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WASHINGTON — A tax credit to help short line and regional railroads pay for maintenance and infrastructure improvements has been included in a $1.4 trillion spending bill bound for the White House this week. On Tuesday, the House passed a government spending bill that included an extension of the Short Line Railroad 45G Tax Credit […]
In August 2013, Strasburg 2-10-0 No. 90 switches freight at the NS interchange in Paradise, Pa., near the location of a new transload facility. Trains: Jim Wrinn STRASBURG, Pa. — The Strasburg Rail Road plans to expand its freight services with the addition of a new facility at the other end of its line in […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A dozen railroads are among the recipients of more than $40 million in Pennsylvania Department of Transportation funding for 26 rail infrastructure projects throughout the state. CSX Transportation is receiving the largest single state grant, $14.4 million for clearance projects to allow double-stack trains to reach the port of Philadelphia. Other grants […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation is expanding a loan program to benefit short line and regional railroads. On Dec. 12, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced the Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Financing Express program (RRIF Express) was accepting loan applications for projects that will specifically modernize the freight rail network in rural […]
Norfolk Southern 4271 leads the three other F-units at Knoxville, Tenn., in November 2011 as Southern Railway 2-8-0 stands by. Trains: Jim Wrinn ALTOONA, Pa. — The last two of Norfolk Southern’s four executive F-units now have a home. F9A No. 271 and F7B No. 276 have been purchased by North Carolina’s Aberdeen Carolina & […]
MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Rail Link is giving a group of lucky students a ride aboard the “Christmas Express” this week. On Tuesday morning, the railroad will be giving a ride aboard its business train to more than 30 students from a school in Thompson Falls, Mont. The ride will feature music, entertainment and even […]
CHICAGO — The company overseeing the embattled Iowa Pacific railroads has requested that the Massachusetts Coastal Railroad be placed into receivership. The Massachusetts Coastal, also known as the Mass Coastal, operates freight and passenger service on Cape Cod and nearby portions of southeastern Massachusetts. It was the only Iowa Pacific railroad not to be placed […]
LAC–MÉGANTIC, Quebec — The Canadian government says the sale of the Central Maine & Quebec Railway to Canadian Pacific will have little impact on the plan to build a rail bypass around a town devastated by a 2013 oil train derailment. In 2018, the Canadian government announced it would help fund a $100 million effort […]
SEATTLE — The Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission has approved $120,000 in grants to improve 20 grade crossings on the Central Washington Railroad in the Yakima Valley. Eighteen of the grants will be used to replace batteries in warning lights, while the remaining two will be used to replace batteries and LED lights. The grants […]
A map showing Illinois and Indiana and the proposed takeover of the Eastern Illinois Railway by Decatur & Eastern Illinois. Surface Transportation Board filing WASHINGTON — Watco short line Decatur & Eastern Illinois, which began operations in September 2018, aims to expand by acquiring the neighboring 53-mile Eastern Illinois Railroad. The DE&I, a CSX Transportation […]
CHICAGO — While attorneys are sorting through its legal and financial troubles in U.S. District Court, operations at Iowa Pacific Holding’s three railroads are continuing as normal. Earlier this fall, nearly two dozen entities associated with Iowa Pacific Holdings were placed into receivership [See: “Additional Iowa Pacific railroads placed into receivership,” Trains News Wire, Oct. […]
NS’s four executive F-units pull an office car train through Harrisburg, Pa., in August 2012. Trains: Jim Wrinn ALTOONA, Pa. — Two of Norfolk Southern’s “Fab Four” Electro-Motive F units — F9A No. 270 and F7B No. 275 — have been purchased by Pennsylvania regional Reading & Northern, the railroad announced Saturday. “We’re going to fix […]
