The Lake Erie, Franklin, and Clarion Railroad (reporting mark LEF) was a fifteen mile long short line that ran from a Conrail connection at Summerville, Pennsylvania, to Clarion, Pennsylvania. This shortline’s traffic included sand for Clarion’s glass making plant, glass bottles, lumber, and outbound shipments of coal. The locomotives of the railroad could be found … Read more
CMR Products has released the ATSF Beep in N Scale The “Beep” (also referred to as the SWBLW) is an individual switcher locomotive built in 1970 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at its Cleburne, Texas, workshops. Originally built as a VO1000, ATSF was hoping to follow their highly successful CF7 program, with … Read more
CMR Products has released the EMD GP35 High Hood variant. EMD produced over 1200 GP35s over the 2.5 year production run (July 1963-January 1966). The High Hood variant was purchased by Norfolk Western and Southern Railway, these workhorses have seen years of service and have been resold to a number of shortlines. This locomotive is … Read more
Just released by CMR Products in HO and N Scale. Includes the 2 Million Man Hours Injury Free decals applied to 6373 on May 21st, 1998. These special decals survived until the NS-CSX Merger. Also includes two Labor/Management Agreement decals as applied to the nose or hood sides of some locomotives to commemorate the historic … Read more