Wheeling & Lake Erie’s predecessors
The Wheeling traces its history back to April 6, 1871. It reinvented itself on May 18, 1990. The pdf below…
Read moreThe Wheeling traces its history back to April 6, 1871. It reinvented itself on May 18, 1990. The pdf below…
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George M. Hart Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania LEHIGHTON, Pa. – Legendary Pennsylvania railroad preservationist George Hart, who died Thursday in…
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When Editor Wrinn mentioned his idea for an upcoming editorial (“BNSF, CSX, Please Buy a Vowel,”page 4, February 2008), I…
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I had little interest in trains until I went to college and decided to take Amtrak home for a change.…
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Will the U.S. rails-with-trails movement continue gaining momentum? Or will rail safety and congestion issues stop it in its tracks?…
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At 17 feet, 5 inches, the caboose cleared all bridges and power lines on its 20-mile road trip. Steve Hendrix…
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A westbound Capitol Corridor train, led by Amtrak F59PHI No. 464, makes a fine sight as it curves along the…
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A groundsman watches while an overhead crane lowers another truck trailer onto a flatcar at BNSF’s Willow Springs intermodal facility.…
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Even before he joined Amtrak as a locomotive engineer in 1986, Doug Riddell had been operating the corporation’s passenger trains…
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International steamship companies like Hanjin Shipping contract with U.S. railroads to move containers from ocean ports to inland terminals, and…
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Four-unit locomotive No. 103 of GM’s Electro-Motive Corporation. Electro-Motive FT Tagged “the diesel that did it” by David P. Morgan,…
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