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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 15 October 2017 - 08:27 AM

Heritage Rail Alliance:

Annual HRA Awards 

 

October 15, 2017

 

At the Fall conference in Minneapolis, the HeritageRail Alliance presented its annual slate of awards.

 

Significant Achievement Awards

These are given for restorations and other large capital project completed in the last 12 months. This year the category was broadened to recognize equipment restorations in multiple categories such as steam locomotives, passenger cars and electric cars.

 

It’s not every year that two pre-Civil War locomotives receive a thorough cosmetic restoration. The B&O Railroad Museum and the Atlanta History Center were recognized for their restorations of Baltimore & Ohio 4-4-0 #25 William Mason (Mason 1856) and Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 Texas (Danforth Cooke 1856). The two efforts took different directions. The Mason was backdated to what restorers believe was its original color scheme.

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The much-rebuilt Texas rolled out in the relatively austere black of its later years of service.

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Of the several electric car restorations completed during the last year, the most challenging was Winona, Minnesota single truck streetcar #10 (St. Louis 1914). It last ran in 1938 and the carbody became a cabin outside of town. The restoration took 13 years and a quarter million dollars. The restoration is notable for its historic accuracy. Under the car is the correct power truck, one of only two Dupont trucks in North America. It was purchased from the Trolleyville collection. Inside the car are replicas of the correct seats, thanks to the loan of hardware from a car at Museum of Transport.

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Posted 17 October 2017 - 07:32 AM

Heritage Rail Alliance:

 
2017 completed projects  

 

October 15, 2017

By Aaron Isaacs, HRA editor

 

 

At the HeritageRail Alliance fall conference I presented my annual slideshow of the equipment restorations and other large capital projects completed during the last 12 months. Some appear in yesterday’s post of the HRA awards. Here is the rest of the list.

 

 

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The Reading & Northern started an ambitious new tourist train operation, 120-mile weekend round trips between Reading and Jim Thorpe with RDCs and occasional steam. They depart Reading from the newly opened Outer Station.

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Black River & Western reopened 2.5 miles of the Flemington branch.

 

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Yakima Valley Trolley reopened the interurban line through Selah gap, closed several years ago when copper thieves stole the overhead wire.

 

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