Senior editor Jim Hediger shows you the Bachmann Trains HO scale Schnabel car during a special move on the Model Railroader staff’s Wisconsin & Southern layout. […]
Video: Bachmann Trains HO scale Schnabel car
Type of Train: Freight
Sunset over Sidney
Local railfans wave at a passing westbound as the sun sinks over Sidney, Ohio, on June 7, 2011. This former New York Central line served as the Conrail – and now CSX – route to the St. Louis gateway. Photo by Brian M. Schmidt […]
Just passing through
CSX train Q137 rolls through Sherwood, Ohio, without much local fanfare on July 30, 2011. This westbound intermodal train is operating over the former Baltimore & Ohio main line on its way to Chicago on this fading summer evening. Photo by Brent Kneebush […]
I’m No. 1!
Norfolk Southern GP18 No. 1 switches in the Chocowinity, N.C., yard, preparing a train for the Texas Gulf phosphate plant on Oct. 28, 1973. Photo by William J. Husa Jr. […]
Delaware Lackawanna Freights in Action
FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Don Colangelo, Delaware-Lackawanna chief mechanical officer, cleans the handrails on C420 No. 405 at Scranton, Pa., on April 9, 2012. FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Colangelo and author Kevin Tomasic discuss Alcos at Tower 60, Scranton, Pa., on April 9, 2012. FULL SCREEN Kevin Scanlon Delaware-Lackawanna grain train SPG09 heads for Horizon […]
Take a photo tour of Amtrak’s new Miami shop
FULL SCREEN Bob Johnston Welcome to Hialeah! Amtrak shares space in the 53-acre shop area with CSX and Tri-Rail vendors Veolia and Bombardier, which service Tri-Rail’s Miami-West Palm Beach commuter trains. FULL SCREEN Bob Johnston Wheels that have been recently trued (machined and straightened) are put on a truck for the Auto Train facility at […]
Doing the hustle
Union Pacific No. 6945 hustles past the railroad park in Rochelle, Ill., with double-stacked K-Line containers from Global 3. Photo by Sean Valk […]
Rolling by rocks
A southbound Canadian National freight rolls through a limestone quarry in Waukesha, Wis., in August 2011. Stone, sand, and gravel make up the largest source of originating traffic on Wisconsin railroads. Photo by Matt Van Hattem […]
Coal plants of the Northeast and Great Lakes, 2002
Coal is the most important rail commodity in the United States. In the early 2000s, when this map was produced, coal accounted for one of four cars loaded and slightly more than 20 percent of rail revenue. Eighty percent of the coal goes to the generation of electricity at steam power plants, so a map […]
Grade profiles of the Pocahontas coal roads
Compared here are the main lines of railroads that, for most of the 20th century, fed the nation with its most important natural resource: bituminous coal mined in Appalachia — the critical ingredient in power plants, steel mills, home furnaces, and factories. In 1927, the year of our comparison, the Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk […]
Great Lakes ports in 2003
Commercial shipping on the Great Lakes follows a 2,300-mile corridor from the St. Lawrence Seaway to the western edge of Lake Superior. Over 200 million tons of cargo a year cross the five lakes and connecting waterways, hauled in some 150 U.S. and Canadian lakers, 50,000 barges, and about 1,000 visits by ocean-going vessels, or […]
Top intermodal lanes in North America, 2004
This Map of the Month was featured in the August 2004 issue of Trains magazine. This map shows a commodity flow, or what everyone treats as a commodity flow: the trailers and containers that move in intermodal lanes in the U.S. and Canada. These boxes might actually contain anything from hay to helicopter parts, but almost […]
