ALNA, Maine — Shipments of equipment from the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum have arrived at the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum’s Sheepscot campus, over the past two weeks, moved by truck from Portland and unloaded via a recently built ramp track. First to arrive were Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad “Rangeley,” […]
Type of Train: Steam Locomotive
Big Boy’s Great Midwest Tour: Wisconsin Part 2 NEWSWIRE
Join Trains for Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video is taken near the Union Pacific main line in Sussex, Wis. […]
Big Boy’s Great Midwest Tour: Wisconsin Part 1
Join Trains for Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video is from Clyman Junction, Wis., where Big Boy passed right under an increasingly scarce piece of railroad architecture: the once ubiquitous coaling tower. […]
Big Boy’s Great Midwest Tour: Wisconsin Part 1
Join Trains for Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video is from Clyman Junction, Wis., where Big Boy passed right under an increasingly scarce piece of railroad architecture: the once ubiquitous coaling tower. […]
C&O 2716 move begins Friday; here’s what you need to know NEWSWIRE
C&O 2-8-4 No. 2716’s move to restoration begins Friday. Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. The 75-year-old former Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomotive which has called the Kentucky Railway Museum its home for the past six decades is ready to be moved to is new home. Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation, CSX, and R.J. Corman Railroad Group will […]
CP steam locomotive, two wood cars, need a new home NEWSWIRE
MORRISBURG, Ont., Canada — A Canadian Pacific steam locomotive and two cars long displayed in a park near the St. Lawrence River may be en route to a new home, after the St. Lawrence Parks Commission decided restoring the equipment would be too costly. The restoration of the 2-6-0, a wooden baggage car, and a […]
New York railroad looking for funds to put 2-8-0 back in service NEWSWIRE
Arcade & Attica Railroad 2-8-0 No. 18 in its current state. The wheels were being removed for bearing box construction which will give its wheels and axles longer lifespans. Pat Connors ERIE, Pa. — When steam debuted on the Arcade & Attica Railroad in 1962 it was a big deal. A small New York railroad […]
Southern Pacific No. 18 returns to service on the Durango & Silverton NEWSWIRE
After several months of work in the shops in Durango, Colo., Southern Pacific No. 18, otherwise known as the Slim Princess, returned to service at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad on July 18, pulling a loaded passenger train from Rockwood, Colo., to Cascade Canyon, Colo. On April 9, 2019, the steam engine, leased […]
Big Boy’s Great Midwest Tour: Duluth
Follow along with Trains Editor Jim Wrinn in this fourth compilation video from Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video focuses on Big Boy’s trek through Minnesota on its way to Duluth, Minn. […]
Big Boy’s Great Midwest Tour: Duluth
Follow along with Trains Editor Jim Wrinn in this fourth compilation video from Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014’s Great Midwest Tour. This video focuses on Big Boy’s trek through Minnesota on its way to Duluth, Minn. […]
Stationary steam
Articulated steam locomotives rest at Cumberland, Md.’s 31-stall roundhouse in April 1934. A coal strike has sidelined the big engines, which otherwise would be working. Bruce D. Fales photo […]
Pennsy power
The Pennsylvania Railroad station in Fort Wayne, Ind., was busy each afternoon and evening as the railroad’s eastbound passenger train fleet rolled in. Here, a distinctive T1 class 4-4-4-4 receives some attention under the lights. William N. Clark photo […]
