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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 […]
Move over Alcos, No. 6002, the Western New York & Pennsylvania’s first operating AC GE, is ready for service. Stephan M. Koenig OLEAN, N.Y. — On Tuesday, Western New York & Pennsylvania AC46CH No. 6002 became the first alternating current GE to enter revenue service on the railroad famed for its big Alco motive power. […]
Passengers board a San Luis & Rio Grande train at Alamosa, Colo., in June 2015. Trains: Brian Schmidt CHICAGO — Iowa Pacific Holdings’ financial woes continue. A week after its railroads in Colorado and Oregon were placed into receivership, the receiver, Novo Advisors, has filed a motion to place six other Iowa Pacific companies into […]
CHICAGO – Iowa Pacific Holdings appears to be holding a fire sale of equipment following a series of recent financial troubles. A batch of new listings on rail equipment brokerage site Ozark Mountain Railcar appeared over the weekend offering a minimum of 33 pieces of Iowa Pacific equipment for sale, including locomotives and rolling stock […]
BELLEVUE, Wash. — CloudMoyo is excited to announce the launch of a new education initiative with the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), an industry association representing the 603 short line freight railroad companies in the United States and their suppliers. ASLRRA and CloudMoyo will develop ongoing educational and informative webinars, focused on using […]
CHICAGO — Anacostia Rail Holdings Company and Brown Brothers Harriman Capital Partners today announced the formation of Precision Terminal Logistics, a jointly owned entity that will operate, build, and acquire transloading terminals across the U.S. In conjunction with its formation, PTL has acquired select assets from Arrow Material Services, LLC, a provider of transloading and […]
An eastbound milk train from Ogdensburg, N.Y., passes the joint Rutland/Central Vermont station at Alburgh, Vt., in October 1951, behind green-and-yellow Alco RS3 No. 204. Jim Shaughnessy photo […]
The Escanaba & Lake Superior dieselized in the mid-1940s with Baldwin locomotives, including DS-4-4-660 No. 101, purchased new in November 1947. It was the second diesel on the property and one of two of the model. Classic Trains collection […]
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen has transferred many of its short line and regional railroad members into a new National Division and raised the profile of small railroad members in the largest U.S. railroad union. The move follows the BLET’s decision at its 2018 Fourth National Convention to expand organizing activities on short […]
WASHINGTON – One week after obtaining the 60th supporter of the BRACE Act in the Senate, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association today announced a historic high of 272 supporters of the companion bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 510, calling for permanence of the Short Line Tax Credit (45G). The […]
CLINTON, Ill. — Central Illinois will gain a new short line if the Surface Transportation Board OKs a filing dated Sept. 11, 2019, to lease a 10.7-mile section of the Illinois Central Railroad Charter Line. Motive Rail Inc., dba Illinois Terminal Belt, will serve two grain elevators, both Tate & Lyle Grain Inc. operations at […]
Passengers board a San Luis & Rio Grande train at Alamosa, Colo., in June 2015. Brian Schmidt CHICAGO – A U.S. District Court judge has ordered two railroads owned by Iowa Pacific Holdings to be placed into receivership. On Sept. 9, Big Shoulders Capital LLC, filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois […]
