March 16, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Salt Lake Tribune, March 4, 2015) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The historic moment when two trains met on America’s First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 was awesome. So obviously, Jack Little thinks, we should celebrate it in Legos. Little has designed a...
February 27, 2015 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Citylab, Febraury 25, 2015) NEW YORK — As the story goes, told by David Luberoff in Governing magazine in 1996, when it started, no one thought Amtrak was long for this world. President Nixon’s economic advisors believed the financials of a new national...
February 13, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Chicago Daily Herald, February 11, 2015) CHICAGO — A six-year effort to build a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train car is reaching a near-fever pitch, but funding for a commemorative Washington-to-Springfield trip is $100,000 short of the goal....
February 6, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Roanoke Times, February 6, 2015) ROANOKE, Va. — Members of the African American Norfolk & Western Heritage Group in Roanoke stepped behind a curtain Tuesday morning and took their first look at how the Virginia Museum of Transportation will present their...
February 2, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, January 30, 2015) LINCOLN, Neb. — In order to establish a railroad link between the East and West coasts of the United States, the federal government awarded huge grants of land to provide right of way as well as real estate that could...
February 2, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: The Columbian, January 30, 2015) VANCOUVER, Wash. — The display — “The Northwest’s Own Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway” — was unveiled at 10 a.m. Saturday at Vancouver’s historic train depot. Full story: The...
January 29, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Investor’s Business Daily, January 28, 2015) NEW YORK — E.H. “Ned” Harriman was a railroad titan people hated to love. They found him difficult to get along with and arrogant. But boy, did they admire his ability to turn around dying...
January 26, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Pasadena Star-News, January 23, 2015) PASADENA, Calif. — Archaeologists in San Gabriel have uncovered an important piece of Southern California’s history: the foundation to an ancient water distribution system that has laid buried a few feet beneath the...
January 21, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Television station WDBJ7, January 21, 2015) ROANOKE, Va. — Just in time for Black History Month, the Virginia Museum of Transportation is opening an African-American railway history exhibit. The exhibit is called “From Cotton to Silk: African American...
January 19, 2015 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Baltimore Sun, January 15, 2015) BALTIMORE, Md. — It might deal in an industry’s past, but the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore certainly has its eyes on the future. Full story: Baltimore Sun
