Norfolk Southern No. 4271 leads the three other F-units at Knoxville, Tenn., in November 2011 as a Southern Railway 2-8-0 stands by. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn In our lifetimes, Norfolk Southern has been a belle of nostalgic railroading typified by a matching black-and-white set of EMD built F units often arranged in A-B-B-A formation and looking […]
CHICAGO — Ten unions representing more than 30,000 employees have filed a federal lawsuit against BNSF Railway charging that the railroad’s demand for certain medical records is a violation of their rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The suit is in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. The […]
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Atlas N scale ALP-45DP locomotive performance charts Atlas N scale NJ Transit commuter train The trailer cars feature full interiors, with toilet and cab details where appropriate. Couplers are truck-mounted except at the cab end of the cab car. The cab car has operating headlight, ditch lights, and marker lights. N Scale fans of modern […]
WalthersProto HO scale EMD SD9 An HO scale General Motors Electro-Motive Division SD9 diesel is back on HO scale rails thanks to Wm. K. Walthers Inc. Part of the WalthersProto series, the model is accurately detailed and decorated for several road names. We reviewed an earlier release of the model in the December 2012 issue. […]
Rapido Trains HO Gunderson Husky-Stack The well has sockets for pins for one long or two short containers. Rapido Trains has released an HO scale Gunderson 53-foot Husky-Stack well car, with etched-metal running boards, new trucks, and factory-installed grab irons. The die-cast metal cars are accurately finished and include two individually numbered 53-foot containers. In […]
Tangent Scale Models HO scale PS-3 hopper This close-up view of the “B” end shows the many fine details applied to Tangent’s 2750 three-bay hopper. Tangent Scale Models has released its HO scale Pullman-Standard PS-3 2,750-cubic-foot-capacity three-bay hopper in seven new paint schemes. The injection-molded plastic HO scale car features prototype-specific unloading door mechanisms, handbrake […]
Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train raised more than $1.49 million (Canadian) and collected more than 238,000 pounds of food during its 2019 tour, the railroad says. Dan Kittay CALGARY — Canadian Pacific’s Holiday train raised more than C$1.49 million and collected 238,393 pounds of food during its 21st annual tour, the railroad announced. The figures are […]
Private car ‘Pawnee’ Illinois Railway Museum UNION, Ill. – The Illinois Railway Museum has acquired the historic Pullman private car Pawnee. The car was built in 1930 and is the second-to-last traditional heavyweight private car built by the Pullman Co. of Chicago. The museum is raising funds to cover the acquisition and transportation of this […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The recent deal between Virginia and CSX that will allow expanded passenger and commuter rail service south of Washington D.C. also reaches into North Carolina. The Raleigh News and Observer reports that the North Carolina Department of Transportation will eventually acquire about 10 miles of CSX right-of-way from the Virginia state line […]
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society has announced the winners of its 2019 research fellowship grant awards: the Center for Railroad Photography & Art of Madison, Wis., and author Tony Reevy of Durham, N.C. The awards panel chose CRP&A’s application to bring a broader audience to the research from its “After Promontory: 150 Years of […]
WASHINGTON — Short line and regional railroads received an early Christmas gift with the passage of a government spending bill last week that included a five-year extension of a popular tax credit. Last week, Congress passed a $1.4 trillion budget that included an extension of the Short Line Railroad 45G Tax Credit, first enacted in […]
