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C&O 2716 group partners with CSX on Kentucky rail heritage site NEWSWIRE
An overview of the Ravenna car shops and rail yard facilities that will become the future site of the Kentucky rail heritage center and home to Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716. Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. IRVINE, Ky. — Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716 will be the centerpiece of a new rail heritage partnership […]
Taking Care of Business: Copper Basin Railway, Part 2
Our insider look at Arizona’s Copper Basin Railway continues, with Charlie Conway focusing his cameras on the real pride of the CBR — its employees! In part 2 of 2, you’ll follow inspectors, mechanics, dispatchers, conductors, engineers, and others who are busy Taking Care of Business. Enjoy this video, and then learn more about the […]
CSX Transportation curtails operations at Cumberland, Md., locomotive shop NEWSWIRE
Frank Lonegro, CSX Corp. Chief Financial Officer CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation has laid off about 100 workers at its locomotive shop in Cumberland, Md., as it reduces the facility from 24-hour operation to one daily shift. Workers at the former Baltimore & Ohio shop were informed on May 11. The Cumberland Times-News […]
Heber Valley purchases Pan Am GP9s NEWSWIRE
Boston & Maine No. 77, one of two Pan Am heritage units, leads a freight train near Shawmut, Maine, in January 2013. Justin Franz HEBER CITY, Utah — The Heber Valley Railroad has purchased three former Boston & Maine GP9s from Pan Am Railways. Heber Valley Chief Mechanical Officer Michael Manwiller tells Trains News Wire […]
NS to reopen Debutts yard hump NEWSWIRE
Norfolk Southern CEO James Squires Norfolk Southern Corp. BOSTON — Norfolk Southern will reopen the yard hump at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, Tenn., as it works to ease congestion amid rising traffic volumes, CEO Jim Squires told an investor conference today. Service has suffered on NS due to congestion on the southern portion of its […]
Water tanks in winter
Duluth & Northeastern No. 14 fills up at Cloquet, Minn., in 1958. William D. Middleton Q How did railroads in northern states keep water in tanks from freezing in the winter? Were the tanks heated and insulated, or filled just before use? – James Alain, Chassell, Mich. A Many water towers in colder climates had […]
Hope may be on the horizon for the Hudson Bay Railway NEWSWIRE
Churchill, Manitoba Google Maps CHURCHILL, Manitoba — A group of Manitoba First Nations and a company called iChurchill Inc. has entered into a deal with OmniTRAX of Colorado to purchase the Hudson Bay Railway and assets, including the port of Churchill. This will be good news for Churchill as the community has had its rail […]
Man charged in Amtrak case asks to change plea to guilty NEWSWIRE
LINCOLN, Neb. — The man facing terrorism charges after stopping Amtrak’s California Zephyr last fall has asked to change his plea to guilty, the Omaha World-Herald reports. Taylor Wilson, 26, is scheduled to face trial in June on two charges of terrorism against a mass transportation after the incident last Oct. 22 when, as a […]
New effort will focus on restoration of famed Pennsylvania Railroad K4s No. 1361 NEWSWIRE
No. 1361 is runs northbound on the Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad pulling into Tyrone, Pa., to load passengers for a round trip to Bellefonte in July 1987. Steven J. Brown ALTOONA, Pa. – Preservationist Bennett Levin announced Thursday a new push to restore famed Pennsylvania Railroad K4s steam locomotive No. 1361 to operation after […]
UPDATE: Restoring Reading T1 2100 NEWSWIRE
CLEVELAND — Officers and leaders of the restoration of Reading Co. 4-8-4 T1 No. 2100 speak about what it takes to restore a classic steam locomotive from the 20th century. More information is available online. […]
Short line companies in dispute over operations on Pennsylvania authority-owned tracks NEWSWIRE
Lewisburg, Pa. Google Maps LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Susquehanna Union Railroad, also known as North Shore Railroad, faces the loss of most of its business if a multi-county railroad authority in Pennsylvania awards a service contract to a competing operator. But CEO Jeb Stotter says that North Shore has not had its day in court. […]
