American Model Builders N&W caboose Looking for a certain article or video? Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Are you looking to learn more about your model railroad, or do you have questions about full-size trains? Send us an email at: AskTrains@trains.com ………………………………… Ask Trains is a regular video feature of Trains.com […]
Preorder a specific locomotive Limited run is the name of the game in model railroading today. So how do you make sure you don’t miss out on your favorite locomotive or freight car? You need to place a preorder. Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Are you looking to learn more […]
Preorder a specific locomotive Limited run is the name of the game in model railroading today. So how do you make sure you don’t miss out on your favorite locomotive or freight car? You need to place a preorder. Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Are you looking to learn more […]
Baltimore & Ohio E7 diesels in A-B-A formation head a train carrying President Truman, on the campaign trail for re-election, at Gary, Ind., on Oct. 25, 1948. B&O photo […]
Carl Donald works the CTC board in the tower at Deshler, Ohio, in 1952. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No. 1610, one of the road’s 60 giant Allegheny types, works as a pusher on a coal train. Classic Trains coll. […]
Among the most recognizable of all steam locomotive designs is the New York Central J-3a Hudson as styled by industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss for the 1938 20th Century Limited. Just-completed No. 5445, the first of the 10 streamlined 4-6-4s, stands outside the Alco plant at Schenectady, N.Y. Classic Trains coll. […]
Milwaukee Road’s Minneapolis–Chicago Morning Hiawatha crosses from track 1 to track 2 as it passes over the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern diamonds at Rondout, Ill., on April 10, 1971. The streamliner is 32 miles from its destination and 20 days from its final run. W. C. Christopher photo […]
A 4-6-2 Pacific leads a Milwaukee Road suburban train past the road’s Western Avenue coach yards in Chicago on an afternoon run from Union Station to Fox Lake, Ill., in 1948. Henry J. McCord photo […]
Dallas’s Union Terminal hosted trains from eight railroads and featured through tracks. The tracks at upper right lead to a coach yard. Historic American Engineering Record photo […]
Canadian National 4-8-4 6232 swings through Hamilton Junction, Ont., with a passenger extra for Hamilton in 1958, when steam was mostly gone from U.S. main lines but still going strong in parts of Canada. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
A crewman climbs aboard Chicago & North Western class H No. 3017 on Nov. 17, 1929, six days after the 4-8-4 arrived from Baldwin. The engine is being broken in on the main line west of Chicago. A. W. Johnson photo […]
