There are just a couple days left to ride the last coal-fired steam locomotive at the Milwaukee County Zoo—one of the days being this coming Saturday, Sept. 14. Partly for environmental reasons, the ...
Norfolk Southern Corp. announced a $1.34 billion capital budget for 2007 on Tuesday that includes the purchase of 1,300 coal cars built in Roanoke and 53 new locomotives. The budget is up 12 percent ...
The last thing you’d expect a railroad coal car to do is take flight. But one tried in August 1926 at the John B. Hull & Son fuel business on upper Main Street in Great Barrington. Hull in 1900, ...