The kickoff of the new Trails & Rails program between Chicago and La Plata on the Southwest Chief is less than 2 weeks away from now and we honestly can’t be …

It is that time of year when the APRHF goes out on the road and attends some train shows. At those shows we have all the information that covers what we do and the what you …

We are just a few weeks away from our Trails & Rails Inaugural Run on the Southwest Chief between Chicago and La Plata, Missouri… and all 25 docents are very …

As I write this blog post here (on April 22, 2013) we are halfway done with the Trails & Rails group’s training runs to Galesburg and back. Over the course of six …

— Even though it’s April now and it feels more like December… remember when it was December and it felt more like April? Anyway, my wife Kandace and I took …

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First off here is the info on the La Plata Event. The train station will be open from 9 to 3 on May 11th
Free Coffee and Donuts available in the morning, Amtrak Memorabilia …

Here is a large update on what has been going on over the past few weeks. We had a formal meetings in La Plata and outlined some goals to achieve. We had lots of good …

The rail lookout point was built in 2007 on the Ex-Wabash right away as an open platform train watching deck. Wabash crossed the Ex-Santa Fe (now BNSF) transcon via a …

Hello members and friends. Today myself and my daughter took some time to update some displays and make sure everything was working OK. We found a couple of burned out light …