A Chicago-bound Amtrak Hiawatha passes through Deerfield, Ill., in December 2016. Amtrak is requiring reservations on the Hiawatha and several other corridor routes as part of its preparations for increased Thanksgiving holiday ridership. TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — Amtrak says it will add capacity on many of its corridor routes for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, […]
ANTIOCH, Neb. — No injuries were reported when two BNSF Railway coal trains collided on Friday evening, derailing at least one locomotive and several cars. The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reports that one westbound coal train bound for Wyoming rear-ended another train, which was stopped, near Antioch, about 15 miles east of Alliance, Neb. Service was restored […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian National says its proposed acquisition of CSX Transportation’s line linking Montreal with Syracuse, N.Y., will improve service for cross-border traffic. CN, last week, sought U.S. Surface Transportation Board approval of the transaction involving the sale of 236.3 miles of track in New York state. CN also proposed a schedule for review of […]
Rendering shows what Bock No. 1 will look like when completed. Fred Haberkamp A new boiler is under construction for Bock 1. Fred Haberkamp SOMONAUK, Ill. — David Kloke, the man who built operating replicas of historic steam locomotives Leviathan and York, is about to bring another historic, yet significantly more humble, back from the […]
An inbound Metra train approaches the site where preparations are under way to add a third track on the Union Pacific West line near River Forest, Ill., in December 2018. Metra has agreed to built a soundwall at the site in response to concerns from adjacent homeowners. TRAINS: David Lassen RIVER FOREST, Ill. — Responding […]
A Perris-bound Metrolink train climbs out of Riverside in February 2019. Metrolink schedule changes today include an additional Los Angeles round trip on the 91/Perris line. TRAINS: David Lassen LOS ANGELES — Commuter railroad Metrolink will introduce new schedules today, increasing service to Los Angeles on its Orange County and 91/Perris Valley lines and making […]
Video by Chris Guss A relief crew has just boarded Canadian Pacific Railway No. 7015, leading a deadhead business train bound for Kansas City at Marquette, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 2019. The 7015 is one of 60 SD70ACUs being rebuilt by Progress Rail in Kentucky, using the railroad’s stored SD9043MACs. Ten of the rebuilds will […]
Wall Street analysts expect Class I railroad earnings to rise an average of 7% for the third quarter as a combination of rate hikes, cost-cutting, efficiency gains, and share buybacks offsets the impact of traffic declines at five of the six publicly traded systems. CSX Transportation, which kicks off the quarterly earnings reports on Oct. […]
A VIA crew member offers food-cart service on a Montreal-Toronto train in 2012. VIA is planning to eliminate cash payments on its eastern corridor trains and the long-distance Ocean. Bob Johnston MONTREAL — Starting Oct. 29, only regular and prepaid credit cards and VIA Rail gift cards will be accepted to pay for food on […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive. Canadian Pacific (with beaver herald in one road number, without in three), CIT Rail Leasing (blue, three numbers), Farmrail (tan and brown, three numbers), Huron & Eastern (RailAmerica scheme, four numbers), Norfolk Southern (“Training First Responders” scheme, one number), and RJ Corman (red and gray, three numbers). […]
We were digging in our archive and remembered a timeline history of the hobby that we published in our December 2003 issue. We thought our readers would enjoy seeing it again. Download a free PDF of this article at the link below! […]
A TEXRail train, offering service between Fort Worth and DFW Airport, passes the station in Grapevine, Texas shortly after the line’s opening in January. Officials from the transit agencies overseeing TEXRail and Dallas Area Rapid Transit are exploring the possibility of offering single-seat service between Fort Worth and Plano, a distance of almost 60 miles, […]
