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Clanking and whirring, a steam locomotive noses three wagonloads of tourists past a mammoth leaking water tower. The train disappears up a rail incline into the forest. A whistle fit for a ...

In 1901, the tranquility of the forests blanketing the San Bernardino Mountains was pierced by the unfamiliar sound of a steam whistle and the churning of a steam locomotive. The first and only ...

CASS, W.Va. — The Cass Scenic Railroad is a hard-working, up-the-mountain tourist rail line. It’s a slow 7 mph on the steam-powered trains up Cheat Mountain to Whittaker Station and upward to Bald ...

NORTH ADAMS — Four years ago the tiny Hoot, Toot & Whistle Railroad crawled one last time through the hills of North Berkshire to Readsboro, Vt., and stopped. "You can't run on sentiment," declared ...

The logging railroad reached its heyday in the late 19th century and early 20th century when large lumbering operations clear-cut forests to produce lumber, paper and other wood products for a fast ...

In the beginning, there was wood. From there came industry and the logging railroad. John Berg of Wisconsin Rapids has written a book about both in “The Lake Shore and Eastern — a Logging Railroad in ...