Southern Railway 630′s test run

Yesterday TVRM and Norfolk Southern teamed up to send Southern Railway 630 on a 50-mile test run to Cleveland, TN, and back. Travis Gordon brings us the action:

(Travis gets extra credit for using a Norman Blake song.)

Flying Scotsman at the NRM

Flying Scotsman in black
(Photo by National Railway Museum)

The UK’s National Railway Museum has unveiled the newly-restored Flying Scotsman in WWII-era black for display.

The BBC files a report here.


(Photo by Carl Spencer.)

On Tuesday the locomotive was moved to the East Lancashire Railway for steam tests and commissioning runs.

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