Ride along on a trip around Dan Flanagan’s Great Northern Pacific HO scale layout. He mounted a GoPro camera on a flatcar at boxcar height, with a caboose roof just under the lens, and put it at the end of a freight pulled by a 2-8-0 Consolidation. […]
Mid-1950s Southern Pacific trains are featured in this edition of Extreme Trains: a 106 car mixed freight with three cab forward helpers; The City of San Francisco streamliner with Alco PAs; and a PFE refrigerator train with two cab forward locomotives. Video by Bill Rogers. […]
Take a look at Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, with Trains correspondent Hayley Enoch and museum President Bob LaPrelle. You’ll learn what makes the Lone Star State’s lone preserved Big Boy special! For more Big Boy video, check out Big Boy: On the Road to Restoration, […]
Take a look at Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, with Trains correspondent Hayley Enoch and museum President Bob LaPrelle. You’ll learn what makes the Lone Star State’s lone preserved Big Boy special! For more Big Boy video, check out Big Boy: On the Road to Restoration, […]
Wheelset from B&M No. 3666. Kittery Historical and Naval Museum, Kim Sanborn KITTERY, Maine — A wheel from a long-lost Boston & Maine steam locomotive that fell off a bridge and into a river in 1939 is now on display in Maine. The wheel off of B&M No. 3666 was put on display at the […]
An overview of the Ravenna car shops and rail yard facilities that will become the future site of the Kentucky rail heritage center and home to Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716. Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. IRVINE, Ky. — Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716 will be the centerpiece of a new rail heritage partnership […]
Duluth & Northeastern No. 14 fills up at Cloquet, Minn., in 1958. William D. Middleton Q How did railroads in northern states keep water in tanks from freezing in the winter? Were the tanks heated and insulated, or filled just before use? – James Alain, Chassell, Mich. A Many water towers in colder climates had […]
See color film footage of Mobile & Gulf No. 97 at work from the Sunday River Productions program Steaming Through the Deep South. […]
See color film footage of Mobile & Gulf No. 97 at work from the Sunday River Productions program Steaming Through the Deep South. […]
No. 1361 is runs northbound on the Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad pulling into Tyrone, Pa., to load passengers for a round trip to Bellefonte in July 1987. Steven J. Brown ALTOONA, Pa. – Preservationist Bennett Levin announced Thursday a new push to restore famed Pennsylvania Railroad K4s steam locomotive No. 1361 to operation after […]
CLEVELAND — Officers and leaders of the restoration of Reading Co. 4-8-4 T1 No. 2100 speak about what it takes to restore a classic steam locomotive from the 20th century. More information is available online. […]
Big Boy No. 4014 will be in Ogden on May 10, 2019. This photo was made in Ogden in May 2014 as the dead locomotive was moved from California to Cheyenne for restoration. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Union Pacific confirmed Thursday that Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 will be in Ogden, Utah, exactly […]
