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Soo Line double-sheathed caboose no. 573 marks the end of a passing freight. Dave Rickaby photographed the train on the Rhinelander (Wis.) Railroad Association’s HO scale Pelican Rapids, Roosevelt & Satuit layout. The model railroad features the operations of several former railroads that ran in the Badger State. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features […]
Western Maryland 4-6-6-4 1202 drifts downgrade with an eastbound freight in the narrows along the Potomac River just west of Cumberland, Md., in May 1952. Edward Theisinger photo […]
Southern Alberta Rail Electro- Motive Division F45 no. 101, the railroad’s oldest active unit, is paired up with a modern SD70MAC on a westbound freight near Crowsnest, British Columbia, Canada. Grant Eastman of Calgary, Alberta, took the photo on his N scale layout. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating […]
Pacific Fruit Express was co-owned by Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. This 40-foot class R-30-12 car, built in 1923, had a wood body and steel underframe. It was typical of the thousands of “modern” refrigerator cars through the 1930s. Photo by Standard Steel Car Co. […]
With snow-capped mountains in the background, Denver & Rio Grande Western GP35 no. 3042 brings a Denver-bound local freight past Little Lake. The scene, photographed by Lou Sassi, is on Frank Czubryt’s O scale Denver Union Terminal layout. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades of model railroad heritage […]
Chesapeake Western, a 54-mile T-shaped west central Virginia road, employed three 1946 Baldwin DS-4-4-660s, two of which drill cars at Harrisonburg, site of the Southern Railway interchange, on November 5, 1958. CW, under Norfolk & Western control after 1954, also reached C&O at Staunton. Bob Krone photo […]
Southern Ry. SW9 No. 1136 spots a loaded hopper at Innes Brothers Coal & Lumber Co. Lou Sassi took the photo on Bob Lawson’s HO scale Southern Ry. layout in Danville, Ky. You can read more about Bob’s model railroad in the August 2003 issue of Model Railroader. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features […]
Motorists in Green Junction have a curbside view of rail activity on the Central Vermont (CV). Today, two Electro-Motive Division GP9s, one leased from neighboring Boston & Maine, bring the CV’s Palmer-to-Brattleboro local through Green Junction. Thomas Nordanberg photographed the scene on Ole Pade’s HO scale layout in Sollentuna, Sweden. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the […]
Led by 1936 power unit 9905 Zephyrus, the Twin Cities Zephyr rolls down Second Street in La Crosse, Wis., circa 1939. The slow street running was an obstacle when competing with Chicago & North Western and Milwaukee Road for Chicago to Twin Cities traffic. Elden H. Hunter photo […]
Three South Western & Pacific General Electric U-boats lead a westbound train through rural Texas. The train, on its way to Mesa City, Ariz., was photographed by Doyle Davis of Crockett, Texas. Doyle took the photo on his freelanced N scale layout. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades […]
The Canadian National’s 4-8-4 U-4s were striking machines from any angle. Colors were black with green stripes, cab, and tender, accented by gold trim and white tires. This scene is at Spadina roundhouse in Toronto, on March 10, 1957. Jim Shaughnessy photo […]
Kansas City Southern F3 No. 30 leads the northbound Southern Belle past Terminal Ry. tower no. 6 on its last lap into Kansas City Union Station. To the right, a Kansas City Terminal switcher brings in a sleeper to set out for the westbound Super Chief. The action takes place on Nicholas Muff’s HO scale […]
