A Fairbanks-Morse H16-44 diesel locomotive, based on a Phase III prototype, is now available from Rapido Trains. The HO scale ...

A new run of the WalthersMainline HO scale EMD GP9 was recently released. Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno shares a brief history of the Electro-Motive Division road switcher and Central ...

A switcher is a railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready to be moved by a road locomotive; disassembling an arriving train; and ...

Montevideo, Minn.-based Integral dx, Inc. recently released a line of customizable Tier 4 switchers “in response to sold locomotive orders to the Navy, Army and Air Force,” according to the company, ...

The 2,000 hp GP20D Electro-Motive road-switcher locomotives were assembled by MotivePower and are equipped with Electro-Motive 170 Series engines manufactured by Caterpillar.

The switcher units are being repowered by Progress Rail in Patterson, Ga., and will join UP’s yard locomotive fleet in the Bay Area and Sacramento beginning in fall 2018. The new switchers are ...