A Facebook page promoting railroad safety and education shared screenshots from Virtual Railfan’s Horseshoe Curve camera showing the three trespassers and vandals from Sunday’s incident near Altoona. STOP Photography and Trespassing on Railroad Tracks via Facebook ALTOONA, Pa. — A video streaming service for railroad enthusiasts recently spotted more than just trains at the Horseshoe […]
CHICAGO — Amtrak, Siemens, and state of Illinois officials staged a media open house at Chicago Union Station on Monday marking the debut of the first Charger locomotives assigned to Midwest routes. “Twelve of the 33 ordered Chargers are on the property and I can put ten in service today,” says Mike Yates, Amtrak’s Chicago-based […]
CHICAGO — This morning, Amtrak Hiawatha train No. 329 departed Chicago Union Station for Milwaukee behind a new SC-44 Charger locomotive, No. 4620. This is the first solo revenue trip for the Illinois Department of Transportation’s SC-44 locomotives since arriving in the Windy City this spring. This locomotive and its counterparts are owned by a […]
CSX EMD SD60Ms, SD70MACs, SD50-2s, SD40-2s, and an assortment of other GE and EMD-built locomotives sit in storage at CSX Transportation’s Russell, Ky., near Wurtland, Ky., in July 2017. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hundreds of locomotives have ended up in storage since CEO E. Hunter Harrison took the top spot at CSX Transportation earlier this year. […]
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus car No. 57 is on its way to a new home in Seffner, Fla., to be the community center for a small residential village of retired circus performers. Joe DeMike SEFFNER, Fla. — The Showpeople’s Winter Quarters of Seffner Aug. 16 announced the donation of retired circus train […]
A map of the Port Freeport facilities shows available land for development and the amenities associated with the properties. Port Freeport FREEPORT, Texas — Port Freeport officials recently gathered along the Gulf Coast for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new rail development project. Phase one of the project, known as Parcel 14, is one of […]
A Deutsche Bahn ICE high-speed train heading north through Rastatt on Sept. 5, 2016. Keith Fender Rastatt, Germany Google Maps FRANKFURT, Germany — Following the collapse of a new high speed rail tunnel being built underneath the German town of Rastatt, about 100 miles south of Frankfurt am Main, the existing main line railway directly […]
A Knoxville Locomotive Works six-axle unit. Knoxville Locomotive Works KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knoxville Locomotive Works, an original equipment manufacturer of switcher and road-switcher locomotives, was recently awarded EPA Tier 4 emission certifications for its SE Series four- and six-axle locomotive designs. The Tier 4 certifications include the switch duty cycle for KLW models rated at […]
A CSX Transportation train burns at Hyndman, Pa., on Aug. 2. Safety investigators say that train crews had 33 handbrakes applied when they began down grade with a 178-car train. Pennsylvania State Police via the National Transportation Safety Board WASHINGTON — Federal investigators say that a CSX Transportation train that derailed in early August had […]
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific No. 652 was one of 13 E8As purchased by the Rock Island in 1951. The locomotive and sister unit E6A No. 630 are gradually being restored to operating condition. Jerry Huddleston OELWEIN, Iowa — This weekend the Manly Junction Railroad Museum’s two former Rock Island E units, E6A No. 630 […]
FULL SCREEN Steve Smedley A humid breeze wisps through the wheels of a rusted baggage cart in Champaign, Ill., at 5:28 a.m. Monday. Amtrak’s product line agent Ed Kim stands on the platform of the Illinois Terminal Intermodal Transportation Center in Champaign as the engineer of the Eclipse Express special dims the headlight for a […]
A view of a Pennsylvania Railroad long-haul fuel tender that the T1 Trust recently purchased. Pennsylvania Railroad T1 Trust The T1 Trust has purchased a 200,000-pound Pennsylvania Railroad long-haul tender No. 6659 from the Western New York Railway Historical society that had been used behind an M1, a 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotive. Essentially, a T1 tender […]
