DAYTON, Tenn. — A diesel switcher from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is now providing switching for a tire manufacturing plant, an operation that helps support the museum while aiding the growth of the factory. The EMD switcher, built in 1951 for the U.S. Army and later used by the U.S. Air Force at Cape […]
WICHITA FALLS, Texas — The city of Wichita Falls should get rid of most of the rolling stock from its defunct railroad museum, an official from the community’s history museum has recommended. The Times Record News reports Madeleine Calcote-Garcia, director of the Museum of North Texas History, made the recommendation at a Tuesday city council […]
NEW YORK — The last of three New York City Transit Museum-sponsored trips using vintage subway equipment drew a sellout crowd on Saturday, Aug. 13, for a trip to the Rockaways. The trip used 1930s Independent R1 through R9 equipment, along with century-old Brooklyn Rapid Transit/Brooklyn Manhattan Transit Co. (BRT/BMT) B-type/Standard equipment — a consist […]
READING, Pa. — A doubleheader of 4-8-4 No. 2102 and 4-6-2 No. 425 made the Saturday, Aug. 13, Reading & Northern Iron Horse Ramble — the third of four scheduled — even more of a special event for railfans in the Northeast, drawing large crowds to see the sold-out excursion. It was the first Reading […]
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society has announced pandemic-delayed winners of its Railroad History awards for 2020, as well as one award for 2019. The awards recognize senior achievement, photography, and book and magazine authors. Winners for 2020 are John P. Hankey of Omaha, Neb., Gerald M. Best Senior Achievement Award; Brian Solomon of Center […]
Five students have received scholarship awards for 2022 from the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society. The awards, to graduate or upper-level graduate students studying railroad history, engineering, or operations, are each worth $3,000. They are given in the name of railroad historians who endowed the awards: Professor George W. Hilton, Edward T. Myers, and Bruce […]
PORT HURON, Mich. — The Port Huron & Detroit Railroad Historical Society, which has dissolved its non-profit organization and is ending operations, has created a heritage organization to receive its remaining assets of more than $85,000. WGRT radio reports the society has created the Tunnel City Railway and Transportation Fund, a collaboration with the Community […]
CAMPO, Calif. — The newest piece of equipment for the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum is arriving at the museum’s Campo location by truck, since there’s no active rail access between the site and San Diego. Recently retired Coaster F40PHM-2C No. 2103 is shown on Interstate 8 at El Cajon, Calif, on Sunday, Aug. 7, during […]
OWOSSO, Mich. — The Steam Railroading Institute (SRI) has launched a fundraising campaign for the restoration of Chicago & North Western R-1 class 4-6-0 No. 175, which the museum acquired in 2018 from the Mineral Range Railroad in Ishpeming, Mich. Built in 1908 by American Locomotive Co. at its Schenectady Works, the 175 was one […]
ALNA, Maine — Volunteers have been working nearly non-stop for several weeks, finishing a number of last-minute details leading up to the Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, opening of the Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum’s Mountain Extension and Trout Brook Station. Two special trains will make the first official runs over the three-quarter-mile extension of […]
William F. Howes, Jr., a longtime Baltimore & Ohio, Chessie System and CSX official, author, and president of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society from 1994 to 2003, died in Jacksonville, Fla., on July 30 at the age of 83. In his career with B&O and Chessie System, he enjoyed a front-row seat at one […]
BLUE ISLAND, Ill. — Metra has broken ground on a $3.8 million rehabilitation of the Vermont Avenue station in Blue Island, a structure dating to 1868 on Metra’s Rock Island District. A Thursday, July 28, ceremony including Metra CEO Jim Derwinski and other state and local officials marked the start of a project including a […]
