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  • Real Railroad Sites, Meant to be Modeled, Part I : Western Allegheny Railroad

    December 21, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 1,244 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Realism doesn't have to be limited to locomotives and cars... by Tom W. Rimer Mines, a tunnel with doors, a steel trestle, Pennsy 2-8-0s, first generation diesels or 1989-vintage F-units, all sited in the mountains of Pennsylvania - th...

  • AT&SF Operations in Santa Fe, New Mexico

    November 14, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 468 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    Looking northeast towards the Santa Fe depot from Hickox Street. - Photo is by the author. by Monte Perkins    In June of 1879 the Santa Fe began using the newly constructed Raton Tunnel. Beyond lay the important city of S...

  • The "Sandy River" Today

    October 12, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 370 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    by Peter S. Barney FARMINGTON - Where the covered transfer platform stood, nothing remains but the station on th e left and the freight house in the center of the photo. Freight cars still deliver freight to the yard. - Photo by the author.FARMINGTON...

  • Burlington's "IC Tower" and interlocking at Mendota, Ill.

    June 4, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 756 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    A westbound Burlington Northern freight thunders past IC tower - and through the light of flashbulbs - as it crosses the Illinois Central Gulf tracks at Mendota, Ill. The Burlington-owned installation was more distinctive than most Midwestern towers, ...

  • Illinois Central Gulf Iowa Division - Part 1

    May 29, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 1,156 views - 2 comments - 2 likes
    BY PAUL ZACK - Photography by the author unless otherwise noted This Granger line links the Great Lakes with the Missouri River On a snowless day in February of 1967, Illinois Central train WC -2 (No. 78, Waterloo, Iowa, to Chicago) approaches Rock...

  • Milwaukee Road's Fast Mail

    May 22, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 1,409 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    An unusual glimpse at an unremarked workhorse BY WILLIAM F. STAUSS Photography by John H. Kuehl unless otherwise noted. Exuding all the intrigue and mystery its name implies, the Fast Mail carefully protects its reputation awash in a "sea" of atten...

  • The Sandusky Local

    April 5, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 643 views - 1 comment - 2 likes
    It's a brisk April 1983 morning and it's about 25 degrees with the wind chill factor as GP40 1341 is about to exit the southern most extremity of the large Sandusky yard. Photo: Jim Six prototype portfolio - Trains we'd like to model by ...