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The locomotive for the Michigan Star Clipper is a General Motors EMD F7 1,500-horsepower engine, built in 1950 for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. The engine, rebuilt and computerized, is electric and operated the train smoothly at a top speed of 10 m.p.h.; even the drinks on the dining tables did not spill out. [3]
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 11 mi (18 km) Other. Website. bsvrr.com /wp /. The Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad (reporting mark BSVY) is a heritage railroad that operates freight and passenger excursions in Boone County, Iowa.
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 3.25 miles. Charlotte Southern Rail Road is a short line railroad operating in Michigan. [1] It connects Charlotte, Michigan, with the CN rail system. It is a freight system, but its main customer has not received rail traffic since the early 2000s. It is operated by the Adrian and Blissfield Rail ...
Michigan Air Line. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 8.07 miles. Coe Rail was an excursion and freight rail line running between West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Wixom, Michigan, United States. It was best known for its Michigan Star Clipper Dinner Train. In 2007, it was renamed the Michigan Air-Line ...
Dinner train. A dinner train is a relatively new type of tourist train service whose main purpose is to allow people to eat dinner while experiencing a relatively short, leisurely round trip train ride. This contrasts with conventional passenger trains, whose main purpose is to transport passengers to some destination as quickly as possible but ...
Seibu 4000 series. Seminole Gulf Railway. Shasta Sunset Dinner Train. Spirit of Washington Dinner Train.
One history of the song reports: "While on tour with the McIntyre and Heath Minstrels, their train arrived at a place called 'Old Town'. From their train window, [Metz] could see a group of children starting a fire, near the tracks. One of the other minstrels remarked that 'there'll be a hot time in the old town tonight'.
The train parked at Stillwater in 2010. The Minnesota Zephyr was a heritage railroad operating out of Stillwater, Minnesota. It operated as a dinner train and served a five-course, white linen dinner on a six-mile route, traveling between four and seven miles per hour. [1] Power was provided by two EMD F7 locomotives, [2] with one on each end ...