Arrowhead Models HO scale ‘Committee Design’ hopper

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Arrowhead Models HO scale ‘Committee Design’ hopper The slope sheets with their steeper ends are clearly visible on Arrowhead Models’ Committee Design 70-ton hopper. Design by committee isn’t usually a ringing endorsement, but these new HO scale 70-ton coal hoppers from Arrowhead Models could certainly turn the tide. The committee in question included Pennsylvania RR, […]

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Bachmann HO scale test weight car

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Bachmann HO scale test weight car Price: $39 Manufacturer Bachmann Trains 1400 East Erie Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19124 www.bachmanntrains.com Era: 1930s to present Road names: Burlington Northern, Baltimore & Ohio, Canadian National, and Union Pacific. Also available painted black but unlettered. Comments: Used for calibrating track scales, test weight cars (also called scale test cars) […]

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Pennsylvania welcomes the museum in a boxcar NEWSWIRE

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A museum on the Cumberland Valley is in this boxcar that has opened at the university in Shippensburg, Pa. Dan Cupper SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — The nation’s newest railroad museum is a boxcar. The Cumberland Valley Railroad Museum opened for business on Saturday in a 1956 New York Central 50-foot boxcar painted in its most recent […]

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New model trains for the week of April 11, 2019

Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Union Pacific late 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive

Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Union Pacific late 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive HO scale locomotives Union Pacific late 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive. Clinchfield (painted black and graphite with coal tender in two road numbers) and Union Pacific (black and graphite with coal tender in two numbers, black and graphite with oil tender and smoke lifters […]

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Ask Trains: How Triple Crown trailers withstand train forces without standard freight cars

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A Triple Crown trailer train heads westbound out of Huntington, Ind., in September 2015. 15273-21 Randy Olson Question: I occasionally see Triple Crown semi-trailer trains on a route that runs near Decatur, Ill. Since these trailers are attached directly to one another and are not on flatcars, how are the frames of these trailers reinforced […]

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Nevada State Railroad Museum set to display last Promontory passenger car NEWSWIRE

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Leland Stanford’s office car, later Virginia & Truckee coach No. 17, will be on public display for the first time at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City. NSRM: Wendell Huffman CARSON CITY, Nev. – This spring, the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City will unveil a major new exhibit: “The Transcontinental Railroad: […]

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New model trains for the week of April 4, 2019

Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale Alco S-2 diesel locomotive

Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale Alco S-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Alco S-2 diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Canadian National (red and black with “wet noodle” herald), Chicago Great Western (maroon and black), Erie (black), Maine Central (black, red, and white), Southern Pacific (gray and scarlet), and St. Louis-San Francisco (Northeast Oklahoma RR […]

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Drovers’ caboose

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Missouri-Kansas-Texas drovers’ caboose No. 350 shows off the car’s extra length. The cars could accommodate extra riders overseeing livestock shipments. Harold Schupp Q Where, in the train’s consist, were drovers’ cabooses placed? Were they at the rear with the regular caboose, or somewhere in the train’s consist near the stock cars? Were they used only […]

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Greenbrier Cos. stock price still sagging after disappointing quarterly results NEWSWIRE

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LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. — The stock price of The Greenbrier Companies has been trying to recoup some of the ground lost when the rail-car builder issued preliminary fiscal-second-quarter earnings well below what financial analysts were expecting. Greenbrier stock lost $3.62 a share and settled at $33.76 — a drop of more than 9 percent — […]

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Athearn announces Genesis 2.0 series

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The Athearn Genesis 2.0 SD90MAC-H will be decorated for Union Pacific, Fortescue Metals Group, EMD demonstrator, and Union Pacific. Pre-production samples shown. The newly tooled SD90MAC-H features etched-metal see-through steps, illuminated number boxes, and ground effect lighting. Pre-production sample shown. The SD90MAC-H has an injection-molded plastic body with etched-metal screens, plastic handrails, and factory-installed and […]

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New model trains for the week of March 28, 2019

Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Reading Co. class T1 4-8-4 steam locomotive

Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Reading Co. class T1 4-8-4 steam locomotive HO scale locomotives Reading Co. class T1 4-8-4 steam locomotive. Chessie System Special (one road numbers), American Freedom Train (one number), Delaware & Hudson Centennial locomotive (one number), in-service scheme (two numbers), and “Iron Horse Rambles” excursion (two numbers). Also available painted black […]

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Model Railroader Readers Choice Winners

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WINNER: The HO MP15DC locomotive is available in DCC ready and DCC and sound-equipped versions. HO SCALE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE WINNER | Atlas Model Railroad Co.: HO MP15DC Locomotives RUNNER UP | ScaleTrains.com: Rivet Counter GE Tier 4 GEVo N SCALE DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE WINNER | Broadway Limited Imports: EMD F3/F7 RUNNER UP | Kato Trains: EMD […]

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