An underrated diesel

NH-PP-716

Once a proud hauler of crack passenger trains and fast freights as a DL109 diesel locomotive, New Haven test vehicle PP 716 languishes in Boston in 1968, awaiting its fate: the scrapper’s torch. Bruce Beardsley If Alco’s famous PA diesel is perhaps a bit overrated, as implied in the January 2004 issue of Trains magazine, then the […]

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Reflections on the N scale convention

ReflectionsontheNscaleconvention

Each person who attended the N scale convention banquet received a special souvenir car compliments of Micro-Trains. That’s one mighty big wheel of cheese! The National N Scale Convention came to town this past June, so I spent a busy spring in the basement getting the layout ready for visitors. As usual, I made a list […]

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First train to Tower Grove usually wins

Smoking steam locomotives with passenger train

St. Louis, late 1940s: After a “race” that was not as close as the one author John Mills saw in 1941, MP 4-6-2 5327 rolls the Missourian past a Terminal Railroad Association Baldwin diesel as Frisco 4-8-2 4401 backs the Will Rogers into Union Station. Harold E. Williams What could be more exciting to an 11-year-old […]

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Union Pacific freight station drawings

UnionPacificfreightstation

Check out these plans for the Union Pacific Glendale freight depot from Model Railroader magazine. Union Pacific built this modern-looking freight station midway along the 1.25-mile Glendale Branch that once was part of the former Glendale & Montrose Ry. The post-World War II structure was built of brick with large windows for natural light, and […]

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