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Train Topic: History
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad remembered
Northern Maine’s Bangor & Aroostook Railroad was a relative latecomer to the American railroad map, being organized under the General Laws of Maine on Feb. 13, 1891. There had been earlier efforts, but this one succeeded in linking northern Maine to the central Maine city of Bangor and the country’s rail network. First was the […]
Greatest Moments in Model Railroading
Greatest Moments Greatest Moments Note: This speech was written by Andy Sperandeo and presented to the South Texas Division/San Antonio Model Railroad Association NMRA’s convention on June 23, 2006. We discovered these documents during some office clean up recently, and thought our readers would enjoy reading them. Good evening everyone. I’m very glad to be […]
Dr. Roy Clarkson, author of books on West Virginia lumber railroads, dies at 95
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Dr. Roy B. Clarkson, a well-known botanist and forest biologist at West Virginia University and author of two books dealing with West Virginia lumber railroads, died Sept. 12, 2022. He was 95. Clarkson, originally from Cass, W.Va., published many books, articles, and papers during his career in science, but is known in […]
The first Hudson comes to life
Brand-new New York Central J-1a 5200 — the first of the road’s famous fleet of Hudsons, and the first example of the 4-6-4 wheel arrangement in North America — steams through a ceremonial banner at Alco’s Schenectady plant on February 14, 1927. NYC photo […]
Mid-Continent Museum to restore early EMC gas-electric car to operating condition
NORTH FREEDOM, Wis. — Mid-Continent Railway Museum will restore Montana Western gas-electric railcar No. 31 — built in 1925 by Electro-Motive Corp. — to operating condition, the museum has announced. The car, one of the oldest surviving pieces of equipment built by Electro-Motive, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in August, was built for Great Northern […]
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum receives $200,000 grant for Pullman car restoration
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum has received a $200,000 grant from a National Park Service program toward restoration of the museum’s 1925 Pullman sleeping car, the Maitland. The Southern Railway donated the 12-section, one-drawing-room car to the museum in 1965 upon its retirement from a career in both World War II and […]
Ontario Northland releases ‘Every Child Matters’ unit
NORTH BAY, Ontario — Ontario Northland Railway unveiled its “Every Child Matters” locomotive, GP38-2 No. 1808, on Monday, Sept. 12, at its North Bay shop facility, in a ceremony attended by local First Nations representatives and government officials. The “Every Child Matters” initiative is part of Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, also known […]
Kentucky Steam acquires tubes, flues for No. 2716 restoration from Indiana museum
IRVINE, Ky. — The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. will purchase a full set of boiler tubes and flues from the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in North Judson, Ind., for Kentucky Steam’s restoration of C&O 2-8-4 No. 2716. The collaboration, made possible through funds from the John H. Emery Rail Heritage Trust, will make use of […]
Visiting Rapido – Bus and Train Tour
Visiting Rapido – Bus and Train Tour | When David Popp and Ben Lake recently traveled north of the Canadian Border to explore all that’s new with Jason Shron, President of Rapido Trains Inc., they were treated to a special sidetrack trip. On their way to see what new N and HO scale models Rapido […]
Vintage New York subway equipment set for Parade of Trains
NEW YORK — Equipment from New York Transit Museum’s collection of vintage subway cars will be operation Sept. 17-18 at the Brighton Beach station in Brooklyn as part of the museum’s Parade of Trains, offering round-trip shuttle rides with a regular subway admission. The Parade of Trains will operate each day from 11 a.m. to […]
Fox River Trolley Museum to host photo event celebrating CTA’s 75th anniversary
SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. — The Fox River Trolley Museum will hold a special photo event on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Chicago Transit Authority, featuring passenger and work equipment that operated in Chicago before coming to the museum. The event will feature posed photography opportunities of the museum’s CTA […]
