May 28, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Richmond.com, May 28, 2014) RICHMOND, Va. — After decades of rust and chipped paint were removed and a few of layers of new paint were added, Chesapeake & Ohio locomotive steam engine No. 2732 again looks ready for service. Full story:...
May 16, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Star Tribune, May 15, 2014) CHEYENNE, Wyo. — View Big Boy 4014, the massive steam engine that recently arrived in Cheyenne for restoration, during Cheyenne’s annual Depot Days festival this weekend. During the two-day event, visitors get once-a-year access to...
May 12, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Green Bay Press Gazette, May 11, 2014) GREEN BAY, Wisc. — Green Bay’s prized historic train engine is on its way back home. After a two-year hiatus at a museum in England, the locomotive named after President Eisenhower is being shipped back to the United...
May 12, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Salt Lake Tribune, May 10, 2014) PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah — In what an organizer called a “photographic act of justice,” some 200 Chinese Americans, Chinese citizens and other Asian American friends posed here Saturday on the 145th anniversary of...
May 9, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Wyoming Tribune Eagle, May 9, 2014) CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Hundreds of people crowded along the railroad tracks Thursday afternoon to watch as one of the largest steam engines ever built rolled into town. Union Pacific steam engine No. 4014, also known as a...
May 9, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Progressive Railroading, May 8, 2014) On May 9, U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez will formally induct into the Labor Hall of Honor about 12,000 Chinese immigrant laborers who worked on the Central Pacific Railroad between 1865 and 1869. The workers are the...
May 8, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Poughkeepsie Journal, May 8, 2014) POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — For city firefighter Michael Marinucci, the acrid smell of the thick, black smoke that lingered over the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge was unforgettable. Roaring flames stayed mostly hidden...
May 6, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Associated Press, May 6, 2014) PROMONTORY, Utah — A re-enactment ceremony on Saturday will mark the 145 years that have passed since the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. The annual May 10 re-enactment of the driving of the Golden Spike has been...
May 5, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Los Angeles Daily News, May 3, 2014) LOS ANGELES — Amy Strand ran her hand over a hinged, wrought-iron door to an electrical panel in the shuttered ticket concourse area of Union Station. Full story: Los Angeles Daily News
April 16, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Associated Press, April 15, 2014) CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The tentative schedule for Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 — which is being towed from Southern California to the railroad’s steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyo. for restoration — is as...
