The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum (HVRM) in North Judson, Indiana will soon receive a Monon business car and caboose from the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society in Salem, Indiana. Both are planned to be used by the museum in excursion service, with a portion of the ticket sales for rides in the business car to go […]
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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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Pictures have been posted to Facebook of East Broad Top 0-6-0 #3 sitting outside of the Mt. Union, PA engine house. The standard gauge locomotive has called the engine house home since 1956 when the East Broad Top shut down common-carrier operations. #3 was the last locomotive to operate on the railroad before the shutdown.
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The first non-center cab diesel locomotive has arrived at the Arcade & Attica Railroad. A&A #114, an ALCO RS-3, arrived at the railroad on July 13th, 2023. It was bought from the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad where it was numbered 406. It was originally built for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad in September
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The Erie Business Car Society, owners of the Erie 1 car, have relocated to the Ashtabula, Carson & Jefferson Railroad in Northeast Ohio. The society was previously located in Salamanca, New York, where they also had a trooper sleeper car that was being restored. Their new home on the AC&J also gives the society the
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The Everett Railroad in Hollidaysburg, PA has acquired 5 passenger cars from the nearby Altoona Juniata shops in Altoona PA. These shops are operated by Norfolk Southern. The cars are NS 25, NS 37, “The Dunn Wagon”, and two former Ringling Circus cars that hauled elephants. All of the cars have had their interiors gutted
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On July 4th, 2023 the Niagara Railway Museum (NRM) received two 0-6-0 tank engines, formerly from Marineland. The two locomotives became available after the planned railroad at the Marineland theme park was never built and the property was sold, after having been moved there in 1981. Nos. 62.118 & 62.129 were originally built in 1955
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As part of New Jersey Transit’s 40th anniversary celebration, the railroad has donated a 1996 built ALP-44 electric locomotive to the United Railroad Historical Society of NJ (URHS). The locomotive, numbered 4424, arrived at the Boonton, NJ property this past weekend. The ALP-44 is notable in that it was the first new electric type locomotive
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