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July 3, 2023
Heber Valley Repaints Pan Am Heritage Unit Black and Gold
The railroad rolled out former Pan Am 52 — now renumbered 5926 — on Monday afternoon.
July 3, 2023
NJ Transit Donates ALP-44 to URHS
The locomotive will be available for public viewing at URHS’s Railroad Museum [For A Day] festival on September 24.
June 30, 2023
Grants Aids Keokuk Depot Effort as Match Grant Deadline Nears
The station may have been the last building designed by John Wellborn Root of Burnham & Root, Chicago’s premiere 19th Century architectural firm.
June 30, 2023
Clean Up Continues As MRL, BNSF Get Creative Detouring Around Collapsed Bridge
As of Thursday, five of the ten rail cars that had fallen into the Yellowstone River had been removed.
June 29, 2023
Center for Railroad Photography & Art Launches New Digital Archive
The new collections management system has been in the works for over a year.
June 28, 2023
CPKC Releases New Paint Scheme
CPKC employees voted on a new paint scheme that was released on Wednesday.
June 28, 2023
Mt. Washington Cog Keeps Steam Working on Northeast’s Tallest Peak
Along with morning and evening runs, the Cog is running steam halfway up the mountain in the middle of the day.
June 27, 2023
G&W to Purchase Dash 8, Dash 9 Locomotives from Wabtec
The order comes six months after G&W was told by the EPA to scrap 88 older locomotives.
June 27, 2023
CPKC, CSX to Develop Hydrogen Locomotives
CSX will convert one of its diesel locomotives using a hydrogen conversion kit developed by CPKC.
June 26, 2023
Canadian Pacific 2816 Steams Following Rebuild
Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 2816 ran for the first time Saturday following an extensive overhaul in Calgary.
