Restorations

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 […]

The Pine Creek Railroad of the New Jersey Museum of Transportation (NJMT) has started the operational restoration process of a Central Railroad of New Jersey caboose. The car, numbered 91245, started life in 1874 as a boxcar but it and serval others were converted to wooden cabooses in the early 1900s. The car worked was

The Mid-Continent Railway museum has announced that Montana and Western No. 31 will be restored to operating condition. The gas-electric motor car was built in 1925 for the Great Northern Railway as No. 2313 and replaced 2-3 car passenger trains across the network. It was donated to Mid-Continent in 1966 and did initially haul passengers

Rio Grande Southern (RGS) No. 41 has returned to the Calico Railroad at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Since early 2022 she has been in Durango, CO at the Durango & Silverton Railroad (D&S) receiving an overhaul in conjunction with her 1472 day inspection. RGS 41 is an oil-burning, 2-8-0 locomotive, classified as

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe #1010 will be returned to operation by the California State Railroad museum. The news was announced in the Fall/Winter 2023 issue of the museum’s On Track publication. This will be the largest steam restoration done by the museum since it opened. The locomotive was built by Baldwin in 1901 for

Santa Fe #93, an EMD FP45 diesel locomotive at the Great Plains Transportation Museum (GPTM) in Wichita, Kansas, will be getting a new lease on life thanks to a Hollywood star. Actor and railfan Michael Gross is helping the museum kick off a fundraising effort to cosmetically restore the locomotive. The goal of the campaign