By TIM BLACKWELL/Cowcatcher Magazine The Railroad Hobby Show 2025, one of model railroading’s top train show, is marking two industry anniversaries and will don a new look as manufacturers take their displays to new heights. The Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show kicks off the …
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Amtrak achieved an all-time ridership record in fiscal year 2024 at 32.8 million customers as demand for passenger rail service continues to grow nationwide. Trips increased a whopping 15 percent compared to 2023. Ticket and total operating revenue also posted big gains. Amtrak sold $2.5 …
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The recently released Scale Trains N-scale Tunnel Motors represent a variation of the popular Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive that conquered the rocky terrain of the Western U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s. EMD’s 3,000-horsepower, six-axle SD40-2 locomotives, built from 1972 to 1989, were best-sellers …
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A former Texas & Pacific business car is back on the rails in Texas after a 97-year journey that took it to California. The California State Railroad Museum recently gifted former T&P Business Car No. 2 to the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco. …
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Never mind that the Rapido HO Budd Slumbercoach is a strong reminder of passenger rail travel in the 1950s. You easily could see yourself in it today. Look in one of the several mirrors inside the model released earlier this year – and see your …
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UPDATE: Aug. 28, 2024 The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered binding arbitration between Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Aug. 24, sending all parties back to work. TCRC removed picket lines at Canadian Pacific Kansas City and did …
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