Norfolk Southern donates Southern SD40 to TVRM NEWSWIRE

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Norfolk Southern EMD SD40 No. 3170 makes a special appearance at the N.C. Transportation Museum in May 2015.  Chase Gunnoe CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s collection of Southern Railway heritage is growing by one locomotive. Norfolk Southern has donated Southern Railway EMD SD40 No. 3170 to the Chattanooga museum. The locomotive was […]

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Ready

Whitewater Valley Railroad’s No. 25 stands by, waiting further orders on Dec. 21, 2013. The decades-old Lima-Hamilton served Cincinnati Union Terminal and the Cadillac & Lake City Railroad before moving to Connersville, Ind. Photo by Steve Sweeney […]

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Museum unveils Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia-painted GP38 NEWSWIRE

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Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is preserving a piece of southern shortline railroading history with the unveiling of its newly restored Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway EMD GP38 No. 80. The blue-and-yellow-painted high-nose GP38 was posed outside of the railroad’s Soule Shops over the weekend. “TAG 80 has […]

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Team to restore a ‘Dixie’ 4-8-4 NEWSWIRE

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Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis 4-8-4 No. 576 Trains: Jim Wrinn NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One of the rarest members of “the greatest generation” of modern American steam has languished in a Nashville park for more than six decades. Multiple efforts to bring it back to life have come and gone. Now, though, steam buffs hope […]

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In profile

  A pair of Iowa Pacific E units rolls west with an excursion train in tow on Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision near Muscoda, Wis., on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]

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Illinois Railway Museum buys Burnham Shops turntable NEWSWIRE

UNION, Ill. — After years of wishing and hoping, Illinois Railway Museum has finally gotten a turntable as the centerpiece of its long-term plan for a roundhouse to protect and display its not-inconsequential collection of steam locomotives. During the auction on March 24 of Union Pacific’s former Denver & Rio Grande Western Burnham Shops complex […]

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Northwest 2-6-6-2T headed for restoration in South Dakota NEWSWIRE

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A crane lifts the boiler off the frame of Northwest Railway Museum’s former Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. No. 108 a 2-6-6-2T Mallet-type locomotive. The museum is “deaccessioning” the locomotive. It is now on its way to the Black Hills Central Railroad in South Dakota. David Honan SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Another big steam locomotive is headed toward restoration.  […]

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Another 611 worth saving NEWSWIRE

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FULL SCREEN Eric Powell Lehigh & New England No. 611 as it sat in Emporia, Ind., awaiting loading onto a flatcar for transport east to Pennsylvania. FULL SCREEN Eric Powell A nose shot of Lehigh & New England No. 611 as it sat in Emporia, Ind., awaiting loading onto a flatcar for transport east to Pennsylvania. […]

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Jointed rail

  An Iowa Pacific excursion makes its way toward Muscoda, Wis., along the jointed rail of Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]

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