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 Western Maryland Scenic Railroad (WMSR), based in Cumberland, Maryland, has announced that they have acquired the Georges Creek line in Allegany County, Maryland. WMSR will lease the line from the owner, Eighteen Thirty Group, LLC, and operate it as the WSMR Georges Creek Division. Both passenger and freight opportunities have been touted as the
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The Steam Railroading Institute (SRI) in Michigan has received a donation of a SW1200 EMD locomotive from Consumers Energy. Before being donated, the locomotive’s number was changed to 1155, which is the number designation given to steam locomotives built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works for the Pere Marquette railroad. The locomotive was built
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Waterloo Central Railway in St. Jacobs, Ontario, has announced that they have raised the funds to acquire Canadian Pacific No. 1238, a 4-6-2 steam locomotive, and plan to restore it to operation. In July 2023 the railroad announced that it needed $150,000 by December 29 to obtain the locomotive, and that deadline was met. No.
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The Essex Steam Train & Riverboat, also known as the Valley Railroad, has acquired former Frisco steam locomotive no. 1352. 1352 is a 2-8-2 mikado type locomotive that was built as a 2-8-0 in 1912 for the St Louis-San Francisco Railway (a.k.a. the “Frisco”) then rebuilt into a 2-8-2 in 1944. The locomotive was retired
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