NEW YORK CITY — Inbound Amtrak Albany-to-Grand Central Terminal Train No. 242 is passing through Marble Hill in the Bronx at 4:55 p.m. on July 26, 2017, as one of three Monday through Friday round trips from Albany, due to track work reconstruction at New York Penn Station. Led by non-dual power mode P42DC No. […]
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Taconite plant, mine re-openings good news for CSX, BNSF NEWSWIRE
REYNOLDS, Ind. — There’s good news in the air for the metallic ore business units of BNSF Railway and CSX Transportation as plans were announced in late July to re-open shuttered mining facilities in Minnesota in addition to the opening of a new taconite pellet plant in Indiana. Republic Steel and ERP Iron Ore LLC […]
Photo charters for 2-6-6-2 delayed until 2018 NEWSWIRE
An image of Chesapeake & Ohio No. 1309 2-6-6-2 as it appeared at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Md., in 2014. Trains file photo CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and Trains Magazine will postpone inaugural photo-charter freights with Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309, Chief Executive Officer John Garner and Trains Editor […]
Nickel Plate Berkshire to be Ohio-bound NEWSWIRE
Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum STRASBURG, Pa. — Officials with the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania say they’ll soon transfer ownership of their historic Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive, S-3 class Berkshire 2-8-4 No. 757, to the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. The Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum will be […]
CSX Transportation seeks hourly-rate agreement with engineers NEWSWIRE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen are discussing shifting to an hourly-rate agreement. CSX notified the union on July 19 that it would like to replace the mileage-based pay system with an hourly rate, William Lyons, general chairman of the union’s CSX Northern Lines General Committee of Adjustment, […]
Captive or forced switching leads list of suggested STB regulatory changes NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON — No surprise, railroads and shippers are sharply divided on the issue of allowing railroad customers with connections to only one railroad to choose an alternative carrier. Shippers call it “captive switching.” “Forced switching” is the term the railroads uses. Both sides shared their views on July 25 before an informal Surface Transportation Board […]
CP heritage fleet headlines Canada 150 Train this summer NEWSWIRE
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific is running a commemorative Canada 150 train this summer that will tour much of the railroad’s Canadian system in recognition of the country’s 150th birthday. The special train left railroad headquarters in Calgary this week and is headed to Port Moody, British Columbia, for its first event on Friday, July […]
UPDATE: GE to shift locomotive assembly to Texas NEWSWIRE
A GE Transportation sign in front of the main entrance to the company’s Lawrence Park, Pa., locomotive plant on July 27. GE officials announced on Thursday that all locomotive production in Pennsylvania will be moved to Fort Worth, Texas, by the end of 2018. Submitted photo ERIE, Pa. — GE Transportation officials confirm that they […]
Fort Wayne society to restore SD9 to operating condition
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Steel Dynamics, Inc. has donated $3,000 to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Inc. for Project 358, an effort to restore the society’s 1950s diesel locomotive, Nickel Plate Road No. 358. The funds will be allocated toward electrical cable, paint, generators or other locomotive parts in need of refurbishment. One of […]
CSX run-through freights return to Clinchfield route for now NEWSWIRE
CSX trains Q696/Q697 were once daily trains on the railroad’s former C&O Big Sandy Subdivision and Clinchfield Railroad routes in the south. After being abolished from the route, Q696/Q697 have returned to the C&O and Clinchfield routes in rural Appalachia. Here, CSX Q696 rolls through Louisa, Ky., on its way to Shelby Yard in Pikeville, […]
Connecticut to run more than 30 trains a day on ‘Hartford Line’ NEWSWIRE
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, left, speaks to media at Wallingford, Conn., on July 24, as Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and Commissioner of Transportation James P. Redeker look on. Scott A. Hartley WALLINGFORD, Conn. — The long-anticipated commuter rail service on Amtrak’s 62-mile New Haven, Conn.-Springfield, Mass., line is expected to become a reality in […]
Two locomotives and two cars NEWSWIRE
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — BNSF Railway’s local between Galesburg and Streator, Ill., L CHI 101, is shown running West at Ancona, Ill., from a public grade crossing on Saturday, July 22, 2017. The power on this train for the last several months has been interesting, anything from former Santa Fe “Superfleet” 500 series four-axle GE’s to […]
