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Canadian Pacific Alco RS3 No. 8400 leads a local into North Newport, Vt., on Neil Schofield’s HO scale Connecticut River Line layout. Neil added several detail parts to the Alco, a Kato model, so it would match the prototype. Lou Sassi took the photo. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, […]
Time capsule When construction of Pennsylvania’s iron ore and coal-hauling East Broad Top began in 1872, more than 150 years ago, its builders decided it would be a narrow gauge line, with rails set 3-feet apart instead of the North American standard gauge of 4-feet, 8.5-inches. Narrow gauge offered significant advantages, as the smaller locomotives […]
Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 Mallets 1309 and 1302 are departing Scarlet, West Virginia, in June 1950 with a loaded coal train. The 10 members of C&O’s H-6 class were the last steam locomotives built for domestic use by Baldwin Locomotive Works (1949). Engine 1309 is being restored for service on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad […]
The Sail & Rail is a popular spot with sailors, railroaders, and dock workers on the south side of Milwaukee, Wis. Like many of the buildings on the late John Franzen’s 28 x 28-foot no. 1 gauge (1:29 and 1:24 proportion) layout, the corner tavern represents an actual Milwaukee business. William Zuback took the photo. […]
Light snow started falling in the middle of the afternoon and finally let up after everyone dwelling on Will Rothfuss’ compact O gauge layout went to sleep. Now with the sun about to rise over Stroudsburg, Pa., a newsboy prepares to sell copies of the morning express to travelers. The solitary man impatiently waiting for […]
Steam over Cumbres Pass On a sunny June morning in Antonito, Colorado, Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad’s 4-6-0 No. 168, built by Baldwin in 1883, is readied for another run over the mountains. Its relatively tall 46-inch drivers made it suitable for fast passenger service. Carl Swanson The 64-mile-long Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is […]
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic DRS-6-6-15 road-switcher No. 201 stands with a bulkhead flatcar of pulpwood, a major commodity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The South Shore had 4 of the 82 six-motor, 1,500-horsepower units that Baldwin Locomotive Works built between 1948 and 1950. Photo by A. C. Kalmbach […]
Railfans watch as a Western Maryland coal train swings around famous Helmstetter’s Curve on its descent eastward toward Cumberland, Md., in May 1952. Photo by Edward Theisinger […]
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. […]
