Kato N scale Operation North Pole set The basic Operation North Pole set includes the top three cars, the bottom two make up the add-on set. Allstate Arena and Donald E. Stephens are cab cars. The cab cars have switches to turn the headlights and marker lights on or off. Kato F40PH with shell removed […]
Pacific 203 leads Western Maryland’s Elkins, W.Va.–Cumberland, Md., local train along the North Branch of the Potomac River near Westernport, Md., in June 1952. H. F. Houck photo […]
Take a look at Trains Magazine’s hometown hot spot: the Duplainville, Wis., diamond! You’ll see both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific freights along with Amtrak in this September 2017 visit. […]
Take a look at Trains Magazine’s hometown hot spot: the Duplainville, Wis., diamond! You’ll see both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific freights along with Amtrak in this September 2017 visit. […]
Tesla Semi Tesla Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk says his company’s battery-powered big rig, unveiled last week, will be 20 percent cheaper to operate than diesel trucks and represents “economic suicide for rail.” But reports of rail’s impending death may be exaggerated. “Is this going to be a game-changer? No, not yet anyway,” says […]
Combine a world-renowned modeler (Pelle Søeborg), a guy that’s great at photographing trains (Drew Halverson), another who’s pretty darn good at both (Cody Grivno), and a sunny day spent trackside, and you get Modelers In A Minivan Along The Main Line! Join their jaunt across the Wisconsin countryside, and you’ll see just what inspires this […]
Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 27 is at Cloquet, Minn., bound for Saginaw with empty log flats in August 1962. The 11-mile line was all-steam until 1964. A sister to this engine, D&NE 28, was recently reactivated by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Russ Porter photo […]
Three of the Virginian Railway’s box-cab electrics fly high above the New River with an eastbound train at Glen Lyn, Va., in the 1950s. Richard J. Cook photo […]
Check out this N scale coal mining scene. Video by Everett Seymour. […]
Check out this N scale coal mining scene. Video by Everett Seymour. […]
WASHINGTON — Maryland’s entire congressional delegation has written to CSX Transportation CEO E. Hunter Harrison, asking him to explain the railroad’s decision to drop out of a partnership to raise clearances in the Howard Street Tunnel. On Nov. 1, in response to media inquiries, CSX confirmed that it no longer considered the long-sought tunnel project […]
ST. PAUL, Va. — Portions of the CSX Transportation’s former Clinchfield Railroad mainline are seeing an uptick in traffic as the railroad is using the famed coal line as a reliever route. Trains‘ Tishia Boggs caught CSX AC440CW-H No. 516 leading empty unit coal train W103-20 headed northbound over a crossover with Norfolk Southern at […]
