NORTH WALES – Celebrations of North Wales Borough’s biggest birthday yet are about to kick into high gear. A series of special steam train rides, a fireworks show, and a new book telling tales of the ...
Steam trains, 19th century railways, and majestic redwood forests are all part of America’s unique national treasure. What better way to celebrate each of them than by bringing them together in one ...
The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...
SUNOL — Horatio Ignatius Thompson sauntered up to the train depot ticket window Sunday afternoon, carrying his carpetbag, while the spurs on his boots faintly clinked along. “How do?” he asked the ...
America’s railroads once connected towns, industries, and dreams from coast to coast - and their legacy still rumbles through history. Across the country, remarkable train museums preserve that golden ...
This retro photo, taken from the Trestle Bridge, shows a steam train heading north past Home Sand and Burns Iron in Fremont in the late 1980s. Occasionally, these trains would make runs through towns ...
“An old fashioned steam train, long considered as a means of bringing vacationists from Glenwood Springs to Aspen, has been suggested as the basic public transit system to serve Aspen and Snowmass ...
MACON, Ga. — A steam locomotive near downtown Macon is one step closer to being fixed up, but the county needs more money to fully restore it. Benny A Scott served as one of the first Black locomotive ...
About four years ago, Keith Bass and Aaron McCreight took a trip to Southern Louisiana to buy a tractor. As any mechanically ...
>> [TRAIN WHISTLE] HEATH: THE HAUNTING WAIL, THE STEAM WHISTLE OF SP 745, BUILT HERE IN ALGIERS IN 1921, NOW THE LONE SURVIVING LOUISIANA-BUILT STEAM LOCOMOTIVE, ROLLING RIGHT HERE IN NEW ORLEANS FOR ...
The coal was hot. The crew were ready. On July 3rd, 1938, the 4468 Mallard, an A4-class steam locomotive, was performing an alleged brake test for its London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) owners.
ARCADE, N.Y. — A piece of Western New York history is back on the rails, giving riders the unique opportunity to see fall colors or take a haunted train ride. The iconic whistle is seven years in the ...