PRR tail car Frank Thomson will bring up the markers on the special move to celebrate the 1949 Broadway Limited. Note the replica sign. Rudy Garbely NEW YORK — Three Pennsylvania Railroad Broadway Limited cars from the streamlined 1949 edition of the train will celebrate 70 years of service July 12-14 when they operate New […]
Manitou & Pikes Peak Railroad steam locomotive No. 4 is staged on a short stretch of railroad track outside the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel in Williams, Ariz., after delivery on June 28, 2019. The smokestack, removed for transport, has yet to be reinstalled. GCRY: Eric Hadder WILLIAMS, Ariz. — In another symbiotic tie between members […]
Nickel Plate Road No. 765, seen on a Norfolk Southern excursion in 2013, returns to Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad in September. PENINSULA, OHIO — Tickets go on sale Tuesday for Nickel Plate Road No. 765’s return to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad and its annual Steam in the Valley event Sept. 21, 22, 27, […]
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway 2-8-0 No. 332 is under steam at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum’s shop in Duluth on June 25, 2019. David C. Schauer DULUTH, Minn. – For the first time since 1962, a Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range steam locomotive is under steam with proper Missabe Road lettering. On June […]
Drivers and driving boxes await installation at Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. Chris Campbell 56 inch drivers are ready for installation on Western Maryland 2-6-6-2 No. 1309. Chris Campbell RIDGELEY, W.Va. — The long and twisting restoration of 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 at Western Maryland Scenic Railroad may finally be nearing a successful conclusion, punctuated with the […]
Friends of the 261’s E9A No. 101, ex-Milwaukee Road No. 32A, leads an eastbound excursion train past the former Milwaukee Road depot in Hopkins, Minn., on June 23, 2019. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS – The Friends of the 261 debuted its newly acquired former Milwaukee Road E9A over the weekend on trips over the Twin Cities […]
A special Metra train promoting visits to the Pullman National Monument arrives at the 111th/Pullman station on the Metra Electric line. In the background is Pullman’s landmark Clock Tower building, surrounded in scaffolding for its renovation. Metra photo by Courtney Aubrecht Passengers on Metra’s special train to the Pullman National Monument detrain at Pullman. Metra […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — CSX Transportation has once again made a significant contribution to the restoration of No. 576, the legendary Nashville steam locomotive currently undergoing a full restoration. As the successor company to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad where “The Stripe” ran the rails in the 1940s and ‘50s, CSX supported the locomotive’s […]
Cumbres & Toltec 2-8-2 No. 463 pushes rotary OY toward Cumbres Pass Thursday. Charlest Weston CHAMA, N.M. – The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Denver & Rio Grande Western 1923 rotary snow plow OY made its way to restoration Thursday with a trip across the 64-mile narrow gauge railroad from Chama, N.M., to Antonito, Colo. […]
Baldwin Locomotive Works No. 60000 is moved to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in September 1933. It took five days to move the locomotive five blocks from 24th and Vine Street. Barry R. Nemcoff PHILADELPHIA – A $6 million grant from the Hamilton Family Charitable Trust will transform the Franklin Institute’s Train Factory exhibit, which […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly seven decades after being built, PCC streetcars are still earning their keep in San Francisco and thanks to a recent rehabilitation effort, the streamlined cars will be doing so for years to come. Since 2014, Brookville Equipment Corporation has been rebuilding 16 PCC cars for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. […]
Steam Into History’s 4-4-0 York No. 17. Wayne Laepple NEW FREEDOM, Pa. — Tourist railroad Steam Into History is making a few changes in its operations and branding. Michael Patrick, president of the organization’s board, said that while it is best known for it’s Civil War-era steam locomotive replica, a vintage diesel is also in […]
