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 […]
Magazine: Trains Magazine
Model Railroader, February 2008
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Trains, February 2008
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Model Railroader, January 2008
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Trains, January 2008
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Tom Danneman’s ideas for restyling BNSF
When Editor Wrinn mentioned his idea for an upcoming editorial (“BNSF, CSX, Please Buy a Vowel,”page 4, February 2008), I was in total agreement. I mentioned to him that since we were going ahead and renaming BNSF to Great Western, why don’t I fix their paint scheme while I’m at it. Jim thought that an […]
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 & […]
Your Favorite Railroad Books
I thought of “Portrait of the Rails” by Don Ball, Jr. immediately when reading Jim Wrinn’s editorial about favorite railroad books. As a child I spent hours gazing at the photos it contained of steam trains billowing smoke and funny looking streamliners while my dad would tell me stories about the trains of the 40’s […]
Model Railroader, December 2007
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Trains, December 2007
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Model Railroader, November 2007
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Trains, November 2007
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