Three of Denver & Rio Grande Western’s giant 3600-series 2-8-8-2s team up to lift a 42-car train up Tennessee Pass at Rex, Colo., just east of Minturn, in August 1954. R. H. Kindig photo […]
Tackling Tennessee Pass
Type of Train: Freight
Meat reefers at Hormel
A Milwaukee Road switcher moves a cut of refrigerator cars at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minn., in 1942. Most of the reefers are wood-sheathed cars leased from North American. Classic Trains collection […]
GTW 4-8-4 on a freight
Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4 6317 approaches South Bend (Ind.) Union Station with a westbound freight in April 1948. A dozen years later, GTW would become one of the final Class I railroads to use steam power. Andrew Corsini photo […]
Union Pacific, Watco invest in refrigerated train business NEWSWIRE
KETCHUM, Idaho — Union Pacific and Watco Cos.’ East Idaho Railroad are making investments in a refrigerated rail business that moves produce and other food from the West Coast to Upstate New York, Capital Press reports. The rail service begins in Wallula, Wash., on Union Pacific rails. The refrigerated cars then pass through Oregon before […]
Twenty-four hours at Supai Summit
On May 23, 1996, Santa Fe train P-CHLA1-21, a 5,338-ton, 7,133-foot train, at Supai Summit in northern Arizona. John C. Lucas Have you read Fred W. Frailey’s October 2017 “Commentary,” “24 hours at Supai Summit?” He spills all of the details of a 1996 visit to Kaibab National Forest 4 miles east of Williams, Ariz., […]
Cargill to spend $18 million on rail-served grain storage facility in Nebraska NEWSWIRE
An eastbound Union Pacific-Ferromex grain train rolls through Gothenburg, Neb., in October 2016. Chase Gunnoe MINNEAPOLIS — Cargill is investing $18 million to expand a Union Pacific-served grain facility in Gibbon, Neb. The expansion will increase the facility’s capacity by an additional 2 million bushels of grain storage and increase its unload capacity of 65,000 […]
Railfan camera captures trespassers, vandals at Horseshoe Curve NEWSWIRE
A Facebook page promoting railroad safety and education shared screenshots from Virtual Railfan’s Horseshoe Curve camera showing the three trespassers and vandals from Sunday’s incident near Altoona. STOP Photography and Trespassing on Railroad Tracks via Facebook ALTOONA, Pa. — A video streaming service for railroad enthusiasts recently spotted more than just trains at the Horseshoe […]
How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron – Episode 7, Shading techniques
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of Airbrushing with Aaron, FineScale Modeler senior editor Aaron Skinner demonstrates two airbrushing techniques that help you replicate how sunlight naturally reflects on painted surfaces. Follow along as Aaron demonstrates post-shading and pre-shading effects on a WWII tank model […]
How-to Library: Airbrushing with Aaron – Episode 7, Shading techniques
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page In this episode of Airbrushing with Aaron, FineScale Modeler senior editor Aaron Skinner demonstrates two airbrushing techniques that help you replicate how sunlight naturally reflects on painted surfaces. Follow along as Aaron demonstrates post-shading and pre-shading effects on a WWII tank model […]
Frac (sand) is back NEWSWIRE
Canadian National unit sand train U75081-18 passes by the Metra station in Antioch, Ill. Powering the train is rebuilt AC44C6M No. 4016, formerly Norfolk Southern C40-9 No. 8849. Trailing the rebuilt locomotive is C44-9W No. 8276, and SD70M-2s Nos. 2661 and 8942. Video by Chris Guss TRAINS: Rick Johnson Railroads are enjoying a resurgence in […]
Rail brands deciphered
This line of numbers and letters is a rail brand. Deciphered correctly, they show railroads the weight, maker, treatment, design, and manufacture date of a rail. Ed Funkhouser Q I saw these numbers and letters on the side of a rail near Mebane, N.C. Can you tell me what they mean? – Ed Funkhouser, Raleigh, […]
Trains Presents: Triple Crown Roadrailer action
Take a look at the final month of Norfolk Southern subsidiary Triple Crown Services, before its 2015 retrenchment. You’ll see a variety of motive power with this unique RoadRailer freight equipment that is now largely retired. Only from Trains Magazine! For another look at the Triple Crown RoadRailer trains, check out our Triple Crown’s Fort […]
