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Leaving Kamloops, B.C., 14 hours late after laying over the previous evening, VIA’s westbound 21-car Canadian snakes around the curve at Kissick, B.C., 9 miles west of Kamloops, on May 17, 2026. The ...

Model Railroading Layouts, Tips, Techniques, & More – Plus Online Benefits: Track Plan Database & Workshop Webcam ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. rail traffic was once again up for the week ending July 11, 2026, but the recent surge… ...

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Getting started in model railroading can be a daunting task, even for those with experience and knowledge regarding prototype (i.e. real-life) railroading. We’ve been asked in the past what we at ...

A Union Pacific train with UP and Norfolk Southern power crosses UP’s diamond with NS at Momence, Ill., on April 10, 2022. David Lassen Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first ...

Atlas Model Railroad Co., Inc., 378 Florence Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205, has announced two patriotic-themed SD40-2 diesel locomotives as part of the Premier line. The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway No.

BNSF and Union Pacific trains meet at the Santa Fe Junction Flyover in Kansas City, Mo., in 2018. BNSF is urging regulators to reject the revised UP-Norfolk Southern merger application as incomplete.

Amtrak Amfleet cars were the first of the National Passenger Railroad Corporation’s own passenger cars in the 1970s. They were and are, useful, flexible cars that have served the railroad for decades.

Rio Grande dome car Silver Sky brings up the markers at Grand Junction, Colo., in March 1974. Mel Lawrence, George W. Hamlin collection Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union ...

Technological advancements in rail diesel propulsion came together in the Electro-Motive Division FT — “the diesel that did it” — with enough success to move motive power away from steam for good.