Patrick J. Ottensmeyer, Kansas City Southern CEO Trains: David Lassen NEW YORK — Kansas City Southern has ordered 50 new locomotives for delivery next year in anticipation of continued traffic growth, CEO Patrick Ottensmeyer told an investor conference on Wednesday. “We actually just placed an order for some locomotives that will be delivered early next […]
GE Transportation Wabtec Corp. NEW YORK — Wabtec executives were excited about joining two companies with a rich engineering heritage and a combined 250 years of experience in railroading. “This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Wabtec CEO Raymond Betler told investors and analysts on a conference call on Monday morning. “This is an ideal combination.” […]
New GE locomotives test near the company’s Fort Worth, Texas, factory in 2016. GE Transportation is becoming part of Wabtec in a deal announced today. TRAINS: David Lassen WILMERDING, Pa. and CHICAGO — Wabtec and GE Transportation are combining, according to a statement released at 7 a.m. Eastern time today, creating what Wabtec says will […]
Boston & Maine No. 77, one of two Pan Am heritage units, leads a freight train near Shawmut, Maine, in January 2013. Justin Franz HEBER CITY, Utah — The Heber Valley Railroad has purchased three former Boston & Maine GP9s from Pan Am Railways. Heber Valley Chief Mechanical Officer Michael Manwiller tells Trains News Wire […]
Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Chesapeake & Ohio class J3a 4-8-4 Greenbrier steam locomotive HO scale locomotives Chesapeake & Ohio class J3a 4-8-4 Greenbrier steam locomotive. “The Greenbrier Presidential Express” (one road number), in-service version (with smoke deflectors in one number, without in four numbers), and excursion service (Chesapeake & Ohio, Chessie System Railroads, and […]
Rapido Trains HO Budd Rail Diesel Car The car that revived branchline passenger operations for many railroads after World War II stands ready to do the same for HO scale railroads. Rapido Trains has released a highly accurate model of the Budd Rail Diesel Car, or RDC, in three body styles. Available equipped with an […]
Atlas HO scale AEM-7 electric locomotive The AEM-7 may have been retired by Amtrak, but Atlas has brought back its HO model, with a new Electronic Solutions Ulm LokSound Select dual-mode decoder, for another run. Since Model Railroader last reviewed this model in the March 2000 issue, sound-equipped locomotives have proliferated. Bringing the model back […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD45T-2 diesel locomotive. National Railway Equipment (Southern Pacific speed and Roman lettering patchouts and painted light gray with red lettering in one road number each), Montana Rail Link (fictional paint scheme, three numbers), Southern Ry. of British Columbia (fictional paint scheme, one number), St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt, American Revolution […]
CN SD60Fs meet train 393 as they move eastward at Aldershot West, Burlington, Ont., on May 5, 2006. Greg McDonnell Q I recently saw Canadian National Railway diesel No. 5553 switching a cut of cars in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was unable to determine who built this locomotive. It had six axles and no running […]
A Siemens Charger locomotive leads a northbound Amtrak Hiawatha into Milwaukee. Altamont Corridor Express has become the latest agency to order Chargers. TRAINS: David Lassen STOCKTON, Calif. — The San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission has ordered four Siemens Charger locomotives for use on the Altamont Corridor Express commuter service. The first of the locomotives, to […]
John Flann developed a novel car-forwarding system for his Clark Fork RR that used playing cards. He wrote about the system in Great Model Railroads and Model Railroad Planning. John Flann, a noted British and North American model railroader, died in March. A native of England, John was an award-winning modeler and author. When he […]
Rapido Trains HO scale Alco/Montreal Locomotive Works FA-2 and FPA-2 diesel locomotives HO scale locomotives Alco/Montreal Locomotive Works FA-2 and FPA-2 diesel locomotives. FA-2: Ann Arbor (delivery scheme); Burlington Northern (Spokane, Portland & Seattle patchout); Chicago & North Western (yellow and green); CP Rail (Action Red with Multimark); Erie Lackawanna (gray and maroon); Long Island […]
