June 27, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Associated Press, June 26, 2018) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The U.S. House has approved a plan to turn northern Utah’s Golden Spike National Historic Site into a park that will boost its prominence. The proposal from Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop would...
June 13, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Atlas Obscura, June 12, 2018) NEW YORK — Seventy years after the first Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, the steep Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Utah were still giving the Union Pacific Railroad trouble. Full story: Atlas...
June 13, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: TAP into Clark, June 12, 2018) TRENTON, N.J. — On June 2, 2018, the State of New Jersey held the Jefferson Awards Ceremony for Public Service at the Trenton War Memorial. Retired BLE International President Ed Dubroski, a resident of Clark, N.J., was the...
June 12, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: National Public Radio, June 11, 2018) DETROIT — A long-shuttered rail depot that had become a symbol of Detroit’s decline will now be part of its resurgence. The building’s new owner will be Ford Motor Company, an automaker with a story that is...
May 16, 2018 | CSX, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Television station WYFF, May 15, 2018) ABBEVILLE, S.C. — After conflicting stories last week from the head of a preservationist group and a railroad company’s media manager, a police report acquired by WYFF News 4 appears to substantiate the preservationist’s...
May 11, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Deseret News, May 10, 2018) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Several members of Utah’s congressional delegation are asking their colleagues to designate the Golden Spike National Historic Site as a national historical park through legislation introduced Thursday....
May 10, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Politico, May 10, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Workers for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads on this day in 1869 watched as a golden spike was driven into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah. Coming some four years after the Civil War, the event...
May 4, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Cornell Chronicle, May 2, 2018) ITHACA, N.Y. — Railroads transformed the world and sped the pace of social change. Newly organized and now available to researchers, the Kheel Center’s railroad collections tell stories about the seismic shifts, catalyzed by...
March 26, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Union Pacific press release, March 22, 2018) OMAHA, Neb. — Since disassembling UP No. 4014, the ‘Big Boy,’ the Union Pacific Steam Team has cleaned, inspected and repaired nearly every part of the locomotive down to its smallest piece. Full story: Union...
March 15, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: www.nj.com, March 14, 2018) NEWARK, N.J. — The back-to-back nor’easters that have battered New Jersey this month with crippling snow and frustrating power outages have at least one, albeit fleeting, silver lining. The famed “ghost tracks”...
