We all know General Motors as an automaker. However, GM also has a storied past in various other industries that many might not consider. In the 1930s, GM's Electro-Motive Division began producing ...

Ride along, as Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno takes a closer look at the WalthersMainline HO scale (1:87.1) Alco RSC-2 diesel locomotive. Cody explores the prototype history of this branch ...

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

Much to delight of railway enthusiasts, diesel engines clag and snarl and belch out fumes, much to the consternation of just wanted to get to work on time. While the majority of high-speed railway ...

Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad No. 700 rolled into service in October 1947 and rumbled for decades along the twisting 1.5-mile Hudson waterfront route before the line closed in 1976. The 44-ton diesel ...

The diesel-electric locomotive has been a mainstay of freight railroads and many passenger railroads for over a century. These locomotives have proven to have a great mix of power, fuel economy, and ...

Steam Into History Inc. has a new locomotive to pull its excursion trains -- a 1950s diesel that was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The locomotive moved down the tracks recently to the station in ...