Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
CSX C40-8W 7329 still in Conrail Quality paint
A decade after its official demise, Conrail lives on!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
GP30 RDMT Road Slug 2328
CSX GP30 Road Slug 2328 was built as L&N 1029 in the spring of 1963; she's lost her innards, but 40+ years in Class 1 service isn't too bad.
HO RTR GP30 w/DCC, B&O/Capital #6918
CSX (ex D&S, ex SCL) GP38-2 2557
CSX GP38-2 2557 started out life as Durham & Southern #2001 "Bull Durham 2" and later became SCL 2557 before being absorbed into CSX. The former D&S engines are/were the only GP38-s on CSX without dynamic brakes, I believe.
HO RTR GP38-2, CSX by Bachmann Industries
N GP38-2 Loco CSX by Wm. K. Walthers
HO TrainMan GP38-2, CSX/YN3 #2795 by Atlas Model Railroad
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Baldwin Narrow-Gauge 4-4-0 "American"
Illustrated Catalogue of Narrow-gauge Locomotives By Baldwin Locomotive Works, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation, Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co
Narrow-Gauge Locomotives The Baldwin Catalog of 1877
Colorado's Narrow Gauge Railroad DVD
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Conrail 250-ton Crane at Strasburg PA
Former Erie RR 250-ton Industrial Brownhoist crane on display at the RR Museum of PA
HO RTR 250-Ton Crane w/Tender, CR #45210
Railway Maintenance Equipment: The Men and Machines That Keep the Railroads Running
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co Brill car
Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. #76, a Brill Center-Door car, was built in 1926 and roamed the Philadelphia trackage for fifty years. It currently runs in Scranton PA with the Electric City Trolley Museum
Philadelphia Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail)
History of the J. G. Brill Company (Series: Railroads Past and Present)
Barber Asphalt Company 8,000-gallon tank car
Barber Asphalt Company 8,000-gallon tank car, built in the early 1900s by the German American Car Company; retains arch bar trucks
Walthers - 40' Tank car Gulf - Ready to Run
D&LW converted troop sleeper
Just barely visible is former DL&W 3621, built by Pullman during WWII as a troop sleeper and later acquired by the Lackawanna for use as a work car. Conrail inherited the car, and later donated it to Steamtown.
Walthers - Express Box Car (Rebuilt Troop Sleeper) - Assembled (2-pack) HO - Erie Lackawanna
Long Island RR Rotary Snowplow
Showing its 110 years, former Long Island Rotary Snowplow 193 at Steamtown, with its former PRR steam locomotive tender. Built in 1898, this unit was active until 1965, and is the only known eastern US rotary to survive.
HO Rotary Snowplows
New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson tender
Perhaps the last surviving large relic of the New York Central's fleet of 4-6-4 Hudsons, X5313 went along with its locomotive to the TH&B; the locomotive itself was scrapped in 1954, but the tender was converted to a steam generator car, surviving in that form for decades before being retired to Steamtown.
Sounds of Steam Locomotives, No. 4: The Great New York Central - Hudson, Mohawk, Niagara MP3 download
New York Central, Hudson Type 20x30 poster
HO Hudson
Canadian National 4-6-4T Baltic Tank
Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1914, Canadian National #47 is a 4-6-4T Baltic Tank built for commuter service, with an extended frame for carrtying its own fuel and water; this configuration made for a shorter locomotive that was easier to turn. Original serving with the Grand Trunk, #47 was later absorbed into the CN, where it ran until 1959.
#47 is the only surviving Baltic Tank in the US, as later American-built 4-6-4Ts of the Central of new Jersey and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company were all scrapped. However, two other examples remain in Canada.
Guide to North American Steam Locomotives (Railroad Reference, No 8)
Brooks-Scanlon Corp 2-6-2 Prairie
Brooks-Scanlon Corp #1 is a 2-6-2 built by Baldwin in 1914, and used for logging. This locomotive was an early addition to Steamtown, being purchased in 1962.
In the US, the 2-6-2 Prairie evolved as a more powerful outgrowth of the 2-6-0 Mogul.
HO RTR 2-6-2 Prairie w/Tender & Smoke, UP #1836
HO RTR 2-6-2 Prairie w/Tender & Smoke, NYC #1905
Canadian National 3254 S-1-b Mikado
Canadian National 3254 was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company for the Canadian Government Railway. It quickly became part of the merged Canadian National, where it served hauling freight for forty years.For much of the 1980s, it ran on the Gettysburg Railroad before going to Steamtown.
Canadian National Steam in Color Volume 1: East
HO Spectrum USRA 2-10-2 Light w/DCC, CN #4209
Friday, November 14, 2008
NATX 4753 tank car walk-around
NATX 4753 was built in 1925 as a twin-dome tank car, and is now on display at Steamtown in Scranton.
HO RTR 30K Gal Ethanol Tank, NATX
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Single-Driver Locomotive for the Flint & Pere Marquette
From an original 1894 article, in the public domain
Friday, October 31, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
CSX AC6000CW locomotive
The AC6000CW was the culmination of GE's efforts in the horsepower race of the 1990s, featuring a GE 7HDL16 prime mover rated at 6,000hp. This made the new locomotives only slightly less powerful than the EMD DDA40X double diesels of two decades previous, but the new powerplants were far from reliable, and some Union Pacific units were built with the less powerful 7FDLs.
CSX bought the first production AC6000CWs, and for a time derated their engines (via software limits) to improve reliability; they have since been brought back up to their original rating, save for a single FDL-engined example. CSX 5012 is seen here leading an earlier 600-series unit eastbound towards Pittsburgh in 2005.
HO RTR AC4400
Friday, October 24, 2008
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