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Kids Wish Network wish recipient Jeremiah McCain is shown on the radio while in the cab of EMD diesel at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum. Kids Wish Network CALERA, Ala. — It was “All aboard!” for Jeremiah McCain and 25 of his closest family and friends during his wish at the Heart of Dixie […]
LS&I 22 will be housed in a building to be dedicated Saturday at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. DRS NORTH FREEDOM, Wis. — Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad No. 22, a 1910 Alco (Pittsburgh) 2-8-0, has been cosmetically restored and is on display in the new Laurence Dorcy Building at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. A gift from Dorcy, […]
ORBISONIA, Pa. — The first East Broad Top Railroad photo event in nearly a decade will offer afternoon and evening shots of a 1918 steam locomotive on the EBT turntable and of the Pennsylvania narrow-gauge railroad’s 1927 gas-electric unit in multiple locations around the Rockhill Furnace yard. Antique vehicles and costumed crew members will be […]
This Milwaukee Road F7, in Monon colors, went unsold at the abandoned equipment auction in Noblesville, Ind. Ozark Mountain NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — The majority of the pieces of rolling stock from the former collection of the Indiana Transportation Museum went unsold at auction this week, which could lead to some of them meeting the scrapper’s […]
FEC 4-6-2 No. 113 is one of 20 pieces of rolling stock available for sale from Florida’s Gold Coast Railroad Museum. Trains: Jim Wrinn MIAMI — Does anyone want to buy a steam locomotive, cab units, or passenger cars in 2019? At Florida’s venerable Gold Coast Railroad Museum, which announced last spring it was slimming […]
Two museums are engaged in a dispute over the restoration and maintenance of Monson No. 3. Stephen Hussar FARMINGTON, Me. — Two of Maine’s narrow-gauge railroad museums are squaring off in a lawsuit with one alleging the other reneged on a 15-year agreement that allowed it to use Monson Railroad No. 3, a 1912 Vulcan […]
Burlington Northern GP9 No. 1868, formerly Northern Pacific No. 245, is at Staples, Minn., on Sept. 4, 1989. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Railroad Museum is acquiring a high-hood former Northern Pacific GP9 in trade for a former Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range diesel. Independent Locomotive Service GP9 No. 1382, at the […]
Nevada Northern 4-6–0 No. 40 will star in a Trains-sponsored photo charter before its 1,472-day inspection is due. NNRY Museum EAST ELY, Nev. — Trains magazine and the Nevada Northern Railway Museum announce the “Farewell 40!” photo charter event March 7-8, 2020, featuring one of North America’s most handsome Ten-Wheeler steam locomotives before it goes […]
PRR sleeper Philadelphia County is up for auction. Ozark Mountain Railcar Painted in Monon colors, this Milwaukee Road F7 is up for auction. Ozark Mountain Railcar NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — The auction for several pieces of rolling stock left behind by the Indiana Transportation Museum at its former home is underway, but no bids have been […]
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — More than a dozen pieces of historical railroad equipment formerly owned by the Indiana Railroad Museum will be scrapped if they are not successfully sold during an auction beginning Monday. According to a listing on the website for railroad equipment broker Ozark Mountain Railcar, 17 pieces of equipment, including two locomotives, a […]
Cass Climax No. 9 steams on Thursday. Cass Scenic Railroad CASS, W.VA. — A restoration project that dates back almost 50 years has come to completion at the Cass Scenic Railroad in the heart of the Back Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia. Moore-Keppel & Co. three-truck Climax No. 9 returned to steam Thursday. The locomotive […]
This Northern Pacific painting by Gil Bennett is among those on display. KALISPELL, Mont. – The work of more than 30 prominent railroad artists will be on display this fall at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell. “Hear the Whistle Blow: Art of the Railway” runs Sept. 27 through Dec. 7 and is being […]
