The WW&F Railway (Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington) in Alna, Maine has announced that they will be buying two ballast hoppers from Sandstone Estates in South Africa. These are surplus NGY-1 designated cars that were built by Hudson between 1968 and 1976. They were built to work on the longest 2ft gauge railroad in the world, […]
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The small, privately owned Grey Granite Railroad in Glastonbury, Connecticut has purchased its second steam locomotive, W.T. Smith Lumber Company #7. The 1913 Baldwin-built locomotive was recently up for auction as part of the collection of Royce Kershaw, along with several other pieces of railroad equipment. Joe Cavanna, the new owner of the locomotive, intends
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The Oyster Bay Railroad Museum (OBRM), located on Long Island in New York, has contracted with Next Generation Rail Solutions (NGRS) to cosmetically restore Long Island Railroad (LIRR) steam locomotive No. 35. The awarded contract ends a long waiting period during which the museum went through the process of finding and negotiating with contractors. The
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