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  • Santa Fe 's Duval Unit Sulphur Train

    December 8, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 3,052 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    by Jay Miller Prototype photos by the author.The variety of the cars now operating in the unit train make it much more interesting than the units trains made up of cars of identical design. The wide variety also adds interest to the modeling projects...

  • Southern Pacific PS-2 Covered Hopper

    December 7, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 2,812 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    By T. Vanden Bosch Photos by Tom Vanden Bosch THE PROTOTYPE Southern Pacific purchased 700 PS-2 covered hoppers from the Pullman Company between December, 1956, and July, 1958. The PS-2 covered hopper was one of several "standard" fre...

  • The Great Northern Empire Builder

    December 5, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 7,053 views - 1 comment - 2 likes
    Dave Schumacher THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON GREAT NORTHERN'S "EMPIRE BUILDER" INCLUDING ITS CARS, ITS POWER, AND ITS OPERATION. THESE ARTICLES WILL APPEAR OVER THE COMING YEAR AND MORE. THE COMPLETENESS OF THIS INFO...

  • Now Available on TrainLife: The Model Railway Show Podcast!

    November 23, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 2,230 views - 4 comments - 10 likes
    TrainLife.com is thrilled to announce users may now access The Model Railway Show podcasts via TrainLife’s Audio Archives. With more than 24 shows under their belts, The Model Railway Show is dedicated to bringing model railway enthusiasts topica...

  • Editorial

    November 23, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 7,004 views - 0 comments - 5 likes
    Most of us have heard the expression: "Today is the first day of the rest of my life." The writing of this editorial brings that phrase to mind since it marks the "first day" of the beginning of the life of Prototype Modeler magazine. Th...

  • Southern Pacific's 40-foot double door box car

    November 22, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 2,787 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    the prototype modeler's notebook BY ANTHONY THOMPSON Left: Southern Pacific A50-16 No. 66532 was photographed at Portland, Ore., on May 29, 1955 -- the same month it had been reweighed, restenciled and possibly repainted at Sacramento, Calif.Right: ...

  • Prototype Portfolio: Rickety Rockets

    November 21, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 3,892 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
    If for no other reason, decline-era Rock Island passenger trains made for good train watching... and modeling! BY MIKE SCHAFER Rock Island was a pioneer in the streamliner era. The granger carrier introduced its Rocket fleet in 1937 ...

  • Lackawanna 50-ton two-bay hoppers

    November 18, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 7,357 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    BY WAYNE A. SITTNER Page 31: "The Road of Anthracite" was the Lackawanna, and to help move the hard coal, DL&W fielded 1000 of these 50-ton hoppers.Page 32: Although these cars photographed in November 1984 at Moosic, Po., All photos, Wayne A. Si...

  • Delaware & Hudson extended-vision cabooses

    November 17, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 1,940 views - 1 comment - 1 like
    BY DON CUPPOLAPHOTOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR Page 28: Will this Delaware & Hudson car represent one of the ultimate developments of the caboose? The extended-vision cupola caboose as well as all styles of waycar are threatened by new railroad labor wo...

  • Prototype Profile: North Stratford Railroad

    November 16, 2011 - posted by Tasha Oates - 4,555 views - 0 comments - 1 like
    A boxcar short line: The North Stratford Railroad These furniture movers use a GE and an Alco BY T. BRAM BAILEYPHOTOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR Page 21: Just north of Colebrook. N.H.. the southbound North Stratford train makes its way down the Connecticut...