Drew is off on a summer railfan road trip, this time to Alma and Trempealeau, Wis., along the Mississippi River. In this episode, Drew shares a lot of great shots of BNSF Railway trains, gives you a few camera tips, and looks at a couple of things you may want to add to your model […]
Drew is off on a summer railfan road trip, this time to Alma and Trempealeau, Wis., along the Mississippi River. In this episode, Drew shares a lot of great shots of BNSF Railway trains, gives you a few camera tips, and looks at a couple of things you may want to add to your model […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s into the Way-Back Machine for this episode of History According to Hediger. In 1959 Jim was part of a fantrip on the Wabash RR, put on by the Michigan Railroad Club, and he shares many great pictures from the event in this […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page It’s into the Way-Back Machine for this episode of History According to Hediger. In 1959 Jim was part of a fantrip on the Wabash RR, put on by the Michigan Railroad Club, and he shares many great pictures from the event in this […]
Erie Pacific 2707, a sister to the engine that enthralled author Noble during Ohio summers, is seen at Dunkirk, N.Y., 200 miles and two seasons away, but coincidently also alongside an NYC line. Al Rung My dad, after changing jobs following World War II, from Crosley Corp., in Cincinnati to one at Wright-Patterson Air Force […]
FULL SCREEN David Plowden Milwuakee Road right-of-way, Waterloo, Wis., 1980 FULL SCREEN Aviva Gellman Wisconsin & Southern right-of-way, Waterloo, Wis., 2013 FULL SCREEN Aviva Gellman Wisconsin & Southern tracks and switches. FULL SCREEN Aviva Gellman Detail of warehouse in Waterloo, Wis., built after 1980, that replaced an older structure in Plowden’s original photo. FULL SCREEN […]
A trio of new Seaboard E4 diesels, perhaps the very ones “David Watson” saw in Florida three months earlier, shows off the citrus-hued Orange Blossom Special livery in March 1939. Hugh M. Comer, David W. Salter coll. To be addressed by my first and middle names by my parents meant one of two things. Either […]
It’s not often you get to see railroad history in the making, but these video clips of Norfolk Southern intermodal trains in the Blue Ridge Mountains show just that. You’ll be watching trains 201 and 202, which started running in January of 2013 between Memphis and the Northeast on the Crescent Corridor. This new corridor […]
It’s not often you get to see railroad history in the making, but these video clips of Norfolk Southern intermodal trains in the Blue Ridge Mountains show just that. You’ll be watching trains 201 and 202, which started running in January of 2013 between Memphis and the Northeast on the Crescent Corridor. This new corridor […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Back in the 1970s Jim Hediger and Model Railroader‘s then new editor, Russ Larson, took a fall trip to ride the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Ry., one of the famous western narrow gauge lines. Jim shares the story, complete with some great photographs […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Back in the 1970s Jim Hediger and Model Railroader‘s then new editor, Russ Larson, took a fall trip to ride the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Ry., one of the famous western narrow gauge lines. Jim shares the story, complete with some great photographs […]
FULL SCREEN Courtesy: Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer Productions FULL SCREEN Courtesy: Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer Productions FULL SCREEN Courtesy: Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer Productions Courtesy: Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer Productions The Lone Ranger, the timeless legend of radio and screen, is retold by Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer this summer in an over-the-top, in-your-face movie about the dynamic duo of the Old West. The […]
