February 22, 2022 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: The Daily Nonpareil, February 20, 2022) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — The Union Pacific Railroad Museum is looking for people who have stories to share about Latino railroad workers in the Midwest. The museum is partnering with the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s...
January 31, 2022 | Headlines, High Speed Rail, Historic/Steam
(Source: www.gvwire.com, January 30, 2022) FRESNO, Calif. — More than 80 years ago, California got a glimpse of high-speed rail with Santa Fe steam engine No. 3751. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Pennsylvania for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, the...
October 27, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, NS
(Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 25, 2021) ATLANTA — Next month Norfolk Southern opens its new national headquarters in Atlanta, and to celebrate, the company has donated a massive archive of railway history to the Atlanta History Center. Full story:...
September 28, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: www.cnet.com, September 25, 2021) GREEN BAY, Wisconsin — Under the sprawling train sheds of the National Railroad Museum you’ll find over 100 years of railway history, from steam engines to high-speed diesel-electrics and from classic dining cars to...
September 14, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Railway Age, September 13, 2021) NEW YORK — “The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present,” remarked historian David Thelen. He’s right. But that challenge ramps up by an order of magnitude when history presents itself in...
August 17, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: National Park Service press release, August 12, 2021) CHICAGO — The National Park Service (NPS) and Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) invite the public to celebrate the Grand Opening of Pullman National Monument Visitor Center and State Historic...
May 28, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Irish Central, May 28, 2021) DUBLIN, Ireland — A new book telling the stories of the women who helped build the first transcontinental railroad is a fascinating insight into the lives of 19th-century American women. “Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped...
May 5, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Standard-Examiner, May 4, 2021) OGDEN, Utah — Two years ago, tens of thousands of people from all over the world gathered at an out of the way, desolate area of high ground in Box Elder County to celebrate one of the most consequential feats of engineering in...
April 23, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Freight Waves, April 22, 2021) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Soo Line Railroad (SOO) is the primary U.S. subsidiary rail-road of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), controlled by CP through its Soo Line Corpora-tion. Early in its history the MStP&SSM became...
March 17, 2021 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Freight Waves, March 12, 2021) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Wooden railroads were also built in the American colonies and were built exclusively to transport freight. Termed “wagonways,” the earliest were begun in the 1720s. In addition to the British and colonists...
