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Preservationist George Hart dies NEWSWIRE
George M. Hart Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania LEHIGHTON, Pa. – Legendary Pennsylvania railroad preservationist George Hart, who died Thursday in Lehighton at age 89, will remembered for his work with Reading’s steam fantrips, as the first director of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, and as the indefatigable operator of Rail Tours Inc. excursions. He was […]
Trains, March 2008
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Abandoned rail tunnel for sale NEWSWIRE
PLUMMER, Idaho – A tunnel that used to host Milwaukee Road freights bound for the Puget Sound area is for sale for $650,000, the Associated Press reported. The tunnel has sat vacant since Milwaukee shut down its transcontinental freight line in 1980. “We think it’s time for someone else to own it,” said Don Parker, […]
Lake Central Rail Tours ends Michigan operations NEWSWIRE
HAMMOND, Ind. – Lake Central Rail Tours, which operated excursion trains on Michigan’s Tuscola & Saginaw Bay Railway and successor Great Lakes Central Railroad, is canceling 2008 operations, citing rising insurance and fuel costs as the reasons. Great Lakes will continue to occasionally operate Northern Arrow Excursions to Petoskey, Mich., in cooperation with Cincinnati Railway […]
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Burlington Northern SD9 gets new Cascade Green paint NEWSWIRE
Burlington Northern SD9 6234 shows off its new coat of paint at Minnesota Transportation Museum’s ex-Great Northern Jackson Street Roundhouse in St. Paul, Minn. Ralph Back ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Transportation Museum has restored former Burlington Northern SD9 No. 6234 to its Cascade Green paint scheme. The unit emerged from the Wisconsin & […]
