Name: Tom Grabenstein Railroad Name: Little River Rail Road Location: The Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Logging Description: The fifth video from Little River RR productions and Choo Choo Films is a tribute to the 8 and 16 mm films made by railfans and company men toward the end of logging by […]
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Name: Tom Grabenstein Railroad Name: Little River Rail Road Location: The Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee Scale: 1:20.3 Theme: Logging Description: The fifth video from Little River RR productions and Choo Choo Films is a tribute to the 8 and 16 mm films made by railfans and company men toward the end of logging by […]
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Broadway Limited Imports HO scale C&O T-1 2-10-4 steam locomotive A locomotive designed for both speed and power is being offered in HO scale by Broadway Limited Imports. The Chesapeake & Ohio class T-1 2-10-4 “Texas” steam locomotive, built by Lima Locomotive Works, was designed to haul long coal trains from the mines of West […]
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Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 No. 2816 is seen on the Brooks Subdivision at milepost 139 near Strangmuir, Alberta, in June 2010 on a test run following a 20-month rebuild. Photo by Bill Hooper […]
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FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN J.P. Hankey Frederick Junction, Maryland FULL SCREEN J.P. Hankey Sykesville, Maryland FULL SCREEN J.P. Hankey Weverton, Maryland FULL SCREEN J.P. Hankey Weverton, Maryland FULL SCREEN St. Denis, Maryland FULL SCREEN St. Denis, Maryland FULL SCREEN St. Denis, Maryland FULL SCREEN C&O Canal, Maryland FULL SCREEN Cumberland, Maryland FULL SCREEN […]
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Garratt Locomotives Reprinted by Heimburger House Publishing, 7236 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130; 36 pages, 50 illustrations; softcover, 11.5 x 8.5 in.; $18.95 Heimburger House has published this reprint of a 1920s-era Beyer, Peacock & Co. Garratt locomotive catalog. To North American eyes, the Garratt is an unusual-looking machine, but the fact that […]
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The Twilight of Steam: Great Photography from the Last Days of Steam Locomotives in America By Brian Solomon Voyageur Press, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401; 192 pages, 128 b&w photos; hardcover, 12 x 10 in.; $50.00 More than 50 years after the last steam engines ran in revenue service, the fascination […]
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See this photo gallery of streamlined locomotives that dazzled crowds at the North Carolina Transportation Museum complex in Spencer, N.C., in Summer 2014. This is a modified version of the photo gallery that first appeared on Classic Trains‘ website. […]
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Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 returned to Cheyenne, Wyo., on May 8, 2014, and Trains Editor Jim Wrinn was there to record the moment when the 4-8-8-4 and its tender inched back into the railroad’s steam shops. Only from Trains! […]
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Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 returned to Cheyenne, Wyo., on May 8, 2014, and Trains Editor Jim Wrinn was there to record the moment when the 4-8-8-4 and its tender inched back into the railroad’s steam shops. Only from Trains! […]
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Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Now that spring has arrived, Host Hal Miller shifts the roundtable discussion to garden railroading. Two first-time guests, Garden Railways magazine editor Marc Horovitz and MRVP’s Kent Johnson, share their enthusiasm for running big (Large scale) trains in the great outdoors. Along with […]
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