Seven cars that were originally built for the New York Central have been acquired by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) from the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum. These cars were built in 1941 for the Empire State Express, a passenger train running out of New York City and known for being led […]
BNSF has donated locomotive #1205 to the Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM) in Oklahoma City. The locomotive was originally built in 1957 as a conventional GP9 for the Canadian Pacific. It was originally re-built into a GG20B “Green Goat” battery-hybrid locomotive by Railpower Inc. for CP in 2006, but was never delivered and never used in
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The “Rocket”, a 1838 British locomotive built for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, has left its home at the Franklin Institute where it resided for 90 years. It will be traveling to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (RRMPA) where it will be displayed in the Rolling Stock Hall. The locomotive was the first of 8
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Norfolk and Western 4-8-4 #611, owned by the Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT), is scheduled to pull excursions on the Virginia Scenic Railway in Fall 2023. The Virginia Scenic Railroad is the public excursion arm of the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Virginia, and will host the 611 throughout October and November. Excursions start on October
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