SUGAR CREEK, Ohio — The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum has announced a successful test run of its first of its steam locomotives rehabilitated into an operational state. On July 16 and 17, staff at the Age of Steam Roundhouse completed a test run of Morehead & North Fork No. 12, an 0-6-0 built […]
Type of Train: Steam Locomotive
Schedule set for UP steam trips; passenger cars delivered to Cheyenne NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific’s salute to armed forces unit, No. 1943, powers a Monday deadhead move delivering passenger cars to Cheyenne, Wyo., for excursions this weekend. Brad J. Williams Union Pacific is preparing to run its only steam excursions of the year, the Cheyenne Frontier Days special and a subsequent trip, after a deadhead move on Monday […]
Work focuses on test fire preparations for C&O 1309 NEWSWIRE
Work progresses on C&O 1309 at Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. Diversified Rail Services Trailing truck from C&O 1309. Diversified Rail Services Welder fabricates new ashpan on C&O 1309. Diversified Rail Services RIDGELEY, W.Va. — In a continuing update series of dispatches about the restoration of 2-6-6-2 No. 1309, Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and contractor Diversified […]
Narrow-gauge ‘Frisco’ 0-4-0 enters service in Missouri NEWSWIRE
Silver Dollar City No. 504 Dalton Fischer, Silver Dollar City BRANSON, Mo. – After an extensive rebuilding a Czechoslovakia-built 0-4-0T has entered service at the Silver Dollar City theme park in Branson. “Frisco” 504 is a 2-foot gauge 0-4-0T built in 1941 by Czechoslovakia’s Ceskomoravska Kolben Danek. The engine was rebuilt at the shops of […]
Nickel Plate Road 765 will return to Ohio in September NEWSWIRE
Nickel Plate Road No. 765 returns to Cuyahoga Valley Scenic in September. This image was made in October 2013 on a Norfolk Southern excursion out of Fort Wayne, Ind. Trains: Jim Wrinn INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765’s September just got a little busier. Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad says it will start […]
Illinois Railway Museum test fires its Shay NEWSWIRE
Illinois Railway Museum Shay No. 5 is under steam today for the first time in 19 years. IRM Steam Team Facebook page UNION — For the second time in less than two weeks, Illinois Railway Museum volunteers have pulled off a major restoration coup. On Tuesday, they fired up J. Neills Lumber Co. three-truck Shay […]
Iowa Interstate QJ steam locomotive No. 6988 will run in August NEWSWIRE
Iowa Interstate QJ 2-10-2s Nos. 6988 and 7081 doublehead in Iowa in 2011. Trains: Jim Wrinn MITCHELLVILLE, Iowa — For the first time in six years, Iowa Interstate will operate Chinese-built QJ-type 2-10-2 No. 6988 on excursions. The trips benefit local fire departments in the central Iowa area and are scheduled for the weekend of […]
Debuting the Emma Nevada
Name: Mark Kimball Railroad Name: M&P RR Location: Midwest Scale: 1:29 standard gauge Theme: Short Line Description: M&P RR, a standard gauge short line in the Black Hills, has a replica of Disney Animator Ward Kimball’s Emma Nevada (a Bachmann Mogul). Just got battery power, and AirWire control, out for its first spin. […]
Debuting the Emma Nevada
Name: Mark Kimball Railroad Name: M&P RR Location: Midwest Scale: 1:29 standard gauge Theme: Short Line Description: M&P RR, a standard gauge short line in the Black Hills, has a replica of Disney Animator Ward Kimball’s Emma Nevada (a Bachmann Mogul). Just got battery power, and AirWire control, out for its first spin. […]
Indiana Mikado finds refuge in Kentucky NEWSWIRE
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-2 No. 587 Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. RAVENNA, Ky. — Nickel Plate Road 2-8-2 No. 587 will be relocated to Ravenna, Ky., and eventually restored, Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., announced on Sunday. The group is helping relocate the locomotive and other equipment from the Indiana Transportation Museum after the museum recently received […]
‘Leviathan’ has found a home at a Pennsylvania wedding venue
Leviathan debuted at Trainfestival 2009 in Owosso, Mich., and soon began traveling the east and midwest to tourist railroads, museums, and other special events. Trains: Jim Wrinn ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Leviathan No. 63, Dave Kloke’s sparkling standard gauge replica of an 1868 Central Pacific 4-4-0 American-type steam locomotive, has landed in a most unlikely home: […]
Union Pacific to renumber SD70M No. 4014 before Big Boy runs NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific SD70M No. 4014 leads Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and SD70M No. 4884 at Laramie, Wyo., in May 2014 on the ferry move of the steam locomotive from California to Wyoming. Trains: Jim Wrinn OMAHA, Neb. – If you got photos of Union Pacific SD70M No. 4014 before it became famous as the […]
