I would go through the process again two years after the BN with the melding of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and the Illinois Central ... railroad in the 1960s and '70s tackled its locomotive ...

Some locomotives took to the high iron as early as January. U.S. Sugar 4-6-2 No. 148's winter hibernation was more like a quick nap after the holiday season. The Pacific-type locomotive has spent ...

William Taylor had an extraordinary life and spent seven years working on the canal. He is buried with his wife Rita in ...

It started much better than it ended. In its final days, the Shawver Hotel was a boarded up, crumbling brick eyesore on the ...

I was making increasingly frequent visits from my central Illinois home up to Galesburg, Chicago, and other nearby busy CB&Q points. Each new or bigger merger-created railroad in the 1960s and ’70s ...

By the early 1800s, the United States and other nations discussed building a waterway through Central America so ... in the division which repaired locomotive steam shovels and other equipment.

Nickel Plate Road No. 765 operates over the Cuyahoga River during the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad’s 2017 “Steam in the ... the holiday season. The Pacific-type locomotive has spent the last three ...

Guests can design their own experience: choose your train journey from a fleet of heritage steam and diesel locomotives ... continue your romance of the railway, upgrading your ride with a ...

When the Kansas Pacific Railway established ... the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad for a scenic excursion through the Kansas countryside. The vintage coaches, pulled by either a diesel locomotive or, ...