ORBISONIA, Pa. — The first East Broad Top Railroad photo event in nearly a decade will offer afternoon and evening shots of a 1918 steam locomotive on the EBT turntable and of the Pennsylvania narrow-gauge railroad’s 1927 gas-electric unit in multiple locations around the Rockhill Furnace yard. Antique vehicles and costumed crew members will be […]
Magazine: Trains Magazine
Rail consultant: New York Air Brake’s feat is the next step to automated railroading NEWSWIRE
New York Air Brake’s test train. New York Air Brake ATLANTA — One independent railroad professional sees New York Air Brake’s recent automation break through as an incremental step to fully automated railroading. Gary Wolf, principal at Wolf Railway Consulting, tells Trains that New York Air Brake’s Friday announcement that it started a stopped freight […]
Schneider trucking executives: Precision Scheduled Railroading can help boost intermodal growth NEWSWIRE
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — Officials of truckload and intermodal carrier Schneider National believe Precision Scheduled Railroading can aid their intermodal growth, and are not worried about Walmart and Amazon interacting directly with railroads instead of using intermodal marketing companies like Schneider. Despite a relatively flat intermodal market, Schneider CEO Mark Rourke told the recent 7th […]
Computer runs train at test track, NYAB announces NEWSWIRE
View of LEADER controls from engineer’s perspective. NYAB New York Air Brake demonstration train with computer control at Pueblo, Colo., test track. NYAB WATERTOWN, N.Y. — On a test track in Pueblo, Colo., a heavy-haul freight train started and stopped solely under the command of a computer. On Aug. 27, a Positive Train Control-compliant consist […]
CSX, Canadian National line sale and intermodal deals will produce growth, Foote says NEWSWIRE
Jim Foote, CSX Corp. CEO CSX Transportation DANA POINT, Calif. — CSX Transportation CEO Jim Foote says the sale of the railroad’s Massena Line to Canadian National will generate more traffic growth than if the route linking Syracuse, N.Y., and Montreal were sold to a short line operator. The deal, which was announced last month, […]
Five pieces sold at Indiana auction; others may get a second chance NEWSWIRE
This Milwaukee Road F7, in Monon colors, went unsold at the abandoned equipment auction in Noblesville, Ind. Ozark Mountain NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — The majority of the pieces of rolling stock from the former collection of the Indiana Transportation Museum went unsold at auction this week, which could lead to some of them meeting the scrapper’s […]
Local government insists on full safety recommendation implementation before Point Defiance Bypass re-opened to passengers NEWSWIRE
SEATTLE — The Pierce County Council has passed a resolution calling on Amtrak, the Washington State Department of Transportation, Sound Transit, and other agencies not to reopen the ill-fated Point Defiance Bypass line to passenger service until the full menu of recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board is put in place. WSDOT and Amtrak […]
New Illinois short line to begin operations late October NEWSWIRE
CLINTON, Ill. — Central Illinois will gain a new short line if the Surface Transportation Board OKs a filing dated Sept. 11, 2019, to lease a 10.7-mile section of the Illinois Central Railroad Charter Line. Motive Rail Inc., dba Illinois Terminal Belt, will serve two grain elevators, both Tate & Lyle Grain Inc. operations at […]
Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad steams up a Heisler NEWSWIRE
GARIBALDI, Ore. — Oregon Scenic Railroad has steamed up the Craig Mt. Lumber No. 3, a landmark in a restoration project that could see the locomotive added to the tourist line’s excursions next year. The locomotive hasn’t been under steam since 2009, OCSR reports. The Garibaldi peration received it in April 2016. “We have been […]
San Luis & Rio Grande, Mount Hood Railroad placed into receivership NEWSWIRE
Passengers board a San Luis & Rio Grande train at Alamosa, Colo., in June 2015. Brian Schmidt CHICAGO – A U.S. District Court judge has ordered two railroads owned by Iowa Pacific Holdings to be placed into receivership. On Sept. 9, Big Shoulders Capital LLC, filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois […]
Union reacts to computer-run train test: ‘That’s not the real world’ NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON – Hours after New York Air Brake announced that it had run a heavy freight train with no crew on board, union officials dismissed the test as nothing more than an unrealistic experiment. On Friday morning, the company announced that it had operated a 30-car freight train with its LEADER on-board train control and […]
News Wire Round-Up for the Week of Sept. 13 NEWSWIRE
Trains editors talk about the rail news that is fit to publish. This week, Jim and Steve discuss New York Air Brake’s first fully computer driven train in the US; a fiery derailment; and how a Heisler steams again in Oregon! […]
