Kentucky Steam lands $1.9 million grant for ‘Yard’ project, 2716 restoration
RAVENNA, Ky. — The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. has received a $1.9 million grant to aid in the restoration of…
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Locomotive paint schemes In an era when passengers and passenger trains were an important part of the revenue stream, railroads…
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Bellevue Yard It’s over 5 miles long. It’s capable of serving a hundred trains a day. It’s the center point…
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Does the world need another book about the Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge? Someone might reasonably…
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Mind-blowing facts about the GM Aerotrain By the 1950s it was clear that the passenger train was not the wave…
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HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — The effort to turn the former Saluda Grade into a hiking and biking trail has received an…
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Iowa Traction Railway has received the inaugural “Outstanding Railroad Historic Preservation Award,” presented Monday at the opening…
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EMD F2 diesel locomotive For a number of years, there was a streamlined diesel road locomotive hiding in plain sight,…
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I wrote last month about working grain trains west as a young brakeman. This month’s story, entitled “Trust me,” is…
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EDMONTON — Canadian National has donated a former British Columbia Railway C40-8M locomotive — a wide-cab locomotive featuring the “Draper…
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Erie Railroad history starts, surprisingly, with a canal. “The Work of the Age” was a proclamation by New…
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For much of the first half of the 20th century, the 2-8-2 Mikado was the dominant freight locomotive of the…
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