May 12, 2022 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Herald Journal, May 11, 2022) PROMONTORY SUMMIT — Lovely springtime weather provided a picturesque backdrop as hundreds gathered at Promontory Summit on Tuesday, May 10 to mark the 153rd anniversary of the completion of the nation’s first transcontinental...
May 6, 2022 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: National Parks Traveler, May 6, 2022) Re-enactments of the “meeting of the rails” back in 1869 will be staged at Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah on Saturday and next Tuesday. On May 10, 1869, locomotives from the Central Pacific and...
May 6, 2022 | Historic/Steam, News
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 6 — On May 8, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) will mark its 159th anniversary. The BLET and its members are proud of our heritage as the oldest labor union in North America. The union was founded as the Brotherhood...
February 22, 2022 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: The Daily Nonpareil, February 20, 2022) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — The Union Pacific Railroad Museum is looking for people who have stories to share about Latino railroad workers in the Midwest. The museum is partnering with the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s...
January 31, 2022 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Historic/Steam
(Source: www.gvwire.com, January 30, 2022) FRESNO, Calif. — More than 80 years ago, California got a glimpse of high-speed rail with Santa Fe steam engine No. 3751. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Pennsylvania for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, the...
October 27, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, NS
(Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 25, 2021) ATLANTA — Next month Norfolk Southern opens its new national headquarters in Atlanta, and to celebrate, the company has donated a massive archive of railway history to the Atlanta History Center. Full story:...
September 28, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: www.cnet.com, September 25, 2021) GREEN BAY, Wisconsin — Under the sprawling train sheds of the National Railroad Museum you’ll find over 100 years of railway history, from steam engines to high-speed diesel-electrics and from classic dining cars to...
September 14, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Railway Age, September 13, 2021) NEW YORK — “The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present,” remarked historian David Thelen. He’s right. But that challenge ramps up by an order of magnitude when history presents itself in...
August 17, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: National Park Service press release, August 12, 2021) CHICAGO — The National Park Service (NPS) and Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) invite the public to celebrate the Grand Opening of Pullman National Monument Visitor Center and State Historic...
May 28, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Irish Central, May 28, 2021) DUBLIN, Ireland — A new book telling the stories of the women who helped build the first transcontinental railroad is a fascinating insight into the lives of 19th-century American women. “Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped...
