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ROANOKE, Va. – World famous Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 will pull public excursions four weekends between April and June in its home state of Virginia and North Carolina, the Virginia Museum of Transportation and North Carolina Transportation Museum announced Monday. The announcement ends weeks of speculation as to the extent of NS’s […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – William E. Griffin Jr., 71, retired personnel director of the Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac and later CSX, died Tuesday. A railroad employee for more than 30 years, Griffin was also a rail historian who wrote several books about railroads in his native Virginia and predecessors of CSX. Among the titles by Griffin […]
Trains Magazine brings you the story of the 20th Century Limited, one of the most famous passenger trains in America. This New York-Chicago train was the way to travel between the America’s two largest and most important cities in the first half of the 20th century. Don’t miss this exclusive DVD featuring historical footage, photos, […]
Three Pullman Rail Journeys cars pass through the drawbridge at Pass Manchac, La., on Nov. 2, 2014, on the rear of Amtrak’s City of New Orleans. Amtrak and Pullman Rail Journeys have yet to come to an agreement for 2016 trips. Bob Johnston A meal typical of Pullman Rail Journeys: luncheon shrimp salad with potato […]
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Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 No. 611 pulls a photographers’ special at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in May 2015. Jim Wrinn If a locomotive can mend broken hearts, Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 does so with caressing steam. Fans of the locomotive have long said this railroad-built Class J is […]
Norfolk Southern No. 4000 is a AC44C6M locomotive converted from No. 8799 a D9-40C unit built by GE in 1995. To recognize its conversion, the unit sports a new blue and light gray paint scheme. Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southern Nos. 4000 and 4001 pose outside the paint shop in Chattanooga, Tenn., for their first portrait together. […]
CSX No. 3251 is a GE-built ET44AC. James D. Moore Locomotive builders greeted 2015 with a fleet of engines ready, or being tested for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Tier 4 standards. The standards were announced in 2008 with a goal of reducing particle emissions by 90 percent and nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions […]
No. 611 pulls a photographers’ special at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in May 2015. Jim Wrinn ROANOKE, Va. – Norfolk Southern says the railroad has “fulfilled the program’s goals, and we are scaling back now” in regards to its vastly popular 21st Century Steam Program. In an article published in The Roanoke Times on […]
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Dan Ranger CHAMA, N.M. — Steam locomotive expert, tourist railroad manager, and railway preservation advocate Dan Ranger died Friday at his home in Chama, N.M., He was 77. Ranger was executive director of the Tourist Railway Association Inc. in the late 1990s and 2000s, and had retired as general manager of the Cumbres & Toltec […]
