Amtrak’s Coast Starlight passes through Chatsworth, Calif., in February 2018. Amtrak is no longer busing passengers around a collapsed tunnel on the Starlight route. TRAINS: David Lassen OAKRIDGE, Ore. — Amtrak service between the Pacific Northwest and California has been severed after the passenger railroad announced this week that it would no longer be busing […]
Union Pacific OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific is responding to disruptive technology — including the potential onslaught of platooned and driverless trucks — with technological advancements that aim to make the railroad more competitive. “The world’s changing pretty dramatically. We all see it,” CEO Lance Fritz told investors and analysts at the railroad’s Investor Day […]
Oakridge, Ore. Google Maps OAKRIDGE, Ore. — Union Pacific’s Cascade Subdivision in Oregon is shut down this week after a tunnel collapsed near Oakridge. UP spokesperson Justin Jacobs says part of the tunnel roof collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, impacting about 50 feet of track. The collapse occurred while maintenance was being conducted on the tunnel […]
Big Boy No. 4014 will be in Ogden on May 10, 2019. This photo was made in Ogden in May 2014 as the dead locomotive was moved from California to Cheyenne for restoration. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Union Pacific confirmed Thursday that Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 will be in Ogden, Utah, exactly […]
Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 in pictured at LaSalle, Colo., in 2009. Bruce A. Daugherty The Union Pacific Museum Association will host a special passenger trip on Union Pacific historic equipment July 22, from Denver, Colorado, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, pulled by the “Living Legend,” steam locomotive, UP No. 844. All proceeds generated from the special […]
Trains visits Union Pacific’s steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyo., for an update on the restoration of Big Boy No. 4014. Join us on a tour of the shop and hear Ed Dickens, senior manager of heritage operations, describe the project’s status and the effort to have the engine back in steam in 2019! Be sure […]
Trains visits Union Pacific’s steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyo., for an update on the restoration of Big Boy No. 4014. Join us on a tour of the shop and hear Ed Dickens, senior manager of heritage operations, describe the project’s status and the effort to have the engine back in steam in 2019! Be sure […]
Southern Pacific cab-forward 4-8-8-2 No. 4219 leads an extra train at Dunsmuir, Calif., in August 1948. Guy L. Dunscomb, Martin E. Hansen collection Q On some early Union Pacific and Southern Pacific steam and diesel locomotives there is an “X” in front of the number. Why is this done? – Leon Bassik, Langhorne, Pa. A […]
Kansas City Southern CEO Patrick J. “Pat” Ottensmeyer TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — Kansas City Southern has enough motive power and train crews to handle anticipated traffic growth this year, but its key route to Mexico has experienced slowdowns over the past five months amid congestion on Union Pacific in the Houston area. “While we […]
Union Pacific C6044AC No. 7342 had finished its rebuilding and was operating on GE’s test track in Erie, Pa., on Jan. 11. Stephan Koenig OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific is the latest Class I railroad to begin rebuilding its older General Electric locomotive fleet with the builder. The railroad has selected 20 C6044ACs for the […]
CHICAGO — Union Pacific is seeking monetary damages from a switching short line which UP contends failed to properly maintain tracks it leases from the Class I railroad at its Centex Industrial Park in Elk Grove Village, Ill. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, UP alleges that the Chicago Terminal Railroad […]
Big Boy No. 4014 in the Cheyenne, Wyo., steam shop in March 2017. Trains: Jim Wrinn DENVER – Union Pacific’s restoration of Big Boy No. 4014 enters yet another phase in coming days as the steam shop crew in Cheyenne, Wyo., plans to lift the boiler and roll out the 4-8-8-4’s trailing truck for inspection […]
