December 7, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: The Eagle, December 6, 2018) COLLEGE STATION, Texas — On a rainy Thursday afternoon, Union Pacific 4141 pulled into College Station to bring former President George H.W. Bush to his final home at his presidential library on the campus of Texas A&M. Full...
December 7, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: ABC News, December 6, 2018. BLET Editor’s Note: June Nobles is a member of BLET Division 139 in Houston, Texas.) HOUSTON, Texas — Arrangements for his presidential funeral train took years of complicated planning, but one detail worked out just the way...
December 7, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Houston Chronicle, December 6, 2018) HOUSTON, Texas — In Stetsons and waistcoats, Astros gear and flag-print hoodies, thousands of Texans lined up along the sides of small-town train tracks Thursday to mourn their former president, the home-grown politician...
December 6, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Associated Press, December 5, 2018) AUSTIN, Texas — The locomotive was painted to resemble Air Force One, but George H.W. Bush joked that if it had been around during his presidency, he may have preferred to ride the rails rather than take to the skies. On...
October 25, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Stanford University press release, October 23, 2018) STANFORD — To the Stanford Historical Society, the 800-member organization that encourages the study and understanding of Stanford’s history, the 150th anniversary of the completion of the First...
August 20, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Salt Lake Tribune, August 17, 2018) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — So, Gov. Gary Herbert, what is Utah going to do with the $1 million that Union Pacific Railroad is donating to the state? Full story: Salt Lake Tribune
July 27, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Denver Post, July 26, 2018) DENVER, Colo. — The 56-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a Union Pacific historic steam train returning from Cheyenne Frontier Days has been identified. Kelly Michelle Yarish, of Brighton, died from multiple blunt force...
July 24, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: News Observer, July 23, 2018) RALEIGH, N.C. — Now that passengers are catching Amtrak trains at Raleigh Union Station, the city’s old brick train depot on Cabarrus Street will soon be demolished. But not all of the 68-year-old station is headed to a landfill....
July 23, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Associated Press, July 22, 2018) PORTLAND, Maine — Amtrak is bringing back a 1950s-era domed railcar that offers panoramic views for riders of a New England train. Full story: Tampa Bay Times
July 23, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: The Denver Channel, July 22, 2018) DENVER — Investigators say the pedestrian that was struck and killed by one of Union Pacific’s historic steam trains was taking pictures of the locomotive and apparently ventured too close to the tracks. Full story:...
