Five locomotive paint schemes only a mother could love
Locomotive paint schemes Nobody plans to create a less-than-stellar locomotive paint scheme, but at times, anyone’s best efforts can produce…
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How to get the shot It has happened to all of us sooner or later. We plan a train day…
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Amtrak police dogs More than 50 police dogs serve and protect Amtrak’s trains and stations throughout the United States. From…
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I suspect most writers like me live and die with Google. I’ve come to depend on its online search capabilities…
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The Hills Line host James McNab knows a good thing when he sees it! That’s why he’s eager to form…
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See what you’re really modeling: Does this ever happen to you? You’re driving down a street you’ve gone down a…
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Derailments of the curious kind: Several months ago, my operations chief Gordy Spiering and I were orbiting a couple trains…
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An N scale loading ramp for Bakersfield: In 1979, Jim FitzGerald, remembered fondly by many of us N scalers as…
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Tips for Body-mounted couplers on auto racks: When N scale got its start in Europe in the 1960s, its originators…
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Why horseshoe curves work better in N scale: Caliente, Calif., is a little town on the Union Pacific between Bakersfield…
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SD9043MACs Indiana Rail Road is in the process of replacing its core motive power. The backbone of its road fleet…
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Railfanning in North Dakota North Dakota is usually synonymous with the high plains of flat, rolling fields of wheat, corn,…
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