Train Tuesdays For National Train Day, we went with some friends to the Joy Line Railroad, a miniature gasoline engine powered railroad just outside of Harpers Ferry (one mile down Bakerton Road north of Harpers Ferry off of Rte 340). There’s a nice Washington Post article on the railroad operation. The article is pretty old [...]
Train Tuesdays I didn’t make it down to Roanoke, but sure enough steam railroading returned to Roanoke, Virginia for the first time in a long time. Roanoke Rail Fest featured New Hope Valley #17 sporting a Norfolk & Western class A “hooter” whistle for a portion of the event. Little #17 sounds just like N&W [...]
Train Tuesdays Roanoke, Virginia–the last bastion of mainline steam in the United States–will have steam excursions again this weekend as part of Roanoke Rail Fest! Mike Allen reports of The Roanoke Times: Roanoke Rail Fest will kick-off the Museum’s year-long 50th Anniversary celebration by transporting rail fans to the Golden Age of Steam when locomotives [...]
Train Tuesdays Modern Diesels with a Nod to the Past Norfolk Southern is in the process of releasing brand new diesel electric locomotives with the historic paint schemes of their predecessor railroads. Several of these locomotives, including Conrail, Southern Railway, Norfolk and Western, Nickel Plate Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Interstate Railroad are already out hauling [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] There was a good article in a recent Trains magazine about the legend of John Henry. The story is a perfect man vs machine battle (low-tech vs hi-tech). The legend goes that a powerful worker named John Henry died after successfully outperforming a steam drill during the [...]