SAINT-DENIS, France — France’s state-owned rail company, SNCF, and its Belgium counterpart, SNCB, have proposed a merger of the Eurostar and Thalys high speed rail companies to create one operator that would serve five countries. The proposal, labelled “Green Speed,” was announced Friday. The combined company would serve England, France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. […]
Reading & Northern’s “Customer Appreciation Special,” led by a pair of recently chop-nosed former Norfolk Southern GP38-2s, is seen at Mountaintop, Pa., Sept. 24, 2019. Scott A. Hartley Viewed from the upper level of Reading & Northern full-length “Super Dome” No. 4 on Sept. 24, 2019, the new $14 million bridge over the Lehigh River […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway this week launched a sixth day of intermodal service linking Los Angeles and CSX Transportation’s Northwest Ohio terminal. BNSF added a Sunday morning eastbound departure from its Hobart terminal in Los Angeles and a Monday morning westbound departure from North Baltimore, Ohio. BNSF began directly serving CSX’s former intermodal […]
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s reconstructed Blue Line is set to fully reopen the week of Oct. 28, a spokesman for the agency tells Trains News Wire. The system’s oldest operating light rail line has been undergoing a major renovation and modernization in two phases, shutting the southern half from January to […]
MINNEAPOLIS – The League of Railway Women HAS named Canadian Pacific Assistant Vice President Customer & Corporate Services Pam Arpin the winner of the 2019 Railway Woman of the Year award. Arpin was honored at the General Session of Railway Interchange. “I am extremely proud to be recognized among a list of such notable women in […]
Denver’s RTD has announced a delay to mid-2020 for the opening of its N Line, originally slated to begin service in 2018. TRAINS: David Lassen DENVER — The Denver-area Regional Transportation District has announced that the opening of its commuter-rail N Line will be delayed again, and officials in at least two of the cities […]
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 will be home in time for Thanksgiving — arriving at the Cheyenne shops on Nov. 27 after it completes the tour it begins today. In an email to members of the Union Pacific Steam Club, railroad officials announced that after Big Boy’s Southwest Tour stops […]
Rob Knight, outgoing UP chief financial officer Union Pacific Jennifer Hamann, incoming UP chief financial officer Union Pacific OMAHA, Neb. — The dean of railroad chief financial officers, Union Pacific’s Rob Knight, will retire at the end of the year. UP yesterday named Jennifer Hamann, who currently serves as senior vice president — finance, as […]
Trains editors’ present rail news that is fit to publish. This week, Brian and Steve talk about Railway Interchange, Union Pacific’s Big Boy, Canadian Pacific’s chief engineer, and more! […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern’s Mexican subsidiary remains shut down about 80 miles northwest of Mexico City following a fiery collision last week caused by theft-related sabotage. All Kansas City Southern de Mexico service to and from the Mexico City-area remains suspended, KCS officials say. Vandals reportedly blocked tracks in Nopala in the […]
Part of the funds will go to New York City Transit for new signaling and equipment, station improvements, and track replacement. Subway riders on the nation’s largest transit system can expect to see more work trains, such as this one at the West 4th Street station in Manhattan, for system upgrades in the next five […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — More than a hundred historical railroad maps of the Missouri Pacific, including Arkansas predecessors, are now online as a result of a digitalization project at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The maps are part of the university’s Center for Arkansas History and Culture and were a 2017 gift by […]
