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The effort by Robert Primus to regain his seat on the Surface Transportation Board appears to have been dealt a fatal blow after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today (June 29) that President Donald ...

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Classic Trains covers North American railroads from the 1940s through the early 1970s. Includes many first person stories and period photos.

Phase one of the HO scale East Troy Industrial Park project railroad reaches a major milestone as the Trains.com crew… ...

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Once we had the L-girders built, it was time to turn our attention to adding the legs and support bracing for the layout. We constructed the legs as simple subassemblies with their own cross bracing.

There is more to understanding railroad wayside signals than simply “green means go, red means stop.” To appreciate what the signals you see along the track are telling you, you first have to grasp a ...

Watch live railroading action 24 hours per day on TrainsMag.com! Our Rochelle Web Cam captures live action as the BNSF and Union Pacific main lines cross.

Amtrak’s General Electric P42 diesel locomotive is offered in several modeling scales. The quarter is included for size comparison. Cody Grivno photo Model train scales come in a handful of commercial ...

Three Canadian National cowls, a C40-8M and two SD60Fs, wheel a northbound train around the connection at Leithton, Ill., on Sept. 3, 2015. Chris Guss Six-axle freight locomotives built with a cowl ...

Join Trains Editor Bill Stephens for a live reader Q&A at 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, moderated by Associate Editor… ...