FORT WAYNE, Ind. – A decade-long vision for a permanent and interactive home for Nickel Plate Road No. 765 is moving forward after local officials say development plans for the Headwaters Junction project were the only proposals submitted to the city in a recent request. The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society confirms with Trains News […]
Soo Line No. 2425 will be relocated from Minnesota to Michigan for restoration. Erik Thompson collection CHISAGO CITY, Minn. — Minnesota’s Ironhorse Railroad Park has sold former Soo Line 2-8-0 No. 2425 to Mineral Range Inc., operator of the Mineral Range Railroad in Ishpeming, Mich. The locomotive has been stored at the museum since its […]
Original and replica cabs for Boston & Maine 3713 meet at Steamtown on Aug. 30, 2018. Steamtown NPS SCRANTON, Pa. — After more than two decades of false starts and delays, the restoration of Boston & Maine 4-6-2 No. 3713 at Steamtown National Historic Site has picked up speed and this week reached two major […]
Quincy & Torch Lake No. 6 after restoration in Michigan. Q&TL Facebook page HANCOCK, Mich. — An elderly narrow gauge locomotive last operated just after World War II has been cosmetically restored by volunteers. No. 6 of the Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad, a 1912 Baldwin outside frame 2-8-0, ran on the six-mile railroad hauling […]
FULL SCREEN Ed Lichtenfels via the Colorado Railroad Museum The Rio Grande tunnel motor is spending in air at the Colorado Railroad Museum. FULL SCREEN Ed Lichtenfels via the Colorado Railroad Museum Crews maneuver the locomotive into its final position at the Colorado Railroad Museum. FULL SCREEN Jim Barton via the Colorado Railroad Museum Crews […]
No. 2 before restoration. Boothbay Railway Village BOOTHBAY, Maine – A steam locomotive from one of Maine’s most obscure two-foot gauge railroads is making its public debut after an extensive restoration. Boothbay Railway Village’s S.D. Warren 0-4-0T No. 2 will be under steam on Sept. 8 for a day-long celebration marking the completion of its […]
SPENCER, N.C. — The North Carolina Transportation Museum has restored Southern Railway No. 550555 to its original commemorative paint scheme. In 1970, the 50-foot cushioned boxcar was the 200,000th freight car built by Pullman-Standard at their Bessemer, Ala., plant. The factory opened in 1929. Southern Railway president W. Graham Claytor Jr. and Pullman-Standard president George […]
Join Trains for a ride on a former Northern Pacific triple-combine express car as a retired mail car clerk, a historical interpreter, and a reporter meet to catch a mail bag full of history on a moving train on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway in October 2017. Only from Trains! […]
Join Trains for a ride on a former Northern Pacific triple-combine express car as a retired mail car clerk, a historical interpreter, and a reporter meet to catch a mail bag full of history on a moving train on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway in October 2017. Only from Trains! […]
Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 2926 raises steam in Albuquerque, N.M., on Aug. 22. More work needs to be done before the locomotive is ready for main line operation. William P. Diven ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s been a long pull — 18 years since Santa Fe Railway No. 2926 creaked and groaned out of an Albuquerque […]
Rick Marsden paints ceiling panel for the new company store at the home of Santa Fe Railway 2926 in Albuquerque, N.M. The panels will be curved to replicate the roof of the 2926 cab. The previous company store was torn down in June during rerailing of the 2926. Bill Diven ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – With the […]
Joining Nickel Plate Road No. 765, above on a 2013 excursion, at the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s annual open house this weekend is Jeddo Coal 0-4-0T No. 85 from Gramling Locomotive Works. Trains: Jim Wrinn NEW HAVEN, IND. — On Aug. 17, 18, and 19 the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society will host its […]
