Conrail 6070, a former Erie Lackawanna SD45, assists a westbound freight up Pennsylvania’s Horseshoe Curve on July 25, 1981, just a few months after removal of one of the Curve’s four tracks. Photo by Robert S. McGonigal […]
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Conrail 6070, a former Erie Lackawanna SD45, assists a westbound freight up Pennsylvania’s Horseshoe Curve on July 25, 1981, just a few months after removal of one of the Curve’s four tracks. Photo by Robert S. McGonigal […]
Only on a toy train layout, where the imaginations of modelers can soar to the greatest heights, will you see an SD80MAC road diesel (introduced in 1995) streaking around a triple-track main line bearing the Tuscan Red and gold stripes of the Pennsylvania RR. Why? Because O gauge enthusiasts, including Thomas Kaiser, have no problem […]
Army half-tracks are loaded onto flatcars at an unidentified location during World War II. This image is from the 1943 Office of War Information film Troop Train, a 10-minute short depicting the movement of an armored division to the West Coast. Photo by Classic Trains collection […]
Jumbo 100-ton covered hoppers revolutionized rail handling of grain in the 1960s. The Great Northern staged this publicity photo near terminal elevators in Minneapolis after receiving a new order of cars in 1967. Photo by Great Northern […]
PCC car 7352 passes the imposing York Road car house in June 1960; this and six other Baltimore barns were designed by E. Francis Baldwin, architect of many notable Baltimore & Ohio Railroad buildings. Photo by Linn H. Westcott […]
A Maine Central 2-8-0 leads a two-car local on Don Virtue’s HO scale Essex Junction & Monadnock RR. The model railroad is loosely based on the B&M’s Cheshire Branch in New Hampshire. Lou Sassi took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage and […]
Built in 1910 by Baldwin, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 1485 is one of 23 similar locomotives that operated into the 1950s. The railroad had 171 such locomotives built by Baldwin, and one built by the railroad itself. Photo by Harry Hall […]
While a few employees from Sutter’s Mill enjoy their mid-afternoon break outside, New York, New Haven & Hartford RS1 No. 0663 is hard at work pulling a string of boxcars. The scene is on Marshall Sommer’s HO scale Rhode Haven RR in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Lou Sassi took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the […]
A long section of the main line on Ken Baldwin’s S gauge railroad runs parallel to the river where folks enjoy swimming, rafting, and fishing. The Milwaukee Road 4-6-2 Pacific guiding a short passenger train east toward the small town served quite well by Clark’s Trading Post comes from the American Models product line (No. […]
Armstrong levers – so named because they took some arm strength to move – were used to throw turnouts and change signal indications. Especially in older installations, each lever had its own personality and required various amounts of finesse to operate. Photo by Union Switch & Signal […]
When fellow O gauge modeler Charles Stoia was photographing the 22 x 36-foot layout belonging to his friend Clem Krzeczkowski for Classic Toy Trains, he wasn’t sure whether juxtaposing some soldiers on maneuvers with two massive steam engines blasting by on the double-track main line made sense. After all, which war were the recruits preparing […]
With the sun just about to set, Fred Lagno of Queenstown, Md., snapped this shot of a Chesapeake & Ohio caboose bringing up the markers on a passing freight. Fred scratchbuilt the house. The caboose is a Walthers model. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad […]