More than 200 Ford Motor Co. employees and community members gathered at Michigan Central Station on Tuesday to celebrate the arrival of certain Ford teams at their new offices.
3 Ford employees share ties to Michigan Central's past on move in day.
For 25 years, a near-mint condition caboose was a familiar landmark at the Owen Lake trailhead east of Laramie, Wyoming. But the Mullen Fire gutted it and the body was too warped to save. It was demolished last week.
The locomotives’ owner was saving one of them, which has some historic value. They’re strapping it on to some sort of big rig and trucking it back down someplace near Stockton. The rest of the engines are being scrapped on-site with heavy machinery.
The Toonerville tours date back to the 1920s, and a century later the experience remained largely unchanged: a quaint train trolley trundled through the pristine Northwoods to a private dock, where passengers then enjoyed a peaceful, narrated riverboat float to a viewing platform for a unique perspective of the stunning Tahquamenon Falls.
The Electric City Trolley Museum of Scranton has donated a rare 1906 semi-convertible streetcar built by J.G. Brill to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, Pa. The car arrived at the museum on August 21.
