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A thrilling ride on a high-steed steam locomotive is featured in this article from June 1950 Trains Magazine by then-Editor ...
Penn State has been in the news recently with plans to shrink the number of its Commonwealth Campuses, but a program in one ...
Lionel has revived its classic O gauge model of the Pennsylvania RR S2 Steam Turbine. I recently shared the story behind the outstanding versions cataloged by Lionel during its golden age of the 1940s ...
The National Railway Historical Society, Railway Age and Railway Track & Structures have awarded Reading Blue Mountain & ...
home in 2008, they found the rusted remnants of train tracks where a previous ... The train itself is a faux-steam, battery-powered locomotive and caboose with two riding cars.
The Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway in Jim Thorpe celebrated its 20th anniversary on Memorial Day weekend. The LGSR story began ...
But after a spectacular, time-consuming and meticulous $3 million effort, including about $1.5 million from the Wagner Foundation, the 1385 steam ... locomotive was a workhorse. It pulled cars on the ...
so it will now serve postwar collectors plus users of Trains.com as the foundation of this article. According to Keith, Lionel’s model of the Pennsylvania RR S2 Steam Turbine was the company’s first ...
A 100-ton locomotive derailed in Somerset Township, Pennsylvania, after a collision ... On March 10, a coal-laden triaxle truck t-boned the train, CSX L100, derailing the train, pushing the ...
All aboard! Southern Pacific Engine No. 1238 is departing from Fresno to its final destination in Kingsburg.Thehistoric steam locomotive that has sat behind a ...
The remaining 25% consists of new parts built to the exact specifications from when it was constructed in 1907 at American Locomotive Co.’s Schenectady Works in New York. The goal is to get the steam ...