotive comes equipped with an ESU LokSound 5 Digital Command Control (DCC) decoder. See and hear it in action! […]
SD39 No. 4007 works freight on the Santa Fe at Las Cruces, N.Mex., in 1970. Only 59 of this 12-cylinder, turbocharged model were built for the Santa Fe; Illinois Terminal; Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern; and Southern Pacific. Chris Raught photo […]
A New York Central switcher pulls a string of loaded open-rack cars in the early 1960s. The auto rack car, introduced in 1960, quickly became popular and regained finished-auto traffic for railroads. J. David Ingles collection […]
Santa Fe requested the custom U30CG from General Electric, offering 3,000 hp and a steam generator in a distinctive cowl body considered more aesthetically suitable for passenger service than a road-switcher. The railroad carried six such units on its roster, Nos. 8000–8005, which went into freight service following the 1971 transfer of passenger service to […]
Missouri-Kansas-Texas MP15AC No. 58 is a 1980 product of EMD. The locomotive’s model designates the use of an alternator and rectifiers instead of the traditional generator to produce D.C. power for the traction motors. Other major U.S. buyers included Long Island Rail Road, Louisville & Nashville, Milwaukee Road, Seaboard Coast Line, and Southern Pacific. Lee […]
