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UP 4014 on display in West Chicago in July. Trains: Jim Wrinn OMAHA, Neb. — How many people saw Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 run in 2019? That is a question whose answer we’ll never know with full certainty, but estimates are coming in. UP says it counted 115,000 visitors who went through its […]
Icicles form on the front of Milwaukee Road 4-84 operating in frigid temperatures at St. Paul Union Depot. Friends of the 261 ST. PAUL, Minn. – Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 pulled North Pole Express trips that carried 10,000 passengers this month, the nonprofit Friends of the 261 reports. While the first weekend at St. […]
Grubby but still working, former Union Pacific 0-6-0 4455 waits for its next move at the Monolith cement plant near Laramie, Wyoming, in September 1967. A. J. Wolff When I began my freshman year at the University of Wyoming in Laramie in 1963, I was vaguely aware that steam locomotives possibly were still being used […]
Donations will be matched through Dec. 31 up to $5,358 for NKP SD9 No. 358. FWRHS NEW HAVEN, Ind. — Online contributors have donated half of the match that will go toward the restoration of a Nickel Plate Road SD9 in the collection of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society. That means more than $2,500 […]
MT-4 SP 4360, today’s power on Train #72, the Los Angeles-bound Coast Mail, picks up a load of strawberries at Quisling, Calif. Video by Brian Moore. […]
MT-4 SP 4360, today’s power on Train #72, the Los Angeles-bound Coast Mail, picks up a load of strawberries at Quisling, Calif. Video by Brian Moore. […]
Mainline steam in November 2019: Polish 2-6-2 Ol49 59 is about to leave Wolsztyn with the 11:37 service to Leszno on Nov. 22, 2019. The 80-minute one-way steam trip cost around $3. Keith Fender WARSAW — Daily steam hauled passenger services survive on two regional commuter rail lines in western Poland but seem set to […]
Anaconda Co. No. 7 Heritage Museum at Fort Missoula MISSOULA, Mont. – A small museum in Montana is raising money to restore the oldest surviving Willamette locomotive in existence. Anaconda Co. No. 7, a three-truck Willamette built-in 1923, has been on display outside of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula since the 1980s. Plans call […]
A recently “discovered” Soo Line Railroad silent movie from 1919 featuring glimpses of how Colleywood / Maryville Junction looked 100 years ago. Video shot by Radio Trains. […]
A recently “discovered” Soo Line Railroad silent movie from 1919 featuring glimpses of how Colleywood / Maryville Junction looked 100 years ago. Video shot by Radio Trains. […]
Bea and Bob Lorenz visit Nickel Plate Road No. 765 in New Haven, Ind. Bob grew up and lived in Fremont, Ohio, on the Nickel Plate. Ellen Gatrell FREMONT, Ohio – It’s not a brash claim to say that no railroad artist or designer has ever reached as large an audience as Robert “Bob” H. […]
Former South African Railway NG-16 No. 129 made its first run on the puffing Billy Railway in Australia on Nov. 11, following an extensive overhaul that included re-gauging from 24-inch to 30-inch. Puffing Billy Railway: Russ Hicks BELGRAVE, Australia – Twenty-three years after it arrived at the Puffing Billy Railway, former South African Railways Beyer-Garratt […]
