All through April 2021, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history, heritage, and grit of the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railroad. Please enjoy this photo gallery of DM&IR locomotives selected from the files of Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library. Only from Classic Trains! […]
Zone & Region: Midwest
Soo Line 1003
The 2-8-2 puts on a rare appearance on Wisconsin & Southern in November 2020 […]
Soo Line 1003
The 2-8-2 puts on a rare appearance on Wisconsin & Southern in November 2020 […]
Ohio’s Ashland Railway
A short line between Mansfield and Fostoria, Ohio, keeps a former Baltimore & Ohio line busy […]
Ohio’s Ashland Railway
A short line between Mansfield and Fostoria, Ohio, keeps a former Baltimore & Ohio line busy […]
Age of Steam Roundhouse
The biggest roundhouse built in the U.S. since the 1950s holds a treasure trove of steam power […]
Age of Steam Roundhouse
The biggest roundhouse built in the U.S. since the 1950s holds a treasure trove of steam power […]
Monticello Railway Museum debuts RS1325 at Throttle Time event (video)
MONTICELLO, Ill. — Illinois & Midland RS1325 No. 31 made its operating debut at the Monticello Railway Museum during this past weekend’s sold-out Throttle Time event, pulling a vintage freight train while run by “student engineers” who purchased a ticket for the opportunity to run the rare locomotive. The museum acquired the RS1325, one of […]
Digest: C&NW historical society archives coming to Illinois Railway Museum
Chicago & North Western Historical Society archives bound for IRM The archives of the Chicago & North Western Historical Society are bound for the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Ill. The archives will be located at a new building, to be formally known as the C&NWHS Archives Research Center, to be located on the museum’s […]
Wide open spaces
Wide open spaces Great Northern 2-8-2 No. 3117 is westbound at Richmond, Minn., in 1955. The railroad’s territory was sparsely populated, with one city over 100,000 between its endpoints. Photo by James Kreuzberger; Steve Glischinski collection […]
Hoosier Valley museum to restore ‘decapitated’ locomotive
NORTH JUDSON, Ind. — The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum will restore a Monon SW1 which was badly damaged while being moved by truck in 2018. The museum will restore Monon DS-50, which had its cab destroyed when it hit a low bridge in Logansport, Ind. [see “Monon’s first diesel decapitated …,” Trains News Wire, Dec. […]
Support grows for Watco purchase of CN’s former Wisconsin Central branches
WASHINGTON – Support is pouring in for Canadian National’s proposed sale of former Wisconsin Central branches to shortline operator Watco. A major shipper group, a current shipper, railroad associations in Wisconsin and Michigan, a county economic development agency, and the Badger State’s largest business group have all urged federal regulators to expedite review of the […]