A four-car Chicago Aurora & Elgin train heads away from the Loop as a Chicago Rapid Transit train heads inbound. Below the train are the south platforms of Chicago Union Station. Don Sims photo […]
On Chicago’s ‘L’
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Trains, May 2022
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What is the thickness of the tempered hardboard used on the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy N scale state line route layout?
Cody Grivno explains the thickness and intricacies of working with the tempered hardboard. Do you have questions about the products that we use for magazine articles or for videos, or do you want to learn more about full size trains? Send us an email: AskTrains@trains.com […]
Northbound along Howe Sound
Two GE 70-tonners lead Pacific Great Eastern’s daily passenger train north from Squamish, B.C., in about 1950, several years before the line was extended down to North Vancouver and Rail Diesel Cars replaced the secondhand stock seen here. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
NKP 759 in Virginia
High Iron Company’s Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 759 thunders down the Norfolk & Western main line with an excursion train at Natural Bridge, Va., in November 1968. Don Wood photo […]
VIA’s ‘Canadian’ restores dome access, will add second round trip in April
MONTREAL — Without fanfare, VIA Rail Canada this week began allowing passengers on the Canadian and other trains to again sit under glass in dome car seats and have access to onboard lounge facilities. Both had been off limits as a result of health restrictions imposed by the carrier and various provinces since March 2020. […]
Canadian Pacific trains involved in two derailments
Canadian Pacific trains were involved in two derailments on Saturday, one in Saskatchewan and one in Minnesota. An unknown number of cars were involved in the derailment of a train carrying corn near Drinkwater, Sask., but at least 20 cars are visible on their sides or otherwise off the track in a video posted to […]
L&N SD35s and RS3s
Two EMD SD35s and two Alco RS3s lead a freight at Emerling, just west of Loyall in southeast Kentucky in 1968. Ron Flanary photo […]
Indiana interurban
Indiana Railroad RPO-coach 375 stands under the big trainshed at the Indianapolis interurban terminal in the late 1930s, a few years before IRR ended service. W. B. Cox coll. […]
Humping at Enola Yard
A boxcar rolls though a retarder in the Pennsylvania’s vast Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa., in the early 1950s. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Where do you find specific prototype drawings again?
Cody Grivno answers another request regarding prototype drawings and how to locate them. There is an online archive to access older Model Railroader issues. Hard copies may be harder to come by. Do you need help tracking down an old drawing in MR? Or, are you looking for information on prototype trains? Send us an […]
Plan to allow second ‘Pennsylvanian’ includes 12 new or upgraded NS interlockings
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Re-laying a third track on the historic Rockville Bridge over the Susquehanna River and building a new 5-mile-long main line track through the Altoona, Pa., yard are part of a proposed Norfolk Southern-Pennsylvania Department of Transportation plan to add a second Pennsylvanian daily passenger train. In addition, the plan would install three […]
