How do you find specific curved end railings? Sometimes it can be hard to find a commercial part for the prototype’s specific details. Cody shows viewers how to make their own curved end railings in this video of Ask Trains. Do you have questions about specific details for your model trains? Would you like to […]
How do you find specific curved end railings? Sometimes it can be hard to find a commercial part for the prototype’s specific details. Cody shows viewers how to make their own curved end railings in this video of Ask Trains. Do you have questions about specific details for your model trains? Would you like to […]
How to repair or replace broken/missing couplers? Cody shares ways to take care of couplers in this video of Ask Trains. Do you have questions about model railroading? Would you like to learn more about prototype trains? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers […]
How to repair or replace broken/missing couplers? Cody shares ways to take care of couplers in this video of Ask Trains. Do you have questions about model railroading? Would you like to learn more about prototype trains? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature of Trains.com for magazine subscribers […]
Two young boys watch New York Central 4-6-0 1290 switch cars at Brigden, Ont., on NYC’s St. Thomas branch in September 1955. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
New York Central 4-8-4 6000 (left, the first of NYC’s famous Niagaras) and Baltimore & Ohio 4-6-2 5313 (one of B&O’s famous “President” Pacifics) simmer near Cincinnati Union Terminal one evening in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Consolidation 111 moves away from the coal dock at the Long Island Rail Road’s Morris Park engine terminal near Jamaica in the early 1940s. Also in the scene are (from left) an engine dating from before the Pennsylvania Railroad gained control of the LIRR in 1900, a PRR-design LIRR G5s 4-6-0, and a PRR K2s […]
A single MP54 multiple-unit car pauses at Odenton, Md., while working train 404, an early-morning Washington–Baltimore local on the Pennsylvania Railroad main line today known as the Northeast Corridor. H. N. Proctor photo […]
Three connecting short lines in southwest Georgia — the Georgia Northern; Albany & Northern; and Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester & Camilla — were known as the “Pidcock Kingdom” owing to their onetime control by C. W. Pidcock. By 1968, when GN SW8 No. 13 ambled north with a freight on the GAS&C, they were all under […]
Framed by the pilot of 2-8-2 1457 stopped in a side track with a northbound local freight, 4-8-2 2508 hammers south through Gillman, Ill., on the Illinois Central’s main line with a through freight in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Great Northern’s Red River departs Minneapolis on the last leg of its daily morning Grand Forks, N.D.–St. Paul run in April 1951. Bob Borcherding photo […]
Pacific 153 leads the Clinchfield Railroad’s daily passenger train from Spartanburg, S.C., to Elkhorn City, Ky., across the landmark Copper Creek Viaduct near Speers Ferry, Va., on May 28, 1952. The lower trestle carries Southern Railway’s Bristol–Appalachia, Va., line over the creek. Ed Theisinger photo […]
