Jerry Joe Jacobson Contributed SUGARCREEK, Ohio — Jerry Joe Jacobson, shortline entrepreneur, steam preservationist, and builder of the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, died September 13 at home after a long illness. He was 74. The Age of Steam facility was Jacobson’s pride and joy, a multi-million-dollar complex built in 2012 and sprawling over […]
Model Power N scale 2-6-0 Mogul The MRC decoder and speaker are housed inside the tender. A die-cast metal weight adds extra heft. Die-cast metal construction and a factory-installed Model Rectifier Corp. (MRC) dual-mode decoder highlight this N scale 2-6-0 Mogul type from Model Power, which is now part of MRC. Built with existing tooling, […]
Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4 6317 approaches South Bend (Ind.) Union Station with a westbound freight in April 1948. A dozen years later, GTW would become one of the final Class I railroads to use steam power. Andrew Corsini photo […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s beloved Berkshire, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 is on its way from northern Indiana to make a weekend of excursions in eastern Ohio today. Excursions on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad begin Saturday, Sept. 16, and continue on Sept. 17, 23, and 24, with special […]
Chicago & North Western class D 4-4-2 395 and 4-6-2 647 head west through a cut at Wales, Wis., with an excursion train on a triangular Chicago–Milwaukee–Madison–Chicago routing in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Follow former Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 as it pulls employee and public trips on the Red River Valley & Western. The June 2017 trips commemorate the North Dakota regional railroad’s 30th anniversary. […]
Follow former Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 as it pulls employee and public trips on the Red River Valley & Western. The June 2017 trips commemorate the North Dakota regional railroad’s 30th anniversary. […]
2-6-6-2 Mallet No. 250 of the 3-foot-gauge Sumpter Valley Railway in northeast Oregon rolls a train of lumber toward the Union Pacific interchange at Baker, Ore., in 1946. The SV was abandoned in 1948, but a portion has been revived as a museum and tourist railway. Henry R. Griffiths photo […]
Marc Horovitz 1:32 scale, gauge 1, live-steam 4-4-2 Accucraft 33268 Central Ave Union City CA 94587 Price: $3,700 Website: www.accucraft.com 1:32 scale, gauge-1 model of a Pennsylvania E-6 Atlantic; locomotive-type boiler with five flues; superheater; 60 psi blowoff pressure; alcohol fired; hand pump in tender; axle pump on rear driven axle; bypass system; water glass; […]
A view of a Pennsylvania Railroad long-haul fuel tender that the T1 Trust recently purchased. Pennsylvania Railroad T1 Trust The T1 Trust has purchased a 200,000-pound Pennsylvania Railroad long-haul tender No. 6659 from the Western New York Railway Historical society that had been used behind an M1, a 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotive. Essentially, a T1 tender […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Soo Line 2-8-2 No. 1003 with a Wisconsin & Southern Geep leading, deadheads through Waukesha, Wis., Thursday morning en route to a display event in Chicago for Shriners Hospital for Children. The engine was to overnight in Janesville, Wis., and continue its journey Chicago Friday. Video by Jim Wrinn […]
Soo Line 2-8-2 No. 1003 waits at a Wisconsin & Southern siding in Slinger, Wis., to head to a Metra employee event in Chicago. Dan Steingraber HARTFORD, Wis. — Railfans are already capturing images of Soo Line 2-8-2 No. 1003 as it heads south this weekend for Shriners Hospitals for Children in Chicago. The locomotive […]
