SEATTLE — Amtrak has begun maintaining and repairing locomotives at a recently opened, $32 million service station in Seattle, just south of King Street Station. The 330-foot-long, 55-foot-high repair shop will work on locomotives used on Amtrak’s Cascades service, the Empire Builder, and Coast Starlight, as well as locomotives used on Sound Transit’s Sounder commuter […]
CALGARY – Canadian Pacific will be painting 10 of its newly rebuilt SD70ACU locomotives into its historic tuscan red, gray, and gold paint scheme. On Monday morning, CP shared an image on social media of the two freshly painted locomotives, Nos. 7010 and 7015, with the message, “We take pride in our past and look […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD70M diesel locomotive. CSX (dark blue and yellow with boxcar herald in two road numbers), Norfolk Southern (Thoroughbred scheme with Positive Train Control antennas and primer gray, both with flared radiators in three numbers each), Progress Rail (CSX patchout, three numbers), Southern Pacific (as-delivered scheme, four numbers), and Union Pacific […]
There’s more to modeling an Electro-Motive Division (EMD) SD40T-2 tunnel motor than simply repositioning the air intakes on an SD40-2. The meticulously detailed ScaleTrains.com HO scale SD40T-2, part of the firm’s top-of-the-line Rivet Counter series, provides an exclamation point to that statement. The model is dimensionally accurate and available in several roadname- and roadnumber-specific versions. […]
Burlington Northern GP9 No. 1868, formerly Northern Pacific No. 245, is at Staples, Minn., on Sept. 4, 1989. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Railroad Museum is acquiring a high-hood former Northern Pacific GP9 in trade for a former Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range diesel. Independent Locomotive Service GP9 No. 1382, at the […]
Dale Gauwitz CHICAGO – The first SD70ACe-T4 locomotives from a planned Tier 4 lease fleet have emerged from Progress Rail’s Muncie, Ind., plant. EMDX No. 7204 was spotted in the Chicago area recently, painted in a new yellow, white and black scheme with Progress Rail and EMD logos and lettering. This locomotive is moving to […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP7u diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue-and-yellow warbonnet, five road numbers); Bangor & Aroostook (gray, red, and black scheme, four numbers); Cargill (green and white, one number); Integrated Grain & Milling (red, white, and yellow, one number); Morristown & Erie (Bangor & Aroostook patchout and red and black […]
The Design Your City campers stand behind their finished modules at Milwaukee’s Discovery World along with World’s Greatest Hobby president Stacey Walthers Naffah (far right). The campers built model railroad structure kits to represent the businesses, residences, and industries of their HO scale neighborhood. Stacey Walthers-Naffah, president of the World’s Greatest Hobby organization, helps a […]
Tyler Hardin with one of the three commemorative units he’s designed for CSX. Chris Anderson An early front porch drawing by Tyler Hardin. Hardin family collection HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Sitting in the darkness at a picnic table under a shed at CSX’s Huntington Heavy Repair shop, Tyler Hardin’s face lights up when he recalls where […]
Q: I recently visited the Foster Townsend facility by the river in St. Louis and was informed that it is now part of Metro East Industries. Can you confirm? — John Foster, Gloucester, England A: Upon checking with railfans familiar with St. Louis, they confirmed that the shops you visited are leased out to Metro […]
CSX is upgrading 25 SD70ACs at Huntington, W.Va. Chris Anderson HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — CSX’s fleet of aging SD70AC locomotives has mostly sat stored for the last several years, but a new upgrade program could see the diesels return to the road for years to come. CSX’s Huntington Heavy Repair shop in West Virginia is reworking […]
ScaleTrains.com HO scale General Electric Tier 4 GEVo diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Electric Tier 4 GEVo diesel locomotive. Canadian National (with Aboriginal Affairs logo in three road numbers, 100th anniversary scheme with Aboriginal Affairs logo in one number) and Kansas City Southern (Southern Belle scheme in six numbers). Prototype-specific details, directional light-emitting-diode headlights, […]
