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Our sister magazine, Classic Trains, named Boston & Maine the railroad of the month for October 2019. Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include B&M steam-powered freight trains through time. […]
The Roots of Motive Power museum is inspecting this 1922-built Climax locomotive to determine if it can be restored to operation. Kyle Stockman Holmes Eureka Lumber No. 4 during its operating career. Martin E. Hanson collection WILLITS, Calif. – A rare Climax locomotive is under restoration on the West Coast. Holmes Eureka Lumber No. 4, […]
A new grant will fund placing the boiler back onto the wheels of Western Maryland Scenic No. 1309. Tishia Boggs CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland Scenic Railroad has received a John H. Emery Rail Heritage Trust grant for $10,000, which will pay to have two heavy duty cranes set the boiler of 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 […]
Western Maryland Scenic is within $10,000 of rewheeling the last Baldwin locomotive built for domestic use. Tishia Boggs CUMBERLAND, Md. – With donations to steam America’s last Baldwin from Trains readers topping $71,000, Western Maryland Scenic Railroad said Sunday it is within $10,000 of wheeling 2-6-6-2 No. 1309. “On behalf of the Western Maryland Scenic […]
Western Maryland 4-6-2 No. 207 waits with train 1 at Thomas, W.Va., on April 29, 1951. From here, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, the train will run downhill through the Black Fork Gorge to Elkins. K. F. Merlin photo […]
Gainesville Midland 2-10-0 No. 207 switches tank cars at Oconee Height, Ga., in April 1957, just northwest of Athens. The 1924 product of Baldwin was involved in a serious derailment in 1954, turning over in the incident. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
The clouds of smoke from double-headed steam locomotives illustrate a disadvantage to riding behind them — particularly with open windows. Here a troop extra rolls east of Staple Bend, Pa., on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Pittsburgh–Philadelphia main line. Several distinctive troop sleepers are in the consist. Wayne Brumbaugh photo […]
Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 cab-forward No. 4203 works hard in pusher service on Tehachapi Grade near Woodford, Calif., in August 1948. SP commissioned the specially designed locomotives to minimize crews’ exposure to tunnels in the lengthy tunnels and snowsheds on its system, a benefit that did not always apply to locomotives further back in the train. […]
A Missouri Pacific Mountain-type 4-8-2 rolls an 83-car train under the coaling tower at Gurdon, Ark., in 1952. Soon, diesels would render the locomotive, and coaling tower, obsolete. The railroad had 29 such MT-73 class engines, Nos. 5308–5316 and 5335–5344, built by Alco between 1921 and 1930. All were retired by the end of 1956. […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The R.J. Corman Group Chinese 2-10-2 steam engine, charmingly called “Old Smokey,” is being donated to the non-profit, Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. While it is bittersweet to see this locomotive go to a new home, R. J. Corman is excited to make this locomotive accessible to as many people as possible for […]
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 332 on a 2017 photo charter. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Railroad Museum is overhauling its steam program for 2020, sending locomotive parts out for rebuilding, purchasing others, and operating on a reduced schedule. The revamp follows a 2019 season that saw Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range […]
No. 1477 last operated in 2007 in Colorado, shown here on the Rio Grande Scenic near Alamosa. Jim Wrinn SUNOL, Calif. – The Pacific Locomotive Association has purchased Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744, which will be rebuilt for operation on the Niles Canyon Railway. The 1910 Baldwin-built Mogul-type locomotive operated for many years out of […]
