National Railroad Museum employees and volunteers spent the morning rearranging some stock in our McCormick Pavilion! You can see the Aerotrain, Dome Diner, and other stock as they are rearranged in this video! We needed to reposition some stock so we could be ready to start the restoration on the Union Pacific #8003 Dome Diner! Restoration will begin on this car shortly after restoration of the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railway Post Office No. 2330 is finished. The restoration of the Dome D

Texas State Railroad No. 30 formerly Tremont and Gulf Railroad No. 30 Build Year: 1930 📹 credit: @dylan_s_railphotos (instagram for more fantastic rail photos and video!) Texas State Railroad History The Texas State Railroad, initially named the Lone Star and Eastern Railroad, spans a 25-mile (40 km) route between Rusk and Palestine, Texas. Founded in 1883 and built using prison labor, the railroad was primarily used to transport raw materials to a smelter at the Rusk prison. By 1921, it had ce

Let's take a train ride! On Friday, May 26 come out and see this Ol' Gal gliding down the tracks at Texas State Railroad. Locomotive is TSR 30. This locomotive was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in October of 1917 for the Tremont & Gulf Railway which was a shortline railroad which operated between Tremont and Winnfield Louisiana. It was sold to the Magma Arizona Railroad in 1952 and became their No. 7. Interesting coincidence: this was the locomotive used to film "How the West was Won" on the