The Emery Rail Heritage Trust has awarded $60,000 in grants to Friends of the 261 and the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) to fund Positive Train Control (PTC) on two historic steam ...
IF you’re a train fanatic, or know someone who is, then this could be the perfect gift – or make it a great day out for ...
Watertown, a town in Wilson County of about 1,550 residents as of the 2020 census, experiences a tourism boon 16-18 Saturdays per year when the train comes to town. The Tennessee Railway Museum's ...
It was like Christmas morning for Maxwell Merry. His mom, Jordan, said Max was up at 5 a.m. and ready to head out to be one of the first train enthusiasts in northern Ohio to greet the Nickel Plate ...
A heritage railway in the Lake District is giving visitors the chance to take the controls of a steam locomotive.
Real trains were a major mode of transportation for my parents. Many boys in my generation spent hours engaged with model trains. The next generation was mildly connected to them. More recently, ...
Being pulled by another train, the Norfolk & Western 611 steam locomotive sped past onlookers Thursday on its way to the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. The steam engine, built in 1950, ...
Steam turbine-powered locomotives never really caught on. Similar to gas turbine engines, steam turbines are efficient at certain rpm, and extremely inefficient at many others. At high speeds, they ...