Work progresses on Steve Tello’s Boston & Maine Lowell NH Line. Middlesex Junction was a service yard for B&M passenger cars and locomotive up through the early 1960s. Steve is modeling a compressed version of Middlesex, including 4 arrival/departure tracks, a buggy track, coal conveyor (B&M tore down the Coal Tower in the early ’50s), […]
Work progresses on Steve Tello’s Boston & Maine Lowell NH Line. Middlesex Junction was a service yard for B&M passenger cars and locomotive up through the early 1960s. Steve is modeling a compressed version of Middlesex, including 4 arrival/departure tracks, a buggy track, coal conveyor (B&M tore down the Coal Tower in the early ’50s), […]
Erie RS2 904 clatters into the Lackawanna’s Hoboken Terminal with a Main Line local in 1956. Richard H. Young Youth is wasted on young people, so the saying goes. Kids don’t have the … well … maturity to know what’s special in their world. Watch the crowds at Disneyland. It’s the adults who are agog […]
Extra tall fences (seen on the overpass in the background) often protect electrified lines from road debris. Michael S. Murray Q I have driven over the Northeast Corridor and have seen guardrails on the bridge get higher over the tracks themselves. Why is that? – Dan Wescott, Louisburg, N.C. A The primary reason higher barriers […]
Three FT diesels bring eastbound freight BH-2 past the Lackawanna Railroad’s station at Lake Hopatcong, N.J., in May 1946. Theo. A. Gay photo […]
Erie Railroad Alco passenger diesel No. 860 stands with a train at Hoboken, N.J., in April 1959. Erie’s 14 PAs all went to the Erie-Lackawanna upon the Erie’s merger with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1960. Erie began using Lackawanna’s Hoboken terminal a few years before the two roads merged. Louis A. Marre collection […]
It was an act of sheer audacity that made Baltimore the cradle of American railroading. Baltimore’s topography of hills broken by short, steep valleys was exactly wrong for a canal, and the city’s outlet to the west, the National Road, was expensive and slow. So city leaders proposed a railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio, to […]
Name: Neal Mayer Forum User Name: NealM Railroad Name: Trains in the Attic Location: Boston, MA Scale: Traditional O Gauge Theme: Location: Somewhere near the coast in north central New England Time period: Sometime between 1957 and today. Description: A freight train passes through the New England coastal town of Cabotport. Originally a small shelf […]
Name: Neal Mayer Forum User Name: NealM Railroad Name: Trains in the Attic Location: Boston, MA Scale: Traditional O Gauge Theme: Location: Somewhere near the coast in north central New England Time period: Sometime between 1957 and today. Description: A freight train passes through the New England coastal town of Cabotport. Originally a small shelf […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP Video Vault host Allen Keller tours Sam Powell’s Penn Creek Valley S scale layout designed for continuous running. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page MRVP Video Vault host Allen Keller tours Sam Powell’s Penn Creek Valley S scale layout designed for continuous running. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Terry B. Ketcham gives you a walking tour of his multilevel model train layout, the HO scale West Virginia & Southern Ry. The Appalachian scenery and industries are inspired by the Norfolk & Western Ry. of the 1950s. You’ll also see some of […]
