A northbound freight led by Northern Pacific 2-8-0 no. 60 waits in the siding for a southbound Pacific & Idaho Northern passenger train. The freight train’s crew is on the ground to do a roll-by inspection of the passenger train. Dave Rickaby photographed the scene on Dave Allen’s freelanced HO scale Pacific & Idaho Northern, […]
Officially a Burlington Northern train but looking just as it had under the Northern Pacific, the North Coast Limited pauses at Butte, Mont., on April 10, 1970, just over a month after the merger. The train retains a complete set of equipment in the paint scheme by famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy. Steve Patterson photo […]
Three Northern Pacific Geeps lead a manifest freight over the High Bridge Viaduct between Stampede and Lester, Wash. The action takes place on the Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers’ HO scale layout at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, Wash. The model railroad is open to the public. Lou Sassi photo Model Railroader‘s Photo […]
A 70-car Rio Grande narrow gauge freight drops down Tanglefoot Curve east of Cumbres, Colo., on June 11, 1960. Power is K-36 2-8-2 No. 486. Robert F. Collins photo […]
It’s a great day to be railfanning at Tug Tower in Welch, W.Va. As a westbound Norfolk Southern unit coal train comes downgrade, NS General Electric units prepare to ascend the grade. Lou Sassi took the photo on Scott Teague’s N scale layout in Granite Falls, N.C. Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images […]
Rare elsewhere, the 4-8-0 was Norfolk & Western’s top freight engine until 1910, when the first articulateds arrived. Out of an original fleet of 286 Twelve-Wheelers, by 1954, three dozen remained, including 1906-built 475, switching at Potts Valley Junction on the Radford Division. Today this engine hauls tourists, and sometimes freight, at the Strasburg Rail […]
Louisville & Nashville GP40 no. 3002 and U23B no. 2737 pass over the Powell River on John Wilkes’ HO scale L&N Thornhill Division. John models the railroad’s coal operations in eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia between 1968 and 1978. Paul Dolkos photo Model Railroader‘s Photo of the Day features images from our archives, celebrating decades […]
Boston & Maine train 58, the eastbound Minuteman, approaches North Pownal, Vt., in August 1940. Pacific 3658 has milk cars tucked in behind its tender. John P. Ahrens photo […]
The Chesapeake & Ohio was known for its large steam locomotives and tried to head off converting to diesels with three massive M-1 class coal-fired steam-turbine electrics. Here we see one of the turbines taking on coal at Clifton Forge, Va. Jeb Kriigel of Palmyra, Va., scratchbuilt the coal tower and photographed the O scale […]
At Works Tower in Altoona, Pa., a fresh crew gets ready to take Chicago-bound Pennsylvania Railroad piggyback train TT1 west. Unseen, car inspectors check for loose tie-down bracing on the trailers. GP9 No. 7000 is preserved at the Cape May Seashore Lines in New Jersey. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was the first railroad to order Electro-Motive Corp. FTs, and four of them are seen here leading an extra (note the white flags on the lead unit) through Starkville, Colo. The scene was on the late David Haines’ N scale AT&SF layout. Bill Pearce took the photo. Model Railroader‘s […]
Alabama, Tennessee & Northern No. 11, a General Electric 45-ton center-cab diesel, switches high-pressure tank cars for a refinery on Blakely Island at Mobile, Ala. The railroad, which otherwise consisted of about 200 miles up the west side of the state, operated a car ferry and docks to reach this trackage. It was merged into […]
