Big Boy Men: The genius behind a steam legend
The Big Boy Men William M. Jeffers, Union Pacific Railroad president, and Otto Jabelmann, vice president — research and mechanical…
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General Electric locomotives at Arcade & Attica Tucked away in far western New York State a little southeast of Buffalo…
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N scale decoder woes: This month I’m going to vent about a round of recent frustrations dealing with N scale…
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When we drove off Illinois Route 92 onto former Rock Island property recently at Silvis, I was singularly focused on…
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Lessons learned on the helix: Whether we’re talking about a model railroad or the real thing, it’s a lot harder…
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Back by popular demand! James McNab has returned to host all-new video episodes of his previous Model Railroader Video Plus…
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The EMD BL20-2 locomotive had to be an engineer’s brainchild to improve the company’s share of the locomotive market. Just…
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Saluda Grade The famous Saluda Grade in western North Carolina has seen its last train. Railbanked in December 2001, nature…
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When the Amtrak car inspector standing in the doorway of one of Bennett Levin’s majestically restored EMD E8 locomotives asked…
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Canada’s GMD1 diesel locomotive was the first to be completely designed by General Motors Diesel Ltd., Electro-Motive’s subsidiary at London,…
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Women in railroading Research deflates the idea that a woman’s place was in the home in the 19th century. In…
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The best-selling Dash-2 EMD diesel locomotives will come as no surprise to diesel locomotive fans. By the late 1960s,…
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