Model Railroader Photo of the Day: The freelanced Mokena Railroad
The freelanced Mokena Railroad is an Alco paradise. Here we see RS-3 no. 3 and RS-1 no. 1 leading a…
Read moreThe freelanced Mokena Railroad is an Alco paradise. Here we see RS-3 no. 3 and RS-1 no. 1 leading a…
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Norfolk & Western Y6 2-8-8-2 No. 2130, one of the road’s distinctive homegrown designs, works near Elliston, Va., 20 miles…
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Maintenance-of-way crews play an important role in keeping trains moving safely on the Utah Belt. Eric Brooman of St. Peters,…
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A string of single-sheathed boxcars awaits coopering at an elevator on the Milwaukee Road in Sisseton, S.Dak., in 1939. Single-sheathed…
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It’s a busy afternoon on Jay Polk’s N scale Arkansas Division layout. A pair of Missouri Pacific Alco road switchers…
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Gainesville Midland 2-8-0 No. 301 switches at Gainesville, Ga., in the 1950s. The two-story building above its stack is the…
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In the August 2025 issue of Model Railroader, we featured Art Kear’s HO scale Buffalo & Susquehanna to Wellsville, Addison…
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train no. 4, the “Southern Fast Mail,” hustles through Parmerton, Texas, on Jay Miller’s HO…
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A Colorado & Southern train climbs toward Silver Plume, Colo., ducking under Devil’s Gate bridge on the Georgetown Loop shortly…
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New York, New Haven & Hartford RS-1 no. 0667 brings a local freight past the S&J Donohue General Store in…
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A northbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac freight rolls into Alexandria, Va., almost at its destination of Potomac Yard, on Dec.…
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Soo Line’s train No. 6, powered by 4-6-2 no. 736, eases up to the depot in the fictional community of…
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