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On January 5th, the World’s Greatest Hobby on Tour kicks off its 2019 season. The show will visit 4 cities as follows: • January 5-6, 2019 – Schaumburg, IL – Schaumburg Convention Center • January 12-13, 2019 – Oaks, PA – Greater Philadelphia Expo Center • February 9-10, 2019 – Council Bluffs, IA – Mid-America […]
A Brazilian heritage rail group saved and restored a C30-7A locomotive in time for holiday train duty in the South American country. Bruno Sanches ARARAQUARA, São Paulo, Brazil — A Brazilian preservation group that saved the country’s only surviving C30-7A locomotive made quick work of its restoration and is now taking it on a tour […]
The Polar Bear Express, using leased Iowa Pacific Holdings Co. equipment, departs North-bound from Kokomo, Ind., on Sunday, Dec. 16. Steve Smedley KOKOMO, Ind. — If you need a Christmas-time covered wagon fix, central Indiana is the place to go. Two holiday passenger operations there are featuring classic Electro-Motive Division cab units as power. The […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Distributed power will become an even more common sight on CSX Transportation tracks in 2019. The railroad, which has introduced distributed power in intermodal service over the past four months, aims to double its use of distributed power over the next year, says Jamie Boychuk, senior vice president of network operations. “We’re […]
Nos. 4141 and 1943 on display at Proviso Yard near Chicago on Saturday. Lou Gerard OMAHA, Neb. – The locomotive that pulled the funeral train for former President George H.W. Bush will tour the Union Pacific system in the coming months. The SD70ACe, carrying a special paint scheme modeled after Air Force One and numbered […]
HO scale locomotives General Electric Dash 9-44CW. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (red-and-silver warbonnet, three road numbers); BC Rail (red, white, and blue and solid blue schemes, two numbers each); BNSF Ry. (Heritage II scheme, three numbers); CSX (yellow, blue, and gray scheme, three numbers); Norfolk Southern (red-and-gray scheme, one number); and Union Pacific (as-delivered […]
LOGANSPORT, Ind. — The cab of Monon’s first diesel, operational SW1 No. 50, was sheared off in a trucking accident Thursday night less than two miles from where the 76-year-old unit was to be offloaded at the relocated Indiana Transportation Museum. The truck moving the privately-owned unit from Noblesville, Ind., to the museum’s new home […]
Athearn HO scale SD70ACe with Tsunami2 A skew-wound motor with brass flywheels is secured to the center of the die-cast metal frame. Plastic driveshafts power all 12 wheels, which also pick up current. In 1943, employees of the Union Pacific RR agreed to an extra deduction in their paychecks to buy War Bonds during World […]
A Norfolk Southern SD70ACe pushes on an empty crude oil train in Toledo, Ohio, in March 2013. Michael D. Harding Q Watching passing freight trains, I’ve seen a locomotive located in the middle or at the end of the train. Are these pusher locomotives being run by remote control by the engineer in the lead […]
A GE-built TE33A locomotive for Ukraine. GE Transportation MELITOPOL, Ukraine — GE Transportation and Ukrainian Railways today celebrated a major accomplishment as the first Evolution Series locomotive entered service in Ukraine, part of an ongoing cooperative effort to comprehensively upgrade the country’s diesel-electric rail fleet. The project goal is to modernize Ukraine’s transportation infrastructure and […]
Union Pacific No. 4141, shown in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2008, is reportedly on its way to the Chicago area. Steve Schmollinger OMAHA, Neb. — The locomotive and baggage car from George H.W. Bush’s funeral train have ended their display in Omaha, and the locomotive is now reportedly heading to the Chicago area. Union Pacific […]
Athearn Trains HO scale EMD SD40T-2 tunnel motor News & Products for the week of December 13, 2018 HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD40T-2 diesel locomotive. Denver & Rio Grande Western, Southern Pacific (speed lettering with D&RGW reporting marks in two road numbers, Roman lettering in four numbers), St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt), and Union […]
