Metra F40PH Nos. 102 and 107 appear at Elmwood Park, Ill. Metra officials look to replace or re-manufacture much of the railroad’s aging motive power fleet. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra, Chicago’s commuter rail agency, plans to order 12 new or 15 re-manufactured locomotives in 2018, and may order dozens more if additional funding […]
Metra CHICAGO – Metra has painted a MotivePower MP36PH into the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad’s red and yellow livery in honor of CEO and Executive Director Don Orseno who is retiring this month. Orseno is retiring after 44 years in railroading and first worked for the Rock Island in the 1970s. Locomotive No. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page John Listerman’s HO scale Baltimore & Ohio model train layout is set in West Virginia in the early 1950s. Check out big steam power rolling through some of the beautiful Appalachian scenery. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page John Listerman’s HO scale Baltimore & Ohio model train layout is set in West Virginia in the early 1950s. Check out big steam power rolling through some of the beautiful Appalachian scenery. […]
Follow a Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone from Quartz Mountain to Klamath Falls at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. […]
Follow a Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone from Quartz Mountain to Klamath Falls at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. […]
Take a look at Trains Magazine’s hometown hot spot: the Duplainville, Wis., diamond! You’ll see both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific freights along with Amtrak in this September 2017 visit. […]
Take a look at Trains Magazine’s hometown hot spot: the Duplainville, Wis., diamond! You’ll see both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific freights along with Amtrak in this September 2017 visit. […]
Tour the Chicago Railroad Fair through the pages of the 1948 Official Guide Book. FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN FULL SCREEN Read about the Chicago Railroad Fair in “The Last Great Railroad Show,” an article from August 1998 Trains magazine. Download the story by clicking […]
Baltimore & Ohio’s Detroit-bound Cincinnatian, just pulling out of Deshler, Ohio, is missing its usual streamlined Pacific on this July 1956 day, but 4-6-2 5316 is a worthy substitute. Don Wood photo […]
Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 27 is at Cloquet, Minn., bound for Saginaw with empty log flats in August 1962. The 11-mile line was all-steam until 1964. A sister to this engine, D&NE 28, was recently reactivated by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Russ Porter photo […]
A man and woman stand at the center window of the ticket counter at Joliet (Ill.) Union Station in fall 1951. Note the stylized ALTON, SANTA FE, ROCK ISLAND lettering across the top, four years after the Alton was absorbed into the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
