Scale Train Drawings
Welcome to the Trainiax drawings page! This is a collection of drawings that I have been working on since late 2000.
Updates
2026-04-02
I'm often surprised where my own drawing momentum will lead me. I had a Trinity 3281 cu-ft hopper drawing that had been sitting around since late 2024, so I decided to finish it. I then discovered that many components were similar to the larger-capacity hoppers, like the Trinty 5461 - which I then discovered shared a common design with the 5791, 6351 and 6541 cu-ft cars. Ergo, many Trinity hopper car drawings!
Ongoing updates
There are several minor revisions currently affecting a large number of drawings. Rather than attempt to fix them all at once, I'm gradually revising the drawings when I work on a particular model or series. These details include:
- Line glitch in Timken wheel bearings (started years ago; mainly GE units remain)
- Type F / H couplers (started 2025-11)
- Gyralite shade size (started 2025-11)
- EMD long hood headlight, numberboard and circular hatch housing height (started 2026-01)
- Nathan K5LA horn bell layering (started 2026-02)
Drawings
Drawing Search
Undecorated Painted
Other drawings
- Road vehicles, Lineside Structures and Equipment
- Early scales:
I haven't yet incorporated all the 1:55 drawings into the drawing search pages above. Only rolling stock drawings remain to be done:
Resources
Other Pages
Requests and Progress
Site Information
- Website Building—How I created this site
- Drawing Accuracy—How accurate are the drawings?
- Drawing History—Early drawing history and a detailed look at what's behind the various scales
- Creating the Drawings—The making of the drawings behind the scenes
Locomotive Information
About the Drawings
- All of my drawings, painted or undecorated, are of real locomotives and rolling stock.
- All of my completed drawings are online, and they exist only as they appear here; I have no higher-resolution or vector versions.
- I do take requests for new drawings. I can never guarantee their completion, but I try to fill them out regularly.
Acknowledgements
My drawings would not be possible without the extensive contributions from many site viewers sharing photos, diagrams, phase details or corrections, and I am very belatedly publicly sharing my gratitude to those who have helped. (If you've sent me stuff and you're not on the list, please remind me!)
A special thank-you to
- Brian Bennett - who shared a supremely detailed SD40-2 roster with me that formed the basis for my drawings and phase descriptions of the entire EMD Dash-2 series
- Bruce Bridges - who has helped with innumerable roster details and spotting features, and without whom my drawings would contain at least 3 times as many errors or omissions
- Nick O'Dell - who shared extensive CSXT paint and lettering information and many locomotive detail photos
- Jones Rana - who sent me a huge collection of reference photos and drawings, including many ALCO mechanical diagrams
- James Walton - who forwarded a collection of nearly 2,000 detail photos that were invaluable in drawing several Canadian locomotive models
Thanks also to
- Philip Bushdiecker
- Jon Clark
- Dave Queener
- Bishop Smith
- Wayne Snyder
- Joseph J. Thomson
- Fernando Uribe
- Nick Wilson
Terms of Use
The drawings are freely available for personal use. For any forms of non-personal use (such as display on other websites) I would ask the following:
- Please provide credit in some way, such as my name and/or the URL of the Trainiax site.
- Please indicate if a drawing has been modified, such as adding to or modifying the label under the drawing. I count on unmodified labels to be indicative of my original drawings. (If you would like to match the original text, it's Arial 10 or 12 pt).
Check out the Links page for websites with other drawings, including modified versions of the drawings posted on this site.