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I love interurban especially in N-scale! Have you looked at any of the shells available on shapeways?

Welcome to Normal scale Looks like you off to a great start, I love Mr. Rice's plans!

Both railroads are detour routes for Amtrak trains. The UP can handle the Zephyr if there is a problem with the CB&Q mainline and I think in some cases the Chief as well. The BNSF can host the Empire Builder if there is a problem with the CP between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Of course these types of detours don't happen often but they do happen every now and then.

Iowa Pacific uses it for almost everything. They also have (had?) SD90MACs in that scheme running in New Mexico.

What are you doing for the high hood? Stretch or a kit of some sort?

CNW and EMD is a great combination. Front to back: Atlas SD-9 Atlas GP35 Arnold SW-1

The New Haven was a big Alco customer.

Check out this bit of the Winchester and Western in Virginia: https://goo.gl/maps/QV4BmE2dfBD2

And now they have a SD38! http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=563101&nseq=15 Big compared to a GP38, but puny when put next to a Little Joe.

The joke about the prototypical Brunswick Green is that it's composed of a huge drum of black paint and a few drops of green paint.

Hmmm, so in 10 years I might get a 4-4-4, cool.

The SP only reached Chicago in the 1980s well after the era of local passenger service run by freight railroads.

I saw that train in Bensenville yard about a month ago. Pretty interesting.

I hope so. Then they will have to do the NH SS observations after they were converted to mid-train lounges.

Before or after it ran into the truck?

I'm disappointed that the NH coach is only in HO so far. Hopefully, a N-scale version and matching dinners, sleepers, observations, etc will not be far behind.

Really a magazine printing something there readers would like to have but likely will never have is not unusual, and certainly not restricted to MR or even model railroads in general. My problem with what MR features isn't the size of the layouts, but rather that almost all their plans assume that you will have a train room, and that the only thing this room will be used for is your layout and as such there will be no more creature comforts than room for two men to stand back to back. However, I was pleased to see that this year's MRP featured a number of designs which took other uses of the space into account.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=512939&nseq=1 Saw this on railpictures just now. The normal Yampa Valley Mail plus a GP30 helping out the PA-1.

Huh that island terminal is interesting. I had an idea for railroad into Washington DC that was going to cross the Potomac river via an island and I thought the island would be cheap land on which to build a yard.

I like it a lot over all. But that switch back to get into the glass works would be a pain in any case, but only more so given the team track on one of the leads and the number of spots at the glass works.

I thought it would be fun to have a thread highlighting the juxtaposition of steam engines and intermodal equipment. Probably the best example of this is when the Union Pacific put its Challenger on a double-stack train as a PR stunt. But there are also lesser known cases, such as this picture from Bosnia and Herzegovina http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=273880&nseq=48 So please post pictures, videos, stories as you see fit, but I am especially interested in if there were any times Freightliner trains were pulled or shunted by steam?

Perhaps, because it's a non-dynamic brake loco? Personally, I am a little sad to see it wearing CP red and not Soo red and white.

Well I measured mine. it's .9 cm from the hook for the trucks to the top, this is probably greater than the still to the top. And the chassis is .8 cm wide. So this should be enough to clear the hood. I liked to see that motor in N, it looks like a smaller version of 8-wheel motors the OE built and later sold to the NSL.

I have the N-scale version and the chassis is far too high for a steeplecab. A boxcab on the other hand could work.

Not really i have my father with me. We were just talking about how the MILW had to maintain substations every 15 miles and keep the wires up in heavy snow.