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Roundhouse nearly completed, accepting bookings
Although the horseshoe shaped building will provide a safe exhibit space for vintage railway cars, it will also become a destination for all kinds of festivities
Source: Chief, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Posted on 3/9/2010
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Steam locomotives, and their fans, to gather in Sunol
This unusual gathering features four restored iron horses, besting by one the first Steamfest in 2007. Mason County Logging No. 7, part of a Willits-based private collection, will this year join three other similar-sized small steamers featured at the inaugural event.
Source: Tribune, Oakland, California, USA
Posted on 3/7/2010
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New life for old Aberdeen train station
Members of the Historical Society of Harford County and the Aberdeen Room Archives and Museum rallied to help preserve the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad station in Aberdeen, currently a battered but historic hulk that has suffered from years of neglect.It is now on the verge of an extensive restoration and a new tomorrow.
Source: Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Posted on 3/7/2010
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Funding To Restore Locomotive
$116,000 from the Federal Transportation Enhancement Program will be used to restore the Yosemite Lumber #4 Shay Locomotive being housed at the Sierra Logging Museum in White Pines.
Source: My Mother Lode dot Com, Sonora, California, USA
Posted on 3/6/2010
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Royal Exhibition at the Dutch Railway Museum
This year, the Dutch Railway Museum will be organising a major international exhibition on royal trains under the title: Royal Class, regal journeys. For the first time ever, historical royal trains from all over Europe can be seen in a single exhibition.
Source: PR Newswire, USA
Posted on 3/6/2010
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National Capital Trolley Museum in Colesville reopens
After being closed for a little more than a year, the National Capital Trolley Museum in the Colesville section of Silver Spring has reopened in a new building not far from the original site.
Source: Washington Post, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Posted by Wesley Paulson on 3/5/2010
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No 2010 state rail funding for Sauk
If the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad wants to rebuild the Sauk City rail bridge before June 2011, it won’t happen with funding from the state’s track rehabilitation program. Last year, the railroad attempted to rally public support in the Sauk Prairie community for repairing the bridge by announcing a plan with the Mid-Continent Railway Museum to run passenger trains between new rail museums that would be built in both Sauk City and Mazomanie.
Source: Sauk Prairie Eagle, Sauk City, WI, USA
Posted on 3/5/2010
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Trains, maps, railway artifacts — but no museum
The Niagara Railway Museum has an ever-expanding collection of railway artifacts.To see its steam locomotive, however, you have to travel to Orillia.Viewing another locomotive involves a trip to Capreol, near Sudbury.While the museum has a huge amount of items, it has yet to find a permanent home so many of the larger pieces are scattered across Ontario.
Source: Welland Tribune, Canada
Posted on 3/5/2010
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[Marine Preservation] USS Olympia seeks a new caretaker
The USS Olympia was the Navy's state-of-the-art flagship, a source of pride for a country flexing its muscles.More than a century later, this last surviving vessel of the Spanish-American War fleet and longtime Penn's Landing attraction is looking for a new home and benefactor with deep pockets.
Source: Philly.com, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Posted by James Hefner on 3/4/2010
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Saving the 'gateway'
For many, like Alberg, the train depot served as a gateway to Northfield, the lens through which travelers, students and uncountable visitors were introduced to the community. For that reason, architect Steve Edwins and his fellow “Save the Depot” committee members say, the 122-year-old building is historically significant and worth preserving. The committee, which consists of Edwins and community members Lynn Vincent, Rob Martin, Pat Allen, Chip DeMann, Alice Thomas and Clark Webster, hopes to raise $200,000 to $300,000 to move the old depot from its current location, restore it and put it to use in the community as an events venue, a museum, a visitors center or in some other function.
Source: Northfield News, Northfield, MN, USA
Posted by o anderson on 3/2/2010
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Historic covered bridge ready to collapse
The Cottage Grove [OR] City Council passed an emergency resolution Tuesday night to speed up removal of the long-neglected 125-year-old span over the Willamette River. But the plan must first be approved by state and federal regulators.
Source: KVAL CBS 13, Eugene, OR, USA
Posted by o anderson on 3/2/2010
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Passengers escape serious injury in VIA derailment
Weary passengers alighted a coach and trooped into Central Station in Montreal Thursday morning, six hours after their VIA Rail train derailed in St. Charles de Bellechasse, about 25 kilometres southweast of Quebec City.
Source: Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posted by ROSS PINYAN on 2/25/2010
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Building History: A father-and-son team puts heritage trolleys back on city streets
The Mendenhalls also own a 1908 Turtleback streetcar that once operated in Tacoma, and now sits in storage on a field in Rockport, Wash. They have restored heritage streetcars and locomotives in Detroit, Kansas City, Ottumwa (Iowa), South Carolina, Quebec, and Whitehorse (Yukon Territory of Canada).
Source: Tacoma Daily Index, Tacoma, WA, United States
Posted on 2/22/2010
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Snowfall muffles museum's 160th anniversary
Last Thursday was the 160th anniversary of the opening of the historic President Street train station, home of Baltimore's Civil War Museum, but nobody did much celebrating.The small brick structure at 601 President St. was condemned by the city Feb. 12. It is just one of several historic buildings, including the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, damaged by the back-to-back storms that dumped about 40 inches of snow in Central Maryland.
Source: Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Posted on 2/22/2010
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Northern Maine stands to lose rail service by summer
The collapse of the housing market is largely to blame for a railroad company’s plans to abandon miles of track in the northern third of Maine that have served the region for more than a century carrying potatoes, paper, lumber and countless other products. The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway has filed notice with the federal Surface Transportation Board that it intends to abandon 233 miles of track that stretch from Madawaska to Millinocket.
Source: Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine, USA
Posted by ROSS PINYAN on 2/22/2010
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JCDA hoping to save historic train depot with city’s help
Johnson City leaders could help transform the city’s historic train depot, but first they have to front the Johnson City Development Authority $369,900. The JCDA will continue its efforts to salvage the vacant depot along State of Franklin Road by requesting a loan from the city.
Source: TriCities.com, USA
Posted on 2/19/2010
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Sending out the wrong signal
Rail bosses have been urged to backtrack over plans to demolish an ''iconic'' signal box at one of the Highlands' best kept stations.
Source: Lochaber News, Fort William, Highland Region, Scotland, U.K.
Posted by Richard Buckby on 2/19/2010
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City takes ownership of railway company assets
The Tuscumbia City Council voted Monday to take over ownership of all Tuscumbia Railway Co. Inc. The city also takes over possession of four train cars at the Old Train Depot on Fifth Street and a turntable that will be part of an authentic roundhouse.
Source: Times Daily, Florence, Alabama, USA
Posted on 2/18/2010
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Railway museum wants $220,000
The Oregon Coast Historical Railway Museum is seeking as much as $220,000 from the Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency to upgrade the facility.The money would be used to build a train shed, pave part of the display area and spruce up the museum
Source: Worldlink.com, Oregon, USA
Posted on 2/18/2010
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Idle firm builds up head of steam
One of Bradford’s oldest companies, which specialises in making and repairing boilers for heritage steam railways, has landed a major new order.Israel Newton and Sons, based at All Alone Road, Idle, is to make a new boiler for a reproduction 19th Century steam locomotive being built for the Corris Railway Society
Source: Bradford Telegraph Argus, Bradford , England, UK
Posted on 2/18/2010
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Coos Bay to museum: Look for grants
The Oregon Coast Historical Railway Museum in Coos Bay went before the Coos Bay Urban Renewal Agency on Tuesday evening requesting as much as $220,000 for upgrades.
Source: Worldlink.com, Oregon, USA
Posted on 2/18/2010
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