Railway Preservation News via ongoing blogs

o anderson · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:57 am

Wasatch Railroad Contractors
http://projects.wrrc.us/

Rayonier Willamette #2
http://www.mrsr.info/willamette/blog/

Wheels Museum, Albuquerque
http://www.wheelsmuseum.org/blog/

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:42 am

I've added some of the ones posted after I created the bundle. I also removed the WW&F discussion group because there are a lot of posts that are chat between members and not really news. I'm torn about the NYC tugboat one because it is not rail preservation in one sense but it is at a different level. I might wait and see how often posts come through and if they are real restoration news before I pull the plug on that one.

I am new to this bundle concept and when I make a change I have to wait a few days until some new posts come through to understand how it all works. This is my learning curve. I do intend to keep up with it so if you have any additional feedback or suggestions please let me know.

PCook · **Joined:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:16 am **Posts:** 2127

The New York Central tugboat has a pair of six cylinder Detroit Diesel 110's? Wow, just like a Budd RDC.

PC

o anderson · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:43 am

Alberta Railway Museum
http://www.railwaymuseum.ab.ca/?q=blog

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=453533622

Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Museum
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=499913032

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:00 pm

I have added a few more of the recently posted blogs. I'll add the rest of the new ones later today. I am eager to see new posts come through now that I have made some changes. There were a few blogs that I was not able to include because the rss feed was not enabled.

Also, if you have a custom homepage with google, yahoo, or one of the others you can add the Railway Preservation Bundle right to your homepage.

o anderson · **Posted:** Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:54 am

Placerville and Sacramento Valley (a blog more about the entire Placerville branch, but more about the Folsom group than the El Dorado and Western.
http://placervillebranch.blogspot.com/

o anderson · **Posted:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:54 pm

Blog with frequent preservation and tourist railroad info for the North Carolina area:
http://tarheeltrains.wordpress.com/

Steven M Harvey · **Joined:** Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:27 am **Posts:** 24

Here is the American Steam Railroads site. Project 1352 for Frisco Mike.

http://www.americansteamrailroad.org/default.aspx

Steven H.

tomgears · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:30 am

I've added a few more blogs to my Railway Preservation Bundle. The link is here:
http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/use ... eservation

The American Steam Railroads site and the ones using myspace are not providing a RSS feed so they will not work with the bundle. There are now a total of 31 feeds going into the bundle covering steam locomotives, museums, trolleys, operating railroads, restoration contractors, and even a railroad tugboat restoration for you railroad/marine nuts out there.

I am interested in how the bundle is working so please let me know what you think. I try to make adjustments whenever I get feedback.

Thanks,

o anderson · **Posted:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:17 pm

Midwest Railway Preservation Society (home of the GTW 4070) has a somewhat bloggish site on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Midwest-Railway-Preservation-Society/100688153126

o anderson · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:38 am

Recent Photos of the NKP 765 that I would not have seen, if I had not checked Tom Gear's blog bundle

Nickel Plate Road 765 photo album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=139884&id=191711112882&l=b7aa423786

o anderson · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:22 pm

Updates at the 1880 Train (which we otherwise know as the Black Hills Central in Deadwood, South Dakota)
http://1880train.blogspot.com/

Rivers Train Station Restoration Project
A creative use of new media for promoting a local restoration project in Canada
http://riverstrainstationrestorationproject.blogspot.com/

West Shore Station
A sub element of the blog for the Newburgh Restoration site (New York State)
http://newburghrestoration.blogspot.com/2009/12/west-shore-train-station-website.html

Locomotive 4468
Okay, this one is in Australia, but it is familiar to us as an Alco DL-500B.
http://project4468.blogspot.com/

tomgears · **Posted:** Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:09 pm

I've added these except for the West Shore Station because it seemed to be Newburgh town preservation site with just one single entry about the train station and the rest were non-railroad entries. If I got that part wrong please let me know.

o anderson · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:14 pm

Belfast and Moosehead Lake (Brooks Preservation Society) on twitter
http://twitter.com/BMLRailway

o anderson · **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:15 pm

Ohio Railway Museum on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ohio-Railway-Museum/119071661606