CSX Transportation train Q389-08 brings west the last of Amtrak’s F40PHR locomotives and a lone P40. Amtrak’s Delaware shops sold the units to Larry’s Truck Electric earlier in the year, the sale marked the last of the F40s on Amtrak as well as the first P40 to go to a third party for scrap. Stephan […]
Watch as we take the ScaleTrains.com N scale General Electric C39-8 diesel locomotive for a test run on our Canadian Canyons project layout. The N scale model includes an ESU LokSound decoder with realistic diesel engine, horn, bell, and other sound effects. […]
Watch as we take the ScaleTrains.com N scale General Electric C39-8 diesel locomotive for a test run on our Canadian Canyons project layout. The N scale model includes an ESU LokSound decoder with realistic diesel engine, horn, bell, and other sound effects. […]
CSX SD70ACe-T4 No. 8908 shows off its fresh paint. Erik Landrum CINCINNATI – Delivery of CSX Transportation’s first SD70ACe-T4 locomotives began last week when nine of the 10-unit order was shipped from Progress Rail’s Muncie, Ind., plant. Norfolk Southern delivered the nine units from Muncie to Cincinnati where they were interchanged to CSX. The order, […]
GN 400 crosses the French River near Duluth, Minn., on the North Shore Scenic Railroad. Steve Glischinski DILWORTH, Minn. – Great Northern Railway SD45 No. 400, the “Hustle Muscle” diesel, will appear at the annual convention of the Great Northern Railway Historical Society this month. The locomotive, currently at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in […]
What better way to celebrate the festivities around the Fourth of July then by taking a look at a truly presidential locomotive? Members of the Model Railroader staff had a chance to take a close look at the new N scale Electro-Motive Diesel from Broadway Limited Imports. This new Paragon3 series model is decorated for […]
The WNY&P Driftwood Turn prepares to leave Driftwood, Pa., with a hopper train ultimately bound for Turtle Point. Despite being based in Olean, N.Y., the majority of the income for the railroad is in Pennsylvania. Stephan M. Koenig The northbound Emporium Turn reaches Gardeau Road just south of Keating Summit. The train will make its […]
In a 2007 photo, Tom Fawell poses in his Chicagoland studio with his painting of Southern Railway GP38-2’s —running long hood forward, of course Gregory Palumbo CHICAGO — Tom Fawell, the Chicago artist who dazzled a generation with his rakish artwork depicting Electro-Motive Division diesel locomotives on the move, has died at age 90 in […]
LAMY, N.M. — Santa Fe Southern Railway rarely operates anymore, but on June 27, 2019, more than 200 people visiting Santa Fe from the University of Iowa chartered the four-car train from Santa Fe to Lamy. The train departed the Santa Fe Railyard on time at 5:15 p.m. for its 18.3-mile journey to Lamy. Unfortunately, […]
Rafael Santana, Wabtec President and CEO Wabtec/GE Transportation WILMERDING, Pa. — Wabtec Corp. today announced Rafael Santana will become president and CEO of the company, effective July 1. Santana, who will also become a Wabtec board member, will succeed Ray Betler, who will retire as a Wabtec executive and board member. Santana, 47, joined Wabtec […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale Fairbanks-Morse H-15-44 and H-16-44 diesel locomotives HO scale locomotives Fairbanks-Morse H-15-44 and H-16-44 diesel locomotives. New paint schemes. H-15-44: Rock Island (red and silver). H-16-44: Central RR Co. of New Jersey (blue and yellow); New York Central (black and white with radio stencil); and New York, New Haven & […]
The five operable MLWs on the WNY&P meet together in Emporium PA, as the Driftwood turn meets the Emporium turn to pick up a crew May 30. Scenes like these have been common on the WNY&P for many years and will soon come to an end later this year with the arrival of the AC46CWs. […]
