Jack Williams donated railroad lamps and lanterns to the Portage Station Museum, where they are on display through Dec. 31. Mirror photo by Alicia Chiang PORTAGE — Retired coal mine and railroad ...

Collectors of railroad or train memorabilia are constantly trying to track down items that interest them. Their interest ranges from tickets to timetables to dishes. Some collectors specialize in a ...

I greatly enjoyed the “flanger” snow-plowing tourist train story. Let’s have more local-train stories, shall we? But hold the train – did I read correctly in the story that crew members’ breath was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This railroad hand-signal kerosene ...

Morphy Auctions – the Denver-based auction house – will hold a two-day auction on Oct. 3 and 4 that will be of special interest to collectors of automobile and railroad memorabilia. Bidding on the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This railroad hand signal oil lantern ...

If Jim Prokes assembled all the railroad collectibles he has accumulated over the years, he probably could build an entire train line. His two-car garage is so crammed with objects from various ...

One recent Saturday afternoon, Bob Gorran was showing a visitor around the new Millbrae Train Museum, located in the old Caltrain depot a few hundred feet south of the BART/Caltrain station. Gorran, ...

This is a circa-1900 kerosene-fueled switch lamp, probably manufactured by R.E. Dietz, of New York, says Bruce Gamage, of Rockland’s Gamage Antiques. At the time, a railroad switch would have been ...

The Painesville Railroad Museum will welcome model train enthusiasts and accept a new historical artifact during its annual Model Train Days event on May 20. This year’s Model Train Days will feature ...