On Sept. 6, 1974, more than 100 people gathered near downtown to watch a daylong effort to move a Nickel Plate Road Berkshire Locomotive across Fourth Street. It took 30 men and more than 30 tons of ...

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SCRANTON, Pa. — An iconic diesel locomotive made its return to Scranton Friday. The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) PA Passenger locomotive known as the Nickel Plate (NKP) 190 has spent the past ...

July 22, 1973: “The Scranton Flyer” Engine 759, a Nickel Plate Berkshire steam locomotive, returned to the Electric City with a new moniker, the Freedom Train. The train, part of the collection at ...

PENINSULA, Ohio — EDITOR'S NOTE: The video in the player above is from a previous story. The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad announced Tuesday that the historic Nickel Plate No. 765 steam locomotive ...

Unfortunately, the Baldwin did exactly that, running out of coal in Independence. Blanchard had to fetch 10 buckets full from the railroad's stockpile, so owner Scott Symans, of Dunkirk, N.Y., could ...

LENOX — The Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum has acquired another piece of historic railroad memorabilia: A 77-year-old locomotive that is one of the three surviving locomotives of the Boston & Maine ...