LENOX — The Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum has acquired another piece of historic railroad memorabilia: A 77-year-old locomotive that is one of the three surviving locomotives of the Boston & Maine ...

The Berkshire is from the Fort Wayne Railroad ... At speed, an augur beneath the floor plate carries coal from the tender into the locomotive's firebox. At a standstill, a fireman must stoke ...

Train fans can breathe a sigh of relief as a 1940s vintage locomotive that once helped cart coal at the Mount Tom power station in Holyoke is headed to a new life at the in Lenox. The locomotive ...

The two new cars will be pulled by a 1941 locomotive that is also being restored. They will seat about 112, said Jay Green, vice president of the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum and town administrator ...

On Sept. 6, 1974, more than 100 people gathered near downtown to watch a daylong effort to move a Nickel Plate Road Berkshire Locomotive across Fourth Street. It took 30 men and more than 30 tons ...

It is one of the two surviving Pere Marquette 2-8-4 Berkshire locomotives. Its sister, Pere Marquette 1223, sits on display in Grand Haven. Thirty-nine were built. The locomotive had 10 years of ...

EMD, founded in 1922, designs, manufactures and sells diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications. Greenbriar, Berkshire and unnamed parties acquired the manufacturer in ...

Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. 1225 is undergoing a full retube of its boiler, according to a May 12 news release by the locomotive's owner, the Steam Railroading Institute (SRI). The Berkshire-type ...

No. 358 was one of 20 diesel-electric locomotives built to replace the NKP’s steam engine fleet, which included Nickel Plate Road Berkshire-type steam locomotive no. 765. The Fort Wayne Railroad ...

"If you think about Pennsylvania's golden era, there really is no machine that better represents that golden era than the steam locomotive," said Nathaniel Guest, executive director of the ...

It was last in service to provide steam for a stranded passenger train in Fort Wayne that following winter, making it the last Nickel Plate Road Berkshire under steam ... In 1963, the locomotive was ...