Tag: Rail
CARS & TRUCKS NEWS December 2024-February 2025
Come see what HERPA has planned for release this winter!
Kalmbach's New Railroading Books
KALMBACH MEDIA announces several new books. Some look at railroads, some railroad divisions, specific areas, locomotives, and manufacturer catalogues.
Rio Grande: Scenic Line of the World - Second Edition
WHITE RIVER PRODUCTIONS will soon release the second edition of RIO GRANDE: SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD.
HO 5250 Covered Hopper
ATLAS has released a third run of HO 5250 COVERED HOPPERS. The model features three unique body style variations to represent those changes from the 1960s into the 21st Century.
GSMRR 1702, a S-160 Class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" Type Steam Locomotive
The Great Smoky Mountain Railroad operates a S-160 USATC locomotive, No. 1702. It has been modified from its original purpose, including a tender from a Rock Island steam loco. This feature looks at the loco and S-160 for Modelers.
Z Scale 53' Evans Double Plug Door Box Car
ATLAS announces their foray into Z scale, which is 1:220. This 53' Evans Double Plug Door Box Car is their first rolling stock model.
Nevada Northern Engine House
To maintain their first generation Alcos and 100+ year-old steam locomotives, the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, Nevada operates this engine house. In 2007 I toured this fantastical realm of railroad reverence.
Nevada Northern No.40
A place you can go to run a 100+ year-old steam locomotive - yeah, right! But it is not a myth and you do not have to capture a unicorn to find the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, Nevada. In 2007 I partook of this fantastical realm of railroad reverence...
Rachel, 2-4-4T Steam Locomotive
Rachel, a Vulcan Iron Works 1920 2-4-4T steam loco.
Railroad Grain Elevator, Corrugated, Layout Scenes 5
Our Northern Plains correspondent HARV provides us with many scenes useful to model railroaders, and other model genres. Here he spotted this classic Railroad Grain Elevator in Wyoming.
Scene Around the Railroad, Layout Scenes 4
Come look and appreciate the wonderful and weird colors and formations of scenery seen along railroads.
Rail Car Truck Muck, Layout Scenes 3
This feature presents some colors of real rail car wheel weathering.
Track Colors, Layout Scenes 2
What color is railroad track? What color ISN'T it? Come look.
I Was Workin' On the Railroad, Layout Scenes 1
Ever wanted to see what a gandydancer does? Once upon a time I helped out on the Doe River Gorge Railroad, which operates along a few miles of the storied East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad, the fabled "Tweetsie." Back on the old site I...