No. 168 undergoes a hydro test on Tuesday under the supervision of the Federal Railroad Administration. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic ANTONITO, Colo. – Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 – a 136-year-old locomotive under restoration at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic – passed a hydrostatic test on Tuesday. The successful test was witnessed by […]
No. 2719 leads a photo special at Palmers, Minn., on the North Shore Scenic Railroad on Sept. 8, 2011. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. – The City of Eau Claire has given up its effort to move Soo Line 4-6-2 No. 2719 from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth back to the Wisconsin city. The […]
Paul Hammond Colorado Railroad Museum GOLDEN, Colo. — Former California State Railroad Museum Director Paul Hammond will replace the retiring Donald Tallman as executive director of the Colorado Railroad Museum. Tallman, who has led the museum since 2006, will retire at the end of August. During his tenure, the museum has nearly doubled its attendance […]
Amtrak No. 3, the westbound Southwest Chief passes in front of the Hotel Castaneda in Las Vegas, NM. Thomas Scalf After 71 years, the Castaneda Hotel in Las Vegas, N.M., is open again with seven rooms available and more opening in the next few weeks. The hotel was built in 1898 as the first Atchison, […]
C&O 2716 will be on the move July 26-28 to its place of restoration. Trains: Jim Wrinn RAVENNA, Ky. — CSX Transportation and RJ Corman Railroad Group will move a former Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomotive to its new home later in the summer. The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., announced today that the two railroads […]
The unique steam locomotive Skookum is bedded down on a truck Sunday at Tillamook, Ore., for its trip to California. Martin E. Hansen TILLAMOOK, Ore. — The long and successful restoration of Baldwin’s first logging Mallet known as Skookum reached a milestone this morning when a pair of heavy-haul semi-trucks departed the blimp hanger in […]
Among 20 pieces of rolling stock offered for sale at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum is Florida East Coast 4-6-2 No. 113. Trains: Jim Wrinn MIAMI, Fla. — A south Florida railroad museum facing financial hardship is transitioning to an events venue and as part of that change the Gold Coast Railroad Museum will sell […]
Bridgton & Saco River Railroad No. 7 will be under steam for the Maine Narrow Gauge Co. & Museum’s first major event of the 2019 season. Maine Narow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum PORTLAND, Maine — A fire was being lit inside Bridgton & Saco River 2-4-4T No. 7 today in preparation for what is […]
A purchase agreement for a mile of right of way is a major step forward for a mixed-use facility and rail attraction for downtown Fort Wayne. Headwaters Junction FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Headwaters Junction, Inc., the non-profit group working to create a railroad-themed park that will eventually become the home for Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 […]
Great Northern Historical Society’s SD45 No. 400 got a new engine at the BNSF shop in Minneapolis. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS – Great Northern Railway Historical Society’s GN SD45 No. 400, “Hustle Muscle” is returning to service after two years. The locomotive was the first EMD production model SD45. In spring 2017, while being operated on […]
A museum on the Cumberland Valley is in this boxcar that has opened at the university in Shippensburg, Pa. Dan Cupper SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — The nation’s newest railroad museum is a boxcar. The Cumberland Valley Railroad Museum opened for business on Saturday in a 1956 New York Central 50-foot boxcar painted in its most recent […]
The bell tower on the restored Harvey House in Las Vegas, N.M. Three photos, Steve Glischinski LAS VEGAS, N.M. – The Hotel La Castañeda, a former Santa Fe Railway Harvey House hotel adjacent to the former depot in Las Vegas, saw its first guests in decades April 1. The hotel received its certificate of occupancy […]
