Norfolk & Western No. 611 is back in steam and Trains was there to capture every moment. See this preview video of a longer DVD we are creating to commemorate this historic return to glory for the greatest passenger steam locomotive ever built. Only from Trains! […]
Magazine: Trains Magazine
Tracks Ahead: Season 9 – Fillmore & Western Railway
This PBS Tracks Ahead segment visits the Fillmore & Western Railway, home of the “movie trains”, located in Fillmore, Calif. The operating collection of railroad equipment and various sites have been featured in numerous cinematic presentations. […]
N&W 611 sees action as freight hauler NEWSWIRE
N&W No. 611 passes through Dry Fork, Va., with a short freight train as part of a June 15 ferry move. Kevin Gilliam Newly restored Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 No. 611 was back in action Monday, in somewhat unexpected fashion: as a freight hauler. After trips for the Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam […]
Runaway coal truck closes NS Pittsburgh Line NEWSWIRE
A runaway coal truck temporarily closed Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Line in Summerhill, Pa. Erik Rasmussen SUMMERHILL, Pa. – A runaway coal truck crashed onto the NS Pittsburgh Line Friday, damaged two tracks and stopping main line rail traffic. At approximately 3 p.m. on June 12, a coal-hauling dump truck lost its brakes while travelling southeast […]
New York MTA opens subway simulator to public NEWSWIRE
Visitor Peter Diamond runs the simulator. Joseph M. Calisi NEW YORK – Always wanted to operate a subway train? Here is your chance. Subway fans now have the opportunity to operate a first-of-its-kind subway simulator. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has created a realistic train simulator experience that the average railfan can now enjoy. The simulator […]
Page County Railway Museum opens in N&W Luray depot NEWSWIRE
LURAY, Va. – The town of Luray, working in cooperation with the Page County Railroad Club, has opened the Page County Railway Museum in the former Norfolk & Western depot. The project was more than 10 years in the making. It features exhibits tracing the history of railroading in Page County, with items such as […]
NS donates ‘Big John’ hopper car to Tennessee museum NEWSWIRE
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Norfolk Southern has donated former Southern Railway “Big John” covered hopper car No. 8744 to the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum. The car has a connection to Tennessee, as the Big John hoppers were maintained during the first half of their careers at the now gone Coster Shop in Knoxville. It will […]
Delaware-Lackawanna signs five-year operating agreement extension NEWSWIRE
Delaware-Lackawanna SCRANTON, Pa. – The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad has reached a five-year operating lease agreement extension with the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority. The agreement covers more than 90 miles of track in Lackawanna, Wayne, Monroe, and Northampton counties in northeast Pennsylvania. At its May meeting, the Authority’s board voted unanimously to extend the agreement, set […]
NS rolls out repainted UP Centennial NEWSWIRE
Norfolk Southern ALTOONA, Pa. – Norfolk Southern has rolled former Union Pacific DDA40X No. 6944 out of its Altoona paint shop Friday. NS performed the work under agreement with the St. Louis Museum of Transportation, the locomotive’s owner. The locomotive left its Missouri home in July 2014. The twin-engine, 6,600 horsepower Electro-Motive Division locomotives were […]
Fundraiser aims to move, restore last L&NE diesel locomotive NEWSWIRE
The locomotive at Emporia, Ind., in March 2011. Kermit Geary Jr. KUTZTOWN, Pa. – The Lehigh & New England Railroad Preservation Society, in collaboration with the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, have launched an online fundraising campaign to transport and restore Lehigh & New England Alco S2 No. 611, the only […]
Lake State receives first GP40-3 slug set NEWSWIRE
Kevin Burkholder SAGINAW, Mich. – Michigan regional railroad Lake State Railway has taken delivery of its first GP40-3/road slug set manufactured by Metro East Industries Inc. and equipped with the ZTR NEXSYS™ III-I system. With a slug set, one locomotive, known as the “mother,” supplies power to an attached unit lacking a prime mover, the […]
Norfolk & Western No. 611 roars back onto the main line, but wye is a problem NEWSWIRE
No. 611 moves along at Duke, just north of the Yadkin River bridge between Rowan and Davidson counties in North Carolina, on its May 21 test run from Spencer to Greensboro and return. Jim Wrinn SALISBURY, N.C. – Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 made a triumphant return to the main line Thursday, showering fans […]
