NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Five-time Grammy-winning artist Marty Stuart loves a good country ballad, and many of them revolve around trains. Now he and his longtime bandmate, Harry Stinson of the Fabulous Superlatives, have written a song to capture the spirit and history of Nashville’s most iconic steam engine: Locomotive No. 576. The World War II-era […]
LS&I No. 22 is one of the pieces on exhibit at Mid-Continent Railway Museum’s Coach Shed No. 2 that opened Saturday. Trains: Jim Wrinn NORTH FREEDOM, Wis. – For the first time in 43 years, Mid-Continent Railway Museum has added significant indoor exhibit space funded and that hall is funded largely by a bequest from […]
SR 4501 dressed as L&N 1593 departs Chattanooga Saturday. Charles Buccola CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Four years ago, the Louisville & Nashville Historical Society worked with members of the brand-new Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., to cosmetically alter the appearance of C&O number 2716 to resemble an L&N M-1 class 2-8-4, number 1992 (one number higher than […]
N&W 611, shown at Jamestown, N.C., in September 2018, will move to N.C. Transportation Museum after its tour at Strasburg, Pa. Trains: Jim Wrinn SPENCER, N.C. — Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611, restored to life at the N.C. Transportation Museum in 2015, will return to Spencer in 2019 for special events this fall […]
NKP 765 storms along at Cuyahoga Valley in 2018. The engine’s deadhead move today was cut short 30 miles out. Trains: Jim Wrinn NEW HAVEN, Ind. — Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 left home this morning for its annual fall gig at Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad but reversed course after 30 miles on Norfolk […]
A view of Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 before restoration work began in 2015. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad ANTONITO, Colo. – For fans of narrow gauge steam, Colorado might be the place to be this fall. Officials at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad say […]
Kids Wish Network wish recipient Jeremiah McCain is shown on the radio while in the cab of EMD diesel at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum. Kids Wish Network CALERA, Ala. — It was “All aboard!” for Jeremiah McCain and 25 of his closest family and friends during his wish at the Heart of Dixie […]
LS&I 22 will be housed in a building to be dedicated Saturday at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. DRS NORTH FREEDOM, Wis. — Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad No. 22, a 1910 Alco (Pittsburgh) 2-8-0, has been cosmetically restored and is on display in the new Laurence Dorcy Building at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. A gift from Dorcy, […]
ORBISONIA, Pa. — The first East Broad Top Railroad photo event in nearly a decade will offer afternoon and evening shots of a 1918 steam locomotive on the EBT turntable and of the Pennsylvania narrow-gauge railroad’s 1927 gas-electric unit in multiple locations around the Rockhill Furnace yard. Antique vehicles and costumed crew members will be […]
This Milwaukee Road F7, in Monon colors, went unsold at the abandoned equipment auction in Noblesville, Ind. Ozark Mountain NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — The majority of the pieces of rolling stock from the former collection of the Indiana Transportation Museum went unsold at auction this week, which could lead to some of them meeting the scrapper’s […]
FEC 4-6-2 No. 113 is one of 20 pieces of rolling stock available for sale from Florida’s Gold Coast Railroad Museum. Trains: Jim Wrinn MIAMI — Does anyone want to buy a steam locomotive, cab units, or passenger cars in 2019? At Florida’s venerable Gold Coast Railroad Museum, which announced last spring it was slimming […]
Two museums are engaged in a dispute over the restoration and maintenance of Monson No. 3. Stephen Hussar FARMINGTON, Me. — Two of Maine’s narrow-gauge railroad museums are squaring off in a lawsuit with one alleging the other reneged on a 15-year agreement that allowed it to use Monson Railroad No. 3, a 1912 Vulcan […]
