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Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 27 is at Cloquet, Minn., bound for Saginaw with empty log flats in August 1962. The 11-mile line was all-steam until 1964. A sister to this engine, D&NE 28, was recently reactivated by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Russ Porter photo […]
Charlie Conway spends the day with the engine crew on the Mount Rainier Railroad, a former logging route in Washington state. Through the lenses of Charlie’s multiple HD cameras you will get to see just what it takes to run and maintain a working steam locomotive! […]
Charlie Conway spends the day with the engine crew on the Mount Rainier Railroad, a former logging route in Washington state. Through the lenses of Charlie’s multiple HD cameras you will get to see just what it takes to run and maintain a working steam locomotive! […]
Time freights 209 and 212 of the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad meet at Eller, N.C., in 1956. Reflective of the 95-mile WSS’s two owners, Mikado 827 (right) is a former Atlantic Coast Line engine with a Norfolk & Western tender. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
The cab of Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 awaiting restoration in July 2015. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn CUMBERLAND, Md. — A lack of money is forcing the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad to stop all work on restoring Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309. “A lot of our visitors have the idea that we should throw all of […]
Bachmann Sound Value N&W Class J 4-8-4 The Norfolk & Western Ry. Class J 4-8-4 was the last new steam locomotive built for passenger service in the United States. And the third-to-last passenger steam locomotive, no. 611, is still running, wowing steam fans old and young in excursion service. Bachmann’s model of the 611 has […]
A cosmetically restored Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2700 as it now appears in Dennison, Ohio. Jason Johnson Workers install boiler jacketing on C&O No. 2700. Jason Johnson DENNISON, Ohio — The first example of Chesapeake & Ohio’s fleet of 2-8-4s has been cosmetically restored by the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum. C&O No. 2700 was […]
With cars from the New Haven Railroad interchange at Maybrook, N.Y., a Lehigh & Hudson River freight makes a smoky passage through Lake, N.Y., en route to Allentown, Pa. Up front is one of L&HR’s heavy 2-8-0s. Donald W. Furler photo […]
The head-end brakeman of a Missouri Pacific freight train looks out from his “doghouse” on the tender of 2-8-2 No. 1571 at Little Rock, Ark. J. M. Gray photo […]
On June 20, 1950, seven months after the Nickel Plate Road leased the 500-mile Wheeling & Lake Erie, W&LE Berkshire 6430 rolls 75 cars toward Toledo along the Sandusky River north of Fremont, Ohio. Soon NKP would renumber the Wheeling Berks into its 800 series. Bob Lorenz photo […]
Watch this weathered HO scale Baltimore & Ohio EM1 2-8-8-4 by Bachmann take a trip around the layout. It’s fitted with a Soundtraxx Econami Steam decoder and a boiler-mounted sugar cube speaker. Video by Andrew Thompson. […]
Watch this weathered HO scale Baltimore & Ohio EM1 2-8-8-4 by Bachmann take a trip around the layout. It’s fitted with a Soundtraxx Econami Steam decoder and a boiler-mounted sugar cube speaker. Video by Andrew Thompson. […]
