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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2012 National Train Day
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Union Pacific 844 July Steam Excursion
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.
Great Locomotive Chase 150th Anniversary
Kennesaw, Georgia museum to celebrate Great Locomotive Chase‘s 150th anniversary.
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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Riding the Orange Blossom Cannonball Florida Steam Train
This was my first chance to ride the Orange Blossom Cannonball, the new 1907 Florida steam train ride departing out of Tavares, Florida near Orlando. My father was spending the winter in the area and this would be a great way to celebrate both of our upcoming birthdays, riding the rails on an early American steam train traveling through the backwoods of Central Florida
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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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Santa Fe 3751 Grand Canyon Limited Steam Excursion
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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NKP 765 Celebrates Norfolk Southern’s 30th Anniversary
NKP 765 set to pull steam excursions
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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At the Throttle Cab Rides Return to N.C. Transportation Museum
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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Railfest 2012 at the Texas State Railroad
The Texas State Railroad will be holding it’s 2012 Railfest at the Rusk Depot over May 5 and 6.
Texas State Railroad's Engine 300 returns its train to the Rusk depot on a sunny spring afternoon. Photo by Jonathan Gerland
Saturday, May 5
- Pineywoods Steam Excursion
11:00am to 3:30pm
Enjoy a steam excursion through the piney woods of East Texas.
Tickets: Click here for ticket prices
- Locomotive Shop Tour
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Explore the locomotive shop in Rusk that houses TSRR‘s engines and rolling stock.
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Soo 2719 Pulls Minnesota Steam Excursions
The Northshore Scenic Railroad will be running six-hour round trip steam excursions from Duluth to Two Harbors, Minnesota behind the 1923 4-6-2 Alco built Soo 2719 steam locomotive. The 2012 steam train rides will run on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays during the months of August and September.
Soo 2719 comes back into town from a day excursion along the north shore of Lake Superior to Two Harbors and back originating at the Depot in downtown Duluth. Photo by Missabefan
Sit back and enjoy the changing countryside as you parallel the shoreline of Lake Superior to historic Two Harbors, Minnesota, pulled by the Pacific class Soo Line 2719 steam locomotive.
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Operate a Steam Locomotive in Pennsylvania
Although the last of the Pennsy steamers only operates on a mile or so of track, she's a great take for photographers because she makes much more frequent runs than a typical tourist line....often, 3-4 per hour. Photo by Kevin Madore
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to operate a steam locomotive and be the engineer on a century old vintage steam engine? Now you can experience the excitement of being able to feel the power of the mighty Iron Horse at your fingertips as you blow the whistle, ring the bell and wave to the passing crowds. Experience this for yourself by signing up for the Locomotive Engineer Experience at Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association. This unique program has been offered for many years with the 1901 Steam Locomotive #643.
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