‘Texas’ locomotive returns to Atlanta home May 3 NEWSWIRE

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The Texas is raised for transport to North Carolina on Dec. 21, 2015. The cosmetically restored locomotive will return to Atlanta later this year. North Carolina Transportation Museum ATLANTA — The restored 1856 Texas locomotive, an important relic of Atlanta’s early railroading days and well-known for its pivotal role in 1862’s Great Locomotive Chase, will […]

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Arizona museum to acquire sugar beet car NEWSWIRE

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The Southern Pacific sugar beet car that Arizona Railway Museum volunteers are looking to save. Arizona Railway Museum website CHANDLER, Ariz. — The Arizona Railway Museum is raising funds to move a former Southern Pacific sugar beet car from California to the museum. The car is an ex-SP 40-foot wood-sided gondola used exclusively for sugar […]

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Museum supporters, historical society dig into campaign to preserve five Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives NEWSWIRE

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No. 460 rests outside in November 2016. Robert Feeley STRASBURG, Pa. – The Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society have raised $114,000 as part of a $250,000 campaign to preserve five Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives. The locomotives are slated for display in a new roundhouse to […]

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Nickel Plate Road 765 group to take on a NKP Mikado NEWSWIRE

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Nickel Plate Road 2-8-2 No. 624 as it appears in Hammond, Ind. The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society is slated to preserve the locomotive and possibly restore it to operating condition. Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The sight of two gleaming, steaming Nickel Plate Road freight locomotives at one place and […]

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Trains award to gussy-up Alco’s glamour girl NEWSWIRE

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Santa Fe Alco PA No. 59L at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, is the 2016 winner of the Trains annual preservation award. Museum of the American Railroad SAVANNAH, Ga. — Trains magazine has awarded its $10,000 2016 Preservation Award to the Museum of the American Railroad for the restoration of the […]

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Florida East Coast engine to steam again NEWSWIRE

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Florida East Coast No. 148 heads east on a Union Pacific train near Commerce City, Colo., on Oct. 18. Chip Sherman Florida East Coast Pacific-type 4-6-2 No. 147 is a sister locomotive to No. 148 shown in this undated photograph. Workers at ALCO Richmond, in Richmond, Va., built both locomotives for passenger service. C.W. Witbeck […]

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UPDATE: Age of Steam buys Yreka Western locomotive NEWSWIRE

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Yreka Western 2-8-2 No. 19 as it appeared before today’s sheriff sale in Yreka, Calif. Kyle Stockman REDDING, Calif. — Yreka Western 2-8-2 No. 19 has a new owner after a sheriff’s sale today in northern California. Representatives from the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio, bid up the price on the embattled steam […]

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Trains Presents: ‘Mississippi’ saved

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Join Trains Magazine Editor Jim Wrinn for a first look at the Mississippi – the oldest horizontal boiler steam locomotive in the U.S. The locomotive, purchased by Gulf & Ohio Railways owner Pete Claussen, is featured in the November 2016 issue! Only from www.TrainsMag.com! […]

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Trains Presents: ‘Mississippi’ saved

Mississippi horizontal boiler steam locomotive

Join Trains Magazine Editor Jim Wrinn for a first look at the Mississippi – the oldest horizontal boiler steam locomotive in the U.S. The locomotive, purchased by Gulf & Ohio Railways owner Pete Claussen, is featured in the November 2016 issue! Only from www.TrainsMag.com! […]

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