On mothers day 2014 maintenance works to remove a former C&O signal. It took only an hour and a half, with two trains complicating things, to remove something that has stood 50+ years.
An arsonist is suspected of setting the timber-lined Douglas Tunnel ablaze in the early morning hours of Sunday April 27th. Douglas is on the busy former C&O (ex B&O) Sandy Valley & Elkhorn Subdi... (more)
History on a hardhat. We're on the former Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad right-of-way. The GHH was chartered in 1853, and through mergers and acquisitions became the joint property of t... (more)
The Viking departs Betsie Bay for another voyage across Lake Michigan to Kewaunee, Wis. She was built for the Ann Arbor Railroad in 1925 as Ann Arbor No. 7, underwent substantial overhaul in 1964,... (more)
The Chief Wawatam was unique. It was the only bow-loading railcar ferry on the Great Lakes. She was the last of the “hand bombers,” hand-fired steam vessel on the lakes. And she had a bow propell... (more)