Arizona museum adds Alco NEWSWIRE

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Magma Arizona RS3 No. 3 is the latest acquisition at the fledgling Arizona State Railroad Museum. Arizona State Railroad Museum: Al Richmond WILLIAMS, Ariz. — Although the Arizona State Railroad Museum in Williams has yet to break ground on its museum building, the foundation behind it is continuing to accumulate rolling stock relevant to the […]

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New Mexico commuter ridership continues to fall NEWSWIRE

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico Rail Runner ridership continued to decline in fiscal 2018, marking its eighth straight year of decreases, and a report issued ahead of the start of the state legislative session suggests ways to stem the decline. The Associated Press reports that the more than 750,000 rides in the most recent fiscal […]

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Santa Fe reefers in Arizona

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Four F7s ease a train of refrigerator cars around one of the many curves on the original line between Supai and Welch, Ariz., in a 1950s publicity photo. The road’s 1960 line change between Williams Junction and Crookton avoided this tough stretch. Santa Fe photo […]

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SP’s short-lived Houston station

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Southern Pacific built this structure, which it called Grand Central Station, in Houston in 1934 to replace an 1886 depot. But Grand Central had a short life, being razed after only 25 years to make way for a new central post office. Classic Trains coll. […]

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PHNX caboose

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This bright red caboose and its sister, No. 101, escort special rail loads and are owned by PHN LLC. Timothy J. O’Malley Q Last year I saw a caboose on the tail end of a BNSF Railway train with PHNX reporting marks. Is it escorting the three hopper cars in front of it? Who owns […]

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