Florida’s one of a kind Orange Blossom Cannonball steam engine No. 2 has been transported back to the Reader Railroad headquarters in Arkansas for its annual inspection. The inspection was expected to take 6 to 7 weeks to complete. Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad assured its fans that safety was their number one priority in everything they do.
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The 2012 steam excursions schedule for Norfolk Southern employees this spring and summer has been tentatively announced. There will also be several events where the locomotives will be on display for rail fans along with several opportunities to see both steam locomotives in action.
Soo Line 2-8-2 No. 1003 underwent a series of test firings last week at the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford. With assistance from Wisconsin & Southern Railroad President Bill Gardner, the locomotive is being rebuilt by 1003 Operations, LLP, at a cost of approximately $400,000.
Now in its 5th year, National Train Day is back to celebrate train travel and the ways trains touch the lives of people with events across America. This year, festivities will highlight the unique perspective passengers enjoy as they take in the vastness and beauty of the American landscape, from cities big and small, to country vistas and everything in between, when traveling by rail.
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Tickets are now on sale at the Cheyenne Depot Museum for a one way Union Pacific 844 steam excursion on July 22. The trip will be to ferry the locomotive and cars from Denver to Cheyenne following the Denver Post Frontier Days Train the day before. Buses will be available to shuttle passengers from Cheyenne for the return trip to Denver and Denver area residents south after arrival in Cheyenne.
The General locomotive, one of the largest artifacts of the Civil War, is a prized piece in the collection at the Kennesaw Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History. The steam engine will be the centerpiece of an April celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Great Locomotive Chase.
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Birthday wishes going out to my dad on the Orange Blossom Cannonball, March 17,2012
We were going to be stepping back in time, traveling aboard the Orange Blossom Cannonball, that currently departs the Tavares Depot on Saturdays and Sundays. This leisurely trip riding in wooden passenger cars, originally built for the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf Railroad in 1915, turned out to be a very relaxing and fun. The MD&G was a predecessor of the Kansas City Southern Railroad. Just listening to that steam engine’s whistle at each road crossing brought back memories of long ago as we rolled along the Florida country side.
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The Arizona Centennial Commission has declared that the “Grand Canyon Limited” is now an Official Event of the 2012 Arizona Celebrations and the Santa Fe 3751 steam locomotive will run a 6 day steam train ride May 14-19 to the Grand Canyon.
Double heading with Santa Fe 3751, Grand Canyon Railway 4960 is leading the way back from the Grand Canyon as part of the 2002 NRHS Convention. Photo by Drew Jacksich
Operating plans call for the Grand Canyon Limited to be pulled by ATSF 3751, the first of 65 BLW 4-8-4 steam locomotives delivered to the Santa Fe beginning in 1927, from Los Angeles to Arizona via Parker and return.
Additional operating plans call for a round-trip doubleheader operation with the former BLW CB&Q No.4960, a 1923 2-8-2 steam locomotive, on the Grand Canyon Railroad between Williams and the Grand Canyon South Rim.
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for employees celebrating Norfolk Southern’s 30 years of service.
Nickel Plate 765 Photo by Mitch Goldman
The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society is proud to announce that the 1944 restored Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive No. 765 has been selected to help celebrate Norfolk Southern’s 30th Anniversary.The locomotive will pull special business trains operating out of the railroad’s terminals in Fort Wayne, Elkhart, and Muncie, Indiana as well as in Bellevue and Toledo, Ohio.
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North Carolina Transportation Museum
Spencer, North Carolina
At the Throttle cab rides are back at the N.C. Transportation Museum and this is your chance to be the engineer on the Lehigh Valley Coal #126 steam engine.
This is the original builders photo taken in 1931 when the engine was ready for delivery. It was obtained from the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware.
This is a unique opportunity to live your dream of running a steam locomotive, and taking a trip back in time to the golden age of railroading. Take the throttle for a full half hour cab ride while operating the former Lehigh Valley Coal Company No. 126 steam engine. You will be accompanied be a qualified engineer that will be in the cab with you at all times.
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