April 2, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Salt Lake Tribune, April 2, 2019) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Utah is about to throw a big celebration for the 150th anniversary of the May 10, 1869, completion of the transcontinental railroad. Many realize it was built largely by Chinese immigrants for the...
February 21, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Herald-Dispatch, February 20, 2019) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — There is still some hope that the New River Train might run again. In March 2018, Amtrak imposed new restrictions that eliminated special trains like the New River Train and removed Huntington as a...
February 6, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Billy Penn, February 5, 2019) PHILADELPHIA — The iconic split-flap departures board at 30th Street, which elicited a public outcry when Amtrak dismantled it last month, will be returning to the station as a permanent fixture, officials say. Full story: Billy...
February 4, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Salt Lake Tribune, February 3, 2019) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — They’re extraordinary pieces of history — three gleaming ceremonial spikes that helped celebrate the completion of the transcontinental railroad, now reunited in Utah for the first time in 150 years....
February 4, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: West Virginia Gazette Mail, February 1, 2019) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin says Amtrak has created a financial hardship for the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society, causing its employees to be laid off and the organization to close...
February 1, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: KSL.com, January 31, 2019) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The accounts vary as to exactly how many people attended the merging of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit in northern Utah on May 10, 1869, but the National Park Service...
January 28, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: CBS Philadelphia, January 27, 2019) PHILADELPHIA — The iconic 30th Street Station flipping board is gone. It displayed one final message as workers removed it from its perch Saturday night: “Farewell Philadelphia.” Full story: CBS...
January 25, 2019 | Amtrak, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Billy Penn, January 24, 2019) PHILADELPHIA — Time has run out for the iconic split-flap departures board at 30th Street Station. Photos and videos posted to social media Thursday night showed workers in orange vests and hard-hats methodically dismantling the...
January 4, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: National Public Radio, January 2, 2019) NEW YORK — A 1970s-era status board at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station has been making a familiar clickety-clack sound for decades, but now, as it’s set to be replaced, there’s an effort to save it....
December 10, 2018 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, December 10, 2018) OMAHA, Neb. — From around the bend came the sound of a train whistle and in response, there was a cheer from the hundreds waiting on the snowy ground in downtown Omaha. Union Pacific locomotive No. 4141, the engine that...