May 27, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2015) SAN FRANCISCO — The greatest engineering feat of the 19th century began in 1863, when the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads broke ground. Two years later, contractors began hiring large numbers of Chinese...
May 27, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Florida Today, May 24, 2015) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The NASA Railroad has reached the end of its line. Last month, the Florida East Coast Railway pulled NASA locomotives No. 1 and No. 3 from Kennedy Space Center on their way to new homes. Their departure...
May 11, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Standard Examiner, May 11, 2015) PROMONTORY, Utah — The sign could read: “Middle of Nowhere – next left.” The ironic isolation of the Golden Spike National Historic Site is not lost on the visitor making the trip to the legacy 32 miles west of Brigham...
May 8, 2015 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: CNN, May 8, 2015) CHICAGO — The romance of a train trip cannot be denied. While local municipalities debate regional transit and Amtrak fights for funding in Congress, trains continue to fascinate adult and child-sized enthusiasts alike. That’s why...
April 20, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Voice of America, April 20, 2015) NEW YORK — Each week, we tell about American expressions and where they come from. Today we talk about railroads. Railroads were important to the development of the United States. The first U.S. railroads were built in eastern...
April 16, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, NS
(Source: Norfolk Southern press release, April 16, 2015) NORFOLK, Va. — The 611 is going home again, coming back from its second restoration to headline Norfolk Southern’s 21st Century Steam excursions in 2015. Sixty-five years after the Class J 611 was built at...
April 14, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Marietta Daily Journal, April 12, 2015) MARIETTA, Ga. — City officials are trying to find a way to bring a runaway train back to Kennesaw to live with its sister train. Kennesaw’s The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History owns The General, one...
March 26, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: West Virginia MetroNews, March 24, 2015) CASS, W.Va. — The West Virginia Central Railroad is preparing for the first full season of operation of the Cass Scenic Railroad. Last year the Department of Commerce transferred the operation of the historic mountain...
March 24, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Gothamist, March 24, 2015) NEW YORK — A few years ago, the Nat Geo team started working on a project in which they hoped to film the big reveal of an old 1830s train believed to be underneath Atlantic Avenue, in an unexplored and currently inaccessible part...
March 23, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Associated Press, March 21, 2015) ELGIN, Ill. — A hefty fundraising shortfall has dashed plans to send a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train car to trace the journey that brought the assassinated president’s body back to Springfield,...
