Western Maryland group seeks donations for relocation of S2
The non-profit Western Maryland Rail Heritage Foundation is seeking donations to relocate the last remaining Western Maryland Railway Alco S2…
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PORTOLA, Calif. — The Western Pacific Railroad Museum has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
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A former Bangor & Aroostook F3A, which became Canadian Pacific property with the purchase of the Central Maine & Quebec,…
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When we drove off Illinois Route 92 onto former Rock Island property recently at Silvis, I was singularly focused on…
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The EMD BL20-2 locomotive had to be an engineer’s brainchild to improve the company’s share of the locomotive market. Just…
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Saluda Grade The famous Saluda Grade in western North Carolina has seen its last train. Railbanked in December 2001, nature…
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When the Amtrak car inspector standing in the doorway of one of Bennett Levin’s majestically restored EMD E8 locomotives asked…
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Canada’s GMD1 diesel locomotive was the first to be completely designed by General Motors Diesel Ltd., Electro-Motive’s subsidiary at London,…
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Women in railroading Research deflates the idea that a woman’s place was in the home in the 19th century. In…
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The best-selling Dash-2 EMD diesel locomotives will come as no surprise to diesel locomotive fans. By the late 1960s,…
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The rainbow fleet — on May 1, 1971, the passenger train at the station was Amtrak, but it sure didn’t…
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What was your first byline in Trains? Brian Solomon: My first photo appeared 1984; this was a black & white…
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