Cody answers this question in this video of Ask Trains. Send us your questions Got a question about modeling, operation, or prototype railroading? E-mail it to us at AskTrains@Trains.com. […]
Q: Can you tell me the minimum curve radius of the Rapido Trains SW1200? A: I wrote to Jason Shron, president of Rapido Trains, and he said they tested the SW1200 on 18 inch radius track. I have a half circle of 18 inch radius track in front of me, so let’s take a look […]
One of the North Shore Line’s two Electroliner trains pauses at the North Chicago station on a southbound run one snowy night in the 1950s. William D. Middleton photo […]
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A Southern Pacific PA-PB-PA set leads the westbound City of San Francisco at Davis, Calif., in June 1951. D. W. Johnson photo […]
Baltimore & Ohio box-cab electric No. 10 shifts cars on the constricted trackage near the Baltimore waterfront in September 1949. In 1954, after B&O shut down its trolley system, the little fellow retired to the B&O Railroad Museum. H. N. Proctor photo […]
Several baggage carts stand ready to receive mail and express as an Atlantic Coast Line train backs into the Wilmington, N.C., station in 1957. William D. Middleton photo […]
Consolidation No. 22 of the Oahu Railway & Land Co. has a freight train from Honolulu in tow as it skirts the Pacific Ocean en route to Kahuku on the island’s northern tip. The picturesque OR&L was largely abandoned shortly after World War II. Kent W. Cochrane photo […]
Norfolk & Western 4-6-2 No. 578 crosses Bull Run with Bluefield–Norton, Va., train 5 on May 27, 1952. The Pacific now resides at the Ohio Railway Museum. Edward Theisinger photo […]
During 1942–44, the Santa Fe replaced its 1890 through-truss bridge over the Colorado River with a higher-level deck-truss span. Sets of FT diesels pose with west- and eastbound freights during the short time that both bridges were in service. Santa Fe photo […]
By September 1954, Cincinnati Union Terminal’s original 0-6-0 switchers were stored, supplanted by Lima and EMD diesels. Here CUT No. 10 awaits a call to duty that will never come. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Cody Grivno explains several different options for removing decals from your locomotive. Prototype railroads renumber their locomotives from time to time, and you can do the same thing on your model railroad. […]
