Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
The Gold Coast Railroad Museum promotes historical trains and railroads. It houses over 30 historic trains including historic railroad cars like the Presidential Pullman "Ferdinand Magellan” and engines like the Florida East Coast "153.” The museum strives to teach railroad history using artifacts, movies, and railroading materials.
The train consisted of 23 passenger cars with Robert B. Claytor at the throttle. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] When the train was running at 58 mph (93 km/h) near the Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, Virginia, two of the passenger cars struck a faulty switch on the main line derailing them and the other 12 passenger cars with them. [ 4 ]
The Boca Express Train Museum, operated by the Boca Raton Historical Society, is housed in a restored 1930 Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) train station in Boca Raton, Florida. designed by Chester G. Henninger, built for Clarence H. Geist. It is located at 747 South Dixie Highway, off U.S. 1 (Federal Highway).
Michigan Central Railroad Roundhouse, 240 Waterloo Street, London, Ontario, constructed in 1887 to service steam locomotives and ceased operations in the late 1890s, restored as a digital media centre [3]
Wells Fargo Rail provides various services to its rail customers. It of course leases the railcars and locomotives, but also provides the financing for the leases (Operating Leases, Net Lease, Full Service Lease and Car Hire Arrangement), and also Sale/Leaseback (buying rail stock from company and leasing it back to them), Portfolio Acquisitions, Asset Sales and Lease/Sublease.
Florida Midland Railroad began operating the lines in 1987 and uses locomotives branded for the Florida Central Railroad, its sister railroad. [ 1 ] In November 2019, former owner Pinsly Railroad Company sold the Florida Midland, along with the Florida Central Railroad and Florida Northern Railroad , to 3i RR Holdings GP, LLC and subsidiaries ...
[4]: 27 The sixth car, Pm class No. 1734, was renumbered to 1008 in 1970. [4]: 28 One of the undamaged cars, the Ohio State University was preserved and currently owned by the Florida-Georgia Railway Heritage Museum, which operated it in excursion service on their Georgia Coastal Railway in Kingsland, Georgia. [20]