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Railroad: Bo Railroad
built 287 days ago
CN is teaming with the Union Pacific (UP) Railroad to interchange more freight cars at UP’s Itasca Yard just south of Superior instead of Chicago, the longtime hand-off point between the two Class 1 railroads. On Nov. 24 they announced the new arrangement that affects rail traffic bound from Western Canada to Texas and points in between.
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The Living Museum’s Underground Railroad Flight to Freedom Program Tour is located at the Historic First Congregational Church of Detroit in Detroit, MI. This is a “storytelling” simulation of a slave’s journey to freedom. The tour last approximately 30 minutes in which participants are shackled with wrist bands and pass through the “Door of No Return” on Goree Island in Africa. As escaping slaves, participants become passengers on the Underground Railroad and are led by a conductor in which they hide out to escape bounty-hunters, cross the Ohio “Deep” River, take refuge in safe houses in Quaker communities in Indiana and move on to “Midnight” the code name for Detroit. Click Here for tour information.
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The Best Friend is built at the West Point Foundery at New York for the Charlston & Hamburg Railroad. It was the first completely American-built steam engine to go into scheduled passenger service. It did excellent work until 1831 when the boiler exploded due to a reckless fireman, unexpectedly ending its, and his career.
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The First Iowa Division of the North American Railcar Operators Association will be hosting a motorcar day at the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad on Saturday, April 26. Operators are to set-on at 7:00 AM, with the first trip of the day taking place at 9:00 AM. For more information, visit the NARCOA website: http://www.narcoa.org.
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