Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway history remembered
Although the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway employed several nicknames — “Dixie Line,” “Nashville Road,” and “Lookout Mountain Route”…
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Prior to the Hudsons, Mountains, and Northerns, the 4-6-2 Pacific-type was celebrated as THE passenger locomotive at the turn of…
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A train with no name… With the world changing at an accelerating pace, there’s something comforting about standing on a…
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Enjoy a glimpse of 1930s-era logging operations on Sam Foster’s 6 x 40-foot On30 (1:48) scale model railroad. Tall timber…
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Calling all railfans… As railfans, most of us flock to the railroad’s hotter, more congested lines. And why not? If…
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Orphan Trains The orphan train story does not involve a specific train consist, locomotive, route, or even schedule. The story…
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Down memory lane Down memory lane: Ever find yourself bumping into the same locomotive over the decades? I have. For…
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Roosevelt Road used to be ‘the’ Chicago railfan road. On less than a mile of viaducts just south of downtown,…
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Them’s the breaks Late afternoon on Jan. 30, 2007, my conductor and I were called for the SSEALPC — a…
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois locomotives served the road well through many decades of operation. C&EI was a coal-hauling…
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Amtrak GP40 diesel locomotives came in two flavors: eight former GO Transit GP40TCs acquired in October 1988 and 15 straight…
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For the single rail-served factory on Model Railroader magazine’s 2024 project layout, the HO scale Free-Mo module Freemont Mills, Steve…
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