National Railway Museum Celebrates Refurbishment And Award Win
During the 2012-13 financial year, the museum’s conference centre hosted 20,000 corporate hire visitors and in April 2013 underwent a refurbishment to further enhance its facilities.
Source: Conference News, London, , United Kingdom
Posted on May 23, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Rosenberg Railroad Museum To Train Volunteers As Docents
On Saturday June 1, the Rosenberg Railroad Museum will begin training volunteers to serve as docents. “We are looking to increase our volunteer base and continue to grow our education program at the museum” stated Board President Bill Rickert.
Source: Fort Bend Star, Stafford, TX, U. S. A.
Posted on May 23, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Railroad Museum Community Appreciation Day
......kick off almost $1-million for the next round of new construction and historic preservation work at the historic railroad site.
Source: Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, IA, USA
Posted on May 22, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Museum Exhibit In Waukegan Recalls Era Of Electric Trains And North Shore Line
Fifty years after the North Shore Line passed into history, the memories of both its sights and sounds remain vivid for Joe Piersen, who grew up within earshot of the Electroliners racing between Chicago and Milwaukee.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times, , IL, USA
Posted on May 21, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Former Railroad Station May Be Home To Museum
The Railroad Museum and restoration of the front of the Priest Theater are two projects earmarked by the CRA.
Source: Alachua County Today, Alachua, FL, U. S. A.
Posted on May 17, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Kingston's Trolley Museum Marking 30th Anniversary (Video)
Even though construction of the museum began in 1983, and it wasn’t occupied until 1988, the group behind the project has existed since being formed in 1955 in Brooklyn, McGrew said.
Back then, he said, the group would store trolleys on whatever tracks it could find.
Source: Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, USA
Posted on May 17, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Railroad Museum Celebrates 5th Anniversary Saturday
The Museum was opened in 2008 and houses Reading Railroad locomotives, railroad artifacts, archival materials, and museum exhibits.
Source: Pottstown Mercury, Pottstown, PA, U. S. A.
Posted on May 16, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Video/Enthusiasts Delighted As Steam Train Chugs Through Town
Word that Engine 765 was on its way from Ohio lured train buffs to railroad crossings up and down the line.
Source: KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Posted on May 14, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Free Allergy Testing Offered At Railway Museum
APG will make a donation to the museum for each person tested. “We raise money, but we also introduce the museum to some folk who might not have visited if we hadn't offered the testing and free admission,” Southeastern Railway Administrator Randy Pirkle said. “It’s a great opportunity for us to offer a little extra to our visitors, and open up transportation history to a wider audience.”
Source: Buford Patch, Buford, GA, U. S. A.
Posted on May 13, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Video/Jim Murray, Jr. R. I. P.
The day before his stroke, Jim Murray was working on a railroad car renovation.
“He was out there all the time working on the museum stuff. He was out there all the time,” Anne Murray said.
Source: NewsOK, , OK, USA
Posted on May 13, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Boonsboro Council To Give $45,000 For Museum
The organization has already raised some money, which was used to make roof and window improvements on the building next to the Boonsboro Trolley Museum near the entrance to Shafer Memorial Park, said Boonsboro Council member Barbara Wetzel.
Source: Herald-Mail, Hagerstown, Maryland, USA
Posted on May 13, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Rail Museum Star Attraction Restored
Described as a unique rail-cum-road-borne railway system, PSMT is the only remaining working locomotive that uses the single-track Ewing system.
Source: The Hindu, , , India
Posted on May 12, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Volunteer Opportunities: May 12, 2013
YAKIMA TROLLEYS — Yakima Valley Trolleys need motormen to drive trolleys, body repair persons to restore metal streetcar bodies, linemen to restore overhead wire, landscapers for around the powerhouse and car barn and carpenters to replace a 20-by-28-foot car barn floor. Our mission is to restore downtown Yakima trolley service and reopen the line to Selah. Call Karl Pasten at 509-949-4233 or email kpasten@aol.com.
Source: Yakima Herald, Yakima, WA, U. S. A.
Posted on May 12, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
PERRIS: Museum Sets Annual Spring Rail Festival
There will be live bluegrass music, food vendors and special train exhibits. Take the kids for a ride on a hand car.
Source: Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California, USA
Posted on May 11, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Rare Passenger Coach Arrives In Granby
GRANBY — A 108-year-old first-class passenger coach arrived in Granby on Tuesday, May 7, as the latest addition to the holdings of the Moffat Road Railroad Museum.
Source: WJHL, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
Posted on May 11, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Lincoln's Funeral Train
Mystery surrounding Lincoln's funeral train resolved.
Source: MSNBC, , , USA
Posted on May 10, 2013 by Doug Bailey
Letting Off Steam At North Yorkshire Moors Railway Party
Tourists packed Pickering in the North of England at the weekend for the 40th anniversary celebrations of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
Source: Gazette & Herald, Malton, North Yorkshire, UK
Posted on May 9, 2013 by Richard Buckby
Arizona Railway Museum In Chandler Will Celebrate National Train Day
Also on display will be a PCC Streetcar, that Phoenix sold to the museum for $1, and a one-of-a-kind passenger caboose, the TC&GB (Tucson Cornelia and Gila Bend), which served the Phelps Dodge copper mine in Ajo and ran between Ajo and Gila Bend.
Source: Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posted on May 8, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
Cincinnati Streetcar Rolls Out At Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
Above, Bill Bowser, left, and Lewis Lockwood, both of Cincinnati, shoot video on the maiden ride of the restored Cincinnati streetcar
Source: Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Posted on May 8, 2013 by Sloan Auchincloss
BNSF Foundation Donates $10,000 Toward Purchase Of Historic Postcards
Tom Mulvaney, of East Helena, spent 30 years collecting nearly 32,000 postcards dating from 1898 into the 1970s and covering a wide range of topics – from railroads, mining and agriculture to commerce, Western life and Native Americans. Monday, the Montana Historical society got a stop closer to being able to purchase that collection – which was professionally appraised at $436,767 – with a $10,000 donation from Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Mulvaney has offered the collection to the Society for $300,000, and MHS needs about $50,000 to complete the acquisition.
Source: Independent Record, Helena, Montana, USA
Posted on May 7, 2013 by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
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