An overview of the Ravenna car shops and rail yard facilities that will become the future site of the Kentucky rail heritage center and home to Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716. Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. IRVINE, Ky. — Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716 will be the centerpiece of a new rail heritage partnership […]
No. 1361 is runs northbound on the Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad pulling into Tyrone, Pa., to load passengers for a round trip to Bellefonte in July 1987. Steven J. Brown ALTOONA, Pa. – Preservationist Bennett Levin announced Thursday a new push to restore famed Pennsylvania Railroad K4s steam locomotive No. 1361 to operation after […]
CLEVELAND — Officers and leaders of the restoration of Reading Co. 4-8-4 T1 No. 2100 speak about what it takes to restore a classic steam locomotive from the 20th century. More information is available online. […]
JEFFERSON, La. — The Louisiana Steam Train Association has delayed an operation of its Southern Pacific 2-8-2 No. 745 on a grain train that was originally planned for April or May 2018. In April, the association announced that it had arranged for an event seldom seen in railroad preservation: No. 745, would pull a revenue […]
En route to Duluth, Milwaukee Road No. 261 passes through Hinckley, Minn., on June 4, 2016. A similar trip for this June has been cancelled. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS – The Friends of the 261 has informed ticketholders it was forced to cancel its planned positive train control fundraising trip from Minneapolis to the Lake Superior Railroad […]
We visit Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4005 at Denver’s Forney Museum of Transportation, one of only two Big Boy locomotives housed inside. It is also the only Big Boy ever converted to burn oil for fuel and the only one to suffer a major derailment. We talk with the Forney’s Al Frank and Kayla […]
Donors of a certain monetary level to an effort to restore five Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives will receive this print. FRMP STRASBURG, Pa. – The Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania recently commissioned a painting from renowned railroad artist Peter Lerro Jr. This attractive watercolor depicts five historic Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives in the […]
ST. LOUIS – Gary Bensman walks through Continental Fabricators in St. Louis, holding a washout plug for the boiler of Pennsylvania Railroad T1 No. 5550. Bensman grips the plug much like a judge would hold a gavel, as he holds court over the fabrication of the boiler for a locomotive class whose last member of […]
Former Great Northern and Burlington Northern SD7 No. 6008 works at a grain elevator in Litchfield, Minn. The locomotive has been donated to the Minnesota Transportation Museum. Steve Glischinski ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Transportation Museum has acquired former Great Northern Railway SD7 No. 558. Cargill, Inc. donated the locomotive, one of 23 SD7s […]
A crane and crews work to lift former Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus cars from a nearby shortline railroad siding to panel track laid at the Kirby Family Farm in Williston, Fla., on Saturday, Feb. 24. The circus cars are destined for re-use as dormitories for at-risk and special needs youth. Submitted photo A […]
The old cab of Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 in July 2015. Workers built a new cab to replace the old one. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn CUMBERLAND, Md. — Brass components weighing 300 pounds each were pulled off former Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 and sold to a local scrap dealer, according to Gary […]
Demolition equipment is in place to cut up No. 503 in Port Arthur, Texas, unless preservationists prevail. Jason Sobczynski PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Railway preservationists are launching a last-minute grass roots campaign to try and save a unique Ten-Wheeler that is only days away from scrapping in this coastal city that was devastated by Hurricane […]
