Dan Cupper

2 months ago | trains.com | Dan Cupper

HARRISBURG, Pa. – With a cellphone, tablet or notebook in hand, visitors can activate a Pennsylvania Railroad position-light signal here to replicate any of 19 indications, past or present, used to govern train movements. The Harrisburg Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society on Wednesday (Feb. 19) completed a project, years in the making, that gives visitors digital control of a two-target Union Switch & Signal Co. signal.

Jan 17, 2025 | trains.com | Dan Cupper

ALTOONA, Pa. – With the inspection, cleaning and conditioning of the drivers of former Pennsylvania Railroad Class K4s 4-6-2 steam engine No. 1361 by Strasburg Rail Road’s mechanical department, the locomotive’s $2.4 million restoration has moved symbolically past the halfway point, according to the engine’s owner, the Railroaders Memorial Museum. The six 80-inch drivers made the 170-mile trip from Altoona to Strasburg, Pa., in December, according to Joseph DeFrancesco, museum executive director.

Jan 8, 2025 | trains.com | Dan Cupper

BIG STONE GAP, Va. – A  three-week exhibition of railroad watercolors and photographs by author and Trains contributor Ron Flanary is scheduled to begin Jan. 17 on the campus of Mountain Empire Community College. Titled “The Tracks of my Years,” the display of 30 pieces consists of about two-thirds photos and one-third paintings, all made over a period of more than 60 years. Flanary will open the exhibition with remarks at a reception to be held on Jan.

Dec 22, 2024 | trains.com | Dan Cupper

For a fifth straight year, the revival of the much-loved narrow gauge East Broad Top Railroad in Pennsylvania has made Trains News Wire’s year-end Top 10. The rebirth of this 33-mile-long coal-hauler turned preservation tourist railroad began in 2020 with the formation of the nonprofit EBT Foundation, Inc. by industry leaders Henry Posner III, Wick Moorman and Bennett Levin.

Dec 4, 2024 | trains.com | Dan Cupper

A new preservation group, Northeast Rail Heritage, Inc., announced Tuesday (Dec. 3) that it has purchased former Amtrak AEM7 electric locomotive No. 927, built in 1981 for high-speed passenger service on the Northeast Corridor and Keystone Corridor. It was retired in 2016. Using technology from ASEA-built Statens Järnvägar (Swedish State Railways) Rc4 B-B locomotives, General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division built 54 of the four-axle, 7,000-hp units between 1978 and 1988.