NEW BRAUNFELS — There's something about the sound of an approaching train that can make children and adults alike feel giddy. So they came out in droves in New Braunfels on Thursday morning to greet ...
Bruce Juneau, a train historian with the Inland Empire Railway Historical Society, checks out Union Pacific 949, an E9 streamliner locomotive, at the downtown Amtrak station on Tuesday. About 1,500 ...
SPENCER — Tickets for Streamliners at Spencer will go on sale at 9 a.m. today. The four-day festival, May 29 to June 1, will include Streamliner locomotives of the 1930s through 1950s gathered around ...
Like a travel ghost, the 23rd annual Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days Train will re-create the halcyon days of riding the rails. When the 17-car train departs Denver on Saturday, it will be pulled ...
The Nebraska 150 Express, a Union Pacific Streamliner locomotive, will roll across Nebraska this summer to help mark the state’s sesquicentennial. Gov. Pete Ricketts, his wife, Susanne Shore, and U.P.
On the morning of May 26, 1934, a shimmering silver locomotive pulled out of Denver's Union Station bound for Chicago. The Zephyr was unlike any train seen before. Powered by a revolutionary compact ...
The N.C. Transportation Museum’s “Streamliners at Spencer” is three days of rail fan nirvana. Twenty-six streamliner locomotives, built in the 1930s through the 1950s, will be gathered at the museum ...
Courtesy photo Author John Wall is shown by the Pennsylvania Railroads’ GG-1 locomotive on display at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona. John Wall, a former Altoona Mirror writer and editor, ...
In June 1938, the New York Central introduced new locomotives and Pullman cars. Their breathtakingly bold streamlined design was the handiwork of an industrial designer whose work would become iconic ...