Jr Junction Train & Hobby

Great photo of ADIX 2400 at Tupper Lake!

🇺🇸🚂 America turns 250 this year. Celebrate with a journey you'll never forget!

Join the Adirondack Railroad's Fireworks Train on July 4th and enjoy a relaxing ride into the heart of Old Forge. Step aboard for an evening of food, shopping, family fun, and a spectacular fireworks show.

Why sit in traffic when you can enjoy the view from the train? 🎆 Seats are limited and selling now!

BOOK NOW: https://adirondackrr.com/the-adirondack-fireworks-train/

Throwback Thursday! A look at the cans from the past!

Here's a Big Boy topic for conversation. Why doesn't a model manufacturer offer a "FANTASY" ALCo "Demonstrator" Big Boy model decorated as a demo? Perhaps the ALCo logo would look good on the tender. What do you think?

We are super happy to share this production sample photograph from Atlas Model Railroad Company, Inc.. All 3-Rail and 2-Rail hoppers are now sold out and on the way, expected to arrive in our store this July or August!

June 16, 2026 - M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing a die-cast Auxiliary Water Tender in both Premier O Scale and RailKing O Gauge models this coming winter. Both RailKing and Premier models will be offered in complementing paint schemes that match the previously announced 2026 Big Boy Steam Locomotives arriving in late 2026. All will be extremely limited in quantity and begin shipping to Jr Junction Train & Hobby in December 2026.

ABOUT THE AUXILIARY WATER TENDER:
Like the mythological Phoenix, these former steam tenders have escaped the scrapper’s torch and risen from the dead — not once, but three times. They were built in 1937 and assigned to the Union Pacific Railroad’s first group of 800-series Northern's, Class FEF-1. While their locomotives were retired and scrapped in the late 1950s, these tenders spent just a few months in retirement before receiving a new assignment.

With a bright new Armour Yellow paint job, they became 24,000-gallon oil tenders for the most powerful single engines ever to run on American rails: the UP’s 8,500 horsepower General Electric GTELs (gas turbine electrics, also known as "Big Blows"). Since the turbines drank Bunker C fuel oil, a thick byproduct of petroleum distillation, the tenders were insulated and equipped with steam heating coils to make the fuel warm enough to flow to the engine. When the decade of the 1960s ended, and the turbine program as well, the tenders survived again while their second set of engines went to scrap.

The tenders were nearly forgotten for almost two decades, until the crew from the UP’s Heritage Steam Fleet discovered these tenders and four of their brethren on a disconnected piece of track in Los Angeles in 1988. The six tenders had been piped together to make a large, stationary diesel fuel storage tank. But the "Steam Team" had a problem, and the tenders were the solution.

OPERATING FEATURES:
•Die-Cast Metal Body
•Stamped Metal Floors
•Metal Wheels and Axles
•Detailed 6-Wheel Trucks
•Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
•Needle-Point Axles
•Separate Metal Handrails
•Operating LED Back Up Light
•Optional Plug-In Engine Wiring Harness to Activate Proto-Coupler and Backup Light
•Operates With Proto-Sound 3.0 Locomotives