A new SNCF “inOUI” train set. SNCF PARIS – Almost 36 years after it launched the TGV, Train a Grande Vitesse or “high speed train,” brand of high speed rail, French national carrier SNCF has announced that the name will be history by 2020. In its place will be inOUI, a re-branding effort aimed at […]
Norfolk Southern crane No. 514892MW displays its Ohio Locomotive Crane heritage at Lawrenceburg, Ky., in August 2011. Thomas E. Hoffmann ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota-based IPS Cranes has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire American & Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. of Bucyrus, Ohio. IPS will provide customers with a greater range of services that […]
POTTSTOWN, Pa. – Ross Rowland is the man behind some of the biggest steam events ever organized during the diesel era. Now he is reviving the name of his most iconic effort to help promote a proposed three-year, cross-country tour behind steam. Rowland first proposed what he dubbed the Yellow Ribbon Express back in 2015. […]
A Metro Gold Line train runs along 53rd Avenue near Pasedena in April 2009. The train consists of Siemens P2000 cars soon to be rebuilt by Alstom at its Mare Island facility. Joseph M. Calisi LOS ANGELES – Alstom has been awarded a contract worth more than $140 million by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation […]
A westbound freight passes the Clinton depot in 2006. Chris Guss CLINTON, Iowa – It’s not common that Class I railroads purchase depots in 2017, however Union Pacific has recently purchased the Clinton depot on 11th Avenue South, the Clinton Herald reports. A real-estate transfer document obtained by the newspaper shows that the building was […]
Amtrak passengers enjoy a leisurely afternoon in the Sightseer Lounge while rolling through Hearne and Palestine once home to the Texas & Pacific’s ‘Texas Eagle’ Longview-Laredo section. Three photos, Bob Johnston LONGVIEW, Texas – “Rare mileage” aficionados have been flocking to Texas since the last week in May to find out if that magic “tingle” […]
Kanawha River Railroad crews switch out the entire consist of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit circus train near Charleston, W.Va., in May 2017. The cars were being switched for disposition and setoff for when the final shows ended in Uniondale, N.Y., later that month. Chase Gunnoe NEWARK, N.J. – Passenger car […]
Sioux Falls, S.D. Google Maps SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — In an exemption notice filed with the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, the Ellis & Eastern Railroad said it has reached an agreement with the Buffalo Ridge Regional Railroad Authority to lease and operate 41 miles of track in southwestern Minnesota currently operated by short line Minnesota […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National and a union representing more than 3,000 trainmen reached a deal on a new contract Monday just hours before a strike, CTV News reports. “An agreement in principle has been reached,” said Doug Finnson, president of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. “We’re working on the final language at this point.” Union members […]
N&W No. 611 rides across a bridge near Goodview, Va., Jan. 6 as it makes its way from Roanoke Va., to Spencer, N.C., for service. Samuel Phillips ROANOKE, Va. — The Virginia Transportation Museum is considering letting its centerpiece attraction, Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 roam farther from home. According to Roanoke TV station […]
CP CEO Keith Creel Canadian Pacific NEW YORK — Canadian Pacific and CSX Transportation are discussing a joint marketing and operating agreement that would, among other things, create run-through trains to bypass choke points in Chicago. “We’ve had some discussions with CSX operationally as well as commercially,” CP CEO Keith Creel told an investor conference […]
A Norfolk Southern conductor rides a tank car during a switching move at the CSX Transportation-NS interchange in Point Pleasant, W.Va., in September 2013. Chase Gunnoe WASHINGTON — There are 4,000 fewer Class I railroad employees than there were at this time last year, according to new data published this week by the Surface Transportation […]
