BALTIMORE — Ben Griswold, a partner at investment firm Brown Advisory, will join CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs as a co-chair of the B&O Railroad Museum’s $38 million capital campaign, the museum has announced. Griswold is the great-great-great-grant grandson of Alex Brown, who in 1800 founded the first investment bank in the United States. It was […]
BOONTON, N.J. — The long-lost New Jersey car from the post-World War II “Merci Train” has been rediscovered and will be returned to the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey for restoration. The URHS reports the car has been donated by the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City. It was […]
Spring has officially sprung, and like warmer days ahead, announcements will soon be heating up for when and where you can experience big mainline steam in 2025. Some of these massive locomotives have already gotten head starts in their operating seasons with more expected to be out of hibernation before Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial […]
ELKHART, Ind. — Initial fundraising for the campaign to restore New York Central 4-8-2 No. 3001 has passed the halfway mark, with a new challenge grant launched to help bring in more funds. The American Locomotive Project seeks to restore the 1940 Alco, ownership of which was transferred from the City of Elkhart to the […]
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Eight months after it was devastated by a flood, the Sioux City Railroad Museum has reopened. The museum reopened on Saturday, March 1, and is currently open Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. Its website notes that restoration and renovation is […]
RUSH, N.Y. — An Alco S1 switcher from the Rochester-area short line Bath & Hammondsport Railroad will be joining the collection of the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. The combined efforts of the museum, the Steuben County Industrial Development Agency, and the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad has allowed the museum to purchase the […]
IRVINE, Ky. — An auction by Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. to sell former Nickel Plate Road 2-8-2 No. 587 has been halted on the day the auction’s winner was to be announced. Kentucky Steam said in a brief post on its Facebook page today (March 3, 2025) that the sale has been withdrawn because the […]
For as long as he can remember, Adam Matthews has been an aficionado of the former New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad — aka the Nickel Plate Road. The admiration for the Midwest’s fast-freight hauler has gotten the Ohio-based 33-year-old involved in three preservation organizations simultaneously: Social Media Administrator, Special Marketing Consultant and member […]
DULUTH, Ga. — The Southeastern Railway Museum, a 35-acre facility established in Duluth in 1970, is among sites included on Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2025 list of 10 Places in Peril. The organization says the list, issued Feb. 26, is designed to raise awareness about Georgia historic, archaeological, and cultural resources threatened by demolition, […]
PORT JERVIS, N.Y. — Non-profit initiative Erie Turntable has announced its lineup of events for 2025, including plans for the inaugural Orange County Transportation Festival in August. The Port Jervis turntable site, leased by Erie Turntable parent organization TOYX, will be open Saturdays and Sundays from May 10 through Oct. 12 from noon to 4 […]
WILMINGTON, Del. — Volunteers on the Wilmington & Western Railroad say railroad staff have notified them that operations on the long-time heritage railway are paused indefinitely. Volunteers seeking information about the railroad’s March schedule were notified of the decision in an email earlier this month. The railway depends on its all-volunteer crew to staff trains. […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. – With a cellphone, tablet or notebook in hand, visitors can activate a Pennsylvania Railroad position-light signal here to replicate any of 19 indications, past or present, used to govern train movements. The Harrisburg Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society on Wednesday (Feb. 19) completed a project, years in the making, that […]
