Page 35 – Trains

The Rail Diesel Car (RDC) was the Budd Co.’s answer to declining passenger traffic during the post war. The demonstrator was introduced on Sept. 19, 1949, at Chicago Union Station. As described by Trains’ then-Associate Editor David P. Morgan in the November 1949 issue, this new rail-motor car was a combination of prior self-propelled technology, […]

Amtrak Toledo services through the years

Amtrak Toledo services passenger train crossing low bridge over waterway

Amtrak Toledo services have seen changes consistent with the rest of the national network in its 50-year history. Throughout its history, Amtrak trains have called upon the former New York Central station on Emerald Avenue at the south end of downtown. NYC opened the station, built with cream brick and copious amounts of glass block, […]

Six EMD locomotives no one wanted

Yellow-and-black centercab GMDH1 diesel-hydraulic locomotives outside factory

EMD may be the most famous locomotive manufacturer in the history of railroading. Despite that success, there are models in the the EMD history books which arrived to little fanfare and few orders. The following are six notable examples of EMD locomotives that, for one reason or another, no one wanted. EMD Model 40 The […]

Big Four

An HO scale scene of tank cars spotted at a loading rack, with storage tanks and an oil well nearby

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The General

An ornate, old-fashioned black-and-red 4-4-0 steam locomotive smokes on a wood trestle

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The Virginia City embodies the legacy of Beebe and Clegg

I’ve never been in the market for a private railroad car — editors and writers rarely ascend to that rarified air — but if I was, I’d compose an email this very moment and send it to the equipment broker Ozark Mountain Railcar, there to bid on what might be the ultimate PV: heavyweight sleeper-observation […]