Loewy with a Pennsylvania Railroad S-1 class 6-4-4-6. Hagley Museum & Library A publiclity photo purporting to show the new ‘Broadway Limited’ includes K-4s No. 3768 and a solid train of lightweight cars. Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 No. 4905, designed by Loewy, at North Philadelphia. Krambles-Peterson Archive MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Internet giant Google has created […]
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Alaska Railroad names O’Leary President and CEO NEWSWIRE
Frank Keller ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska Railroad has named Bill O’Leary President and CEO, succeeding Chris Aadnesen. O’Leary will start in his new position on Nov. 1. O’Leary joined the Alaska Railroad in 2001 as vice president and chief financial officer. He was promoted to chief operating officer in March, and also served as […]
Association of Tourist Railroads & Railway Museums presents first awards NEWSWIRE
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – At its annual conference in Riverside on Oct. 19, the Association of Tourist Railroads & Railway Museums presented its first annual awards. The Significant Achievement Award went to the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society in Cloverdale, British Columbia. In the past year the Society built and relocated to a new carbarn, completed […]
Southern Railway No. 630 to pull last Norfolk Southern main line excursions for 2013 in November (with video) NEWSWIRE
Southern No. 630 on an excursion at Barber Junction, N.C., on June 16, 2012. Jonathan Myers CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway 2-8-0, No. 630, will take to the main line again in November with excursions on Norfolk Southern track in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Tickets go on sale next […]
Trains News Wire EXCLUSIVE: Yard sideswipe incident damages CSX executive train NEWSWIRE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An incident in CSX’s Moncrief Yard in Jacksonville has resulted in damage to two of the railroad’s executive train F40PHs and a switcher. Details of the Sept. 14 incident come from an unnamed source close to the railroad. A remote controlled yard job with the CSX MP15AC No. 1162 went out of its […]
NS train derails after collision with truck in Pennsylvania NEWSWIRE
HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Norfolk Southern double-stack train derailed near Dillsburg, about 15 miles southwest of Harrisburg, on Thursday afternoon when it collided with a tractor-trailer rig carrying a reinforced concrete bridge beam. According to local news reports, the 1:40 p.m. incident occurred when the truck, carrying a 131-foot, 73-ton bridge beam, was trying to […]
Carthage, Knightstown & Shirley shuts down NEWSWIRE
KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind. – The Carthage, Knightstown & Shirley Railroad has shut down, at least for now. The 5-mile line between Knightstown and Carthage is part of a former New York Central secondary line that ran south from Michigan to Louisville, Ky. The railroad hauled freight for a time, but once the former Pennsylvania Railroad Pittsburgh-Indianapolis […]
Texas Big Boy makes final move to new museum site NEWSWIRE
FRISCO, Texas – Former Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4018 finally reached the Museum of the American Railroad’s new site in Frisco on Sunday. The locomotive had been moved from Dallas to Irving on Aug. 18. Due to the late hour of arrival in Irving, officials decided to tie the train down for the […]
Trains exclusive: Union Pacific Big Boy search began two years ago, led to 4014 NEWSWIRE
LOS ANGELES — Union Pacific’s quest to return one of its famous 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotives to steam began about two years ago and soon focused on No. 4014. That rebuild could take five years or more to complete, as Trains News Wire learned in a wide-ranging interview with UP’s steam chief. He says the […]
Union Pacific Big Boy: The rebirth of a legend NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 on display at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, Calif., in December 2012. David Lustig Through the 1940s and 1950s, Union Pacific’s 25 4-8-8-4 Big Boys symbolized powerful, big-time railroading in the wide-open American West. Now, Union Pacific is bringing one of these legendary locomotives, No. 4014, […]
Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad rejects grant NEWSWIRE
ABILENE, Kan. – A $500,000 grant from the federal government to repair a bridge on the Abilene & Smoky Valley tourist railroad has been rejected and returned to the government. The grant through the Kansas Department of Transportation was requested by the Dickinson County Commission to repair the railroad’s bridge across the Smoky Hill River. […]
Union Pacific confirms plans to restore Big Boy steam locomotive NEWSWIRE
No. 4014 at Pomona David Lustig OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific confirms today it will purchase and restore a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy steam locomotive. The railroad has reached an agreement with the Southern California Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society in Pomona, Calif., to transfer ownership of No. 4014 back to Union Pacific. The […]