Classy passenger locomotive paint schemes from the 1940s to the 1980s
Locomotive paint schemes In an era when passengers and passenger trains were an important part of the revenue stream, railroads…
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Locomotive paint schemes In an era when passengers and passenger trains were an important part of the revenue stream, railroads…
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Bellevue Yard It’s over 5 miles long. It’s capable of serving a hundred trains a day. It’s the center point…
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Does the world need another book about the Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge? Someone might reasonably…
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Mind-blowing facts about the GM Aerotrain By the 1950s it was clear that the passenger train was not the wave…
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How to make ‘good enough’ better: The N scale shipping house shown here isn’t finished, but I want to make…
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EMD F2 diesel locomotive For a number of years, there was a streamlined diesel road locomotive hiding in plain sight,…
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I wrote last month about working grain trains west as a young brakeman. This month’s story, entitled “Trust me,” is…
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Erie Railroad history starts, surprisingly, with a canal. “The Work of the Age” was a proclamation by New…
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For much of the first half of the 20th century, the 2-8-2 Mikado was the dominant freight locomotive of the…
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Preview Classic Trains‘ November 2023 content! Here’s a preview of what’s coming in the next month. Become a Trains.com member…
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This is a list of locomotives we wish we could have preserved, the ones that got away. Gone, in some…
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Dirt and N scale layouts: A locomotive model won’t run if current doesn’t pass from the rails to the pickup…
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