NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — More than a dozen pieces of historical railroad equipment formerly owned by the Indiana Railroad Museum will be scrapped if they are not successfully sold during an auction beginning Monday. According to a listing on the website for railroad equipment broker Ozark Mountain Railcar, 17 pieces of equipment, including two locomotives, a […]
Train Topic: Preservation
Cass Climax steams for the first time NEWSWIRE
Cass Climax No. 9 steams on Thursday. Cass Scenic Railroad CASS, W.VA. — A restoration project that dates back almost 50 years has come to completion at the Cass Scenic Railroad in the heart of the Back Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia. Moore-Keppel & Co. three-truck Climax No. 9 returned to steam Thursday. The locomotive […]
Montana museum to host major railroad art exhibit NEWSWIRE
This Northern Pacific painting by Gil Bennett is among those on display. KALISPELL, Mont. – The work of more than 30 prominent railroad artists will be on display this fall at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell. “Hear the Whistle Blow: Art of the Railway” runs Sept. 27 through Dec. 7 and is being […]
West Side’s wandering Shays: Will No. 14 return to California? NEWSWIRE
West Side Lumber 14, seen meeting Shay 8, in 1958, may return to California. Stan Kistler, Martin E. Hansen collection GOLDEN, Colo. — West Side Lumber Co. No 14, a three-foot-gauge three-truck Shay, may return to its original home state of California if discussions between owners Lindsey and Rosa Ashby and the Roaring Camp & […]
CRR 800 will tour Ohio on excursions this fall NEWSWIRE
Clinchfield 800 will be on tour this fall in Ohio. Trains: Jim Wrinn CINCINNATI — Clinchfield F7 No. 800, the famous streamliner that spent an extended vacation in Florida, is about to tour Ohio this fall, organizers of Ohio Rail Experience excursions said Friday. The gray and yellow locomotive, restored to its original appearance in […]
Ross Rowland to speak at event to benefit Reading 2100
CLEVELAND, Ohio – One of the men who helped bring back big steam to main lines across the country, will be on hand for a fundraising dinner this September. Ross Rowland will be giving an exclusive video and photo presentation about his lifetime at the throttle. Rowland, a former New York Stock Exchange commodities trader, […]
Carson & Colorado Railway volunteers ride behind Southern Pacific No. 18 NEWSWIRE
DURANGO, Colo. — Seventy volunteers of the Carson & Colorado Railway got to ride behind Southern Pacific No. 18 on Aug. 23 as it made its way from Durango to Silverton, Colo. The private excursion was hosted by Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, which has been leasing the 4-6-0 oil-burning locomotive built by Baldwin […]
Visitors increase at Golden Spike, Steamtown NEWSWIRE
‘Jupiter’ and No. 119 replicas recreate the 1869 ceremony at the Golden Spike National Historic Park in Utah. Jim Wrinn PROMONTORY, Utah – More than 38,000 people made the pilgrimage to the Utah desert in three days in May to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike that completed the First […]
North Carolina’s Tweetsie narrow gauge debuts flatcar NEWSWIRE
ET&WNC 4-6-0 No. 12 pulls a flatcar for the first time along with a former East Broad Top coach to create Tweetsie Railroad’s first mixed train. Kevin Gilliam BOONE, N.C. — A little bit of history was made this weekend at the Tweetsie Railroad near Boone, N.C. For the first time since the early 1940s, […]
East Broad Top still needs a savior NEWSWIRE
This is the eighth summer the famed East Broad Top narrow gauge railroad has remained closed. Wayne Laepple East Broad Top 2-8-2 No. 15 rolls in the summer of 2009. Trains: Jim Wrinn ORBISONIA, Pa. — The track is still there. The buildings are still there. The trim Mikados and hopper cars original to the […]
Western Maryland 1309 project halts again for need of funding NEWSWIRE
Just last week the 56-inch drivers went back into No. 1309’s front engine. Now the project has stopped for lack of money. Tishia Boggs RIDGELEY, W.Va. — Work on Western Maryland 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 has come to a halt as funding for the project has run out once more. Work stopped after the Diversified Rail […]
Soo Line steam locomotive finally relocated NEWSWIRE
Chisago City, Minn. — It’s taken a year, but Soo Line 2-8-0 No. 2425 finally made the move from Ironhorse Railroad Park in Minnesota to its new home at the Mineral Range Railroad in Ishpeming, Mich. After its retirement in January 1955, No. 2425 was donated to the city of Enderlin, N.D., and put on […]
