Montana, Wyoming & Southern 2-8-0 No. 12 poses for a photo as it switches a caboose. The tall-stacked, well-kept Consolidation joined the railroad’s roster in 1924. W. H. Bunney photo […]
Montana shortline Consolidation
Section: Photos
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: The Soo Line through Central Wisconsin
While Canadian National serves Waupaca, Wis., today, on David Leider’s HO layout the Soo Line is still going strong in the central Wisconsin community. Here, Soo 2-8-0 no. 474, one of two class F-10 locomotives on the roster, spots a Baltimore & Ohio wagontop boxcar at a local industry. David Popp took the photo. Model […]
GN “Mountain”-series observation car
In 1951 Great Northern received from ACF six remarkable observation-lounge cars to re-equip the Empire Builder. Named for mountains along the train’s route, the cars featured extra-deep windows for better scenery-viewing. GN photo […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Union Pacific mail train at Sherman Hill
A Union Pacific mail train, with 4-8-4 no. 842 on the point, hustles through Dale Junction. The four Harriman head-end cars are resin kits from Southern Car & Foundry, and the UP diner is a brass model by Soho. The HO scale scene is on Mike Brock’s UP Sherman Hill layout. Mike, of Merritt […]
Diesel and steam on the L&N
Louisville & Nashville RS3 150 passes “Big Emma” 2-8-4 1980 at Baileys, Ky., in July 1954. The Berkshire will couple to the rear of the RS3’s freight for the climb over Emanuel Hill. W. A. Akin Jr. photo […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Milk train through farm country
The cows are in the pasture, the sun is shining, and there’s not a cloud in the sky – it’s a gorgeous morning in rural New England. The crew aboard this Boston & Maine train is taking in all of nature’s glory from the cab of F7A no. 4265, seen here pulling a milk train […]
Class A power
A massive Norfolk & Western class A 2-6-6-4 dwarfs workers in the road’s yard at Roanoke, Va., in 1954. W. A. Akin Jr. photo […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Wooden trestles on the Monida & Yellowstone
Spectacular wooden trestles are numerous on the Monida & Yellowstone. George Hall caught an M&Y two-truck Shay bringing a short train over the trestle near South Fork on Claude and Cindy Leglise’s 1:22.5-proportion garden railroad. The freelanced railroad was featured in the June 2004 issue of Model Railroader. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features […]
Boston PCC train
In Boston, a two-car train of Metropolitan Transportation Authority PCC cars rounds the loop at Riverside in 1963. G. Mac Sebree photo […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: Boeing Employees’ Model Railroad Club layout
Seattle & North Coast GP7 no. 717, still in the colors of its previous owner, leads a string of recently painted ore cars past the mine at Marmot. The scene is on the Boeing Employees’ Model Railroad Club HO scale layout in Kent, Wash. Timothy Repp of Renton, Wash., took the photo. Introducing Model Railroader‘s […]
Big engine with a little number on a little road
Lehigh & Hudson River 4-8-2 No. 11 was one of three such engines built by Baldwin in 1944 for the 90-mile road. Because of wartime restrictions, they were duplicates of a batch of Boston & Maine engines delivered in 1941. Classic Trains coll. […]
Model Railroader Photo of the Day: the diesel shop at Cajon Pass
An assortment of Electro-Motive Division and Alco locomotives waits between assignments at the diesel shop in Barstow, Calif. It appears that a few Santa Fe employees are interested in taking a closer look at the EMD SD45 demonstrator in the foreground. Bill Pearce of Wichita, Kan., photographed the scene on his N scale Cajon Pass […]
