Big Boy No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 visit Granger, Wyo., as part of Monday’s trip from Evanston, Wyo., to Rock Springs. The train will take a two-day break in Rock Springs before resuming its trip home on Thursday. Justin Franz ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — After more than a week and a half of nearly […]
Hocking Valley Scenic Railway will run its first steam excursions of 2019 this weekend with 0-6-0 No. 3. Hocking Valley Scenic Railway NELSONVILLE, Ohio — Hocking Valley Scenic Railway will run its first steam excursions of the season this weekend. The trips on the southeast Ohio tourist railroad will be May 18-19 behind Hocking Valley […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Bowing to opposition from the communities of Glenview and Lake Forest, the Illinois Department of Transportation will no longer support plans for two sidings that are part of a plan to increase Amtrak Hiawatha service between Chicago and Milwaukee. Patch.com reports that acting IDOT Secretary Omer Osman said in a letter, released […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Months later than originally promised, but almost two weeks ahead of a more recent estimate, NJ Transit resumed rail service on its Atlantic City line on Sunday. But the service returned with a new schedule drawing some criticism. The route was shut down last Sept. 5 to allow for installation of […]
Amtrak’s Freighthouse Square station in Tacoma is awaiting the return of trains to the Point Defiance Bypass. The release of the NTSB’s report on a 2017 derailment could hasten that process. TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will release its report on the December 2017 derailment of an Amtrak Cascades passenger […]
SEATTLE — A Sound Transit committee has recommended removing the site of a recently opened hamburger restaurant from consideration as the site of a new maintenance facility. By a 5-0 vote last week, the System Expansion Committee recommended that the site of a Dick’s Drive-In and Lowe’s home improvement center in Kent, Wash., be dropped […]
Big Boy No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 lead Sunday’s trip up the Wasatch Grade, the first public excursion for the restored 4-8-8-4. Cate Kratville-Wrinn Fans swarm Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 in Evanston, Wyo., after Sunday’s excursion from Ogden, Utah. Justin Franz EVANSTON, Wyo. — History was made Sunday when Union Pacific No. […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 began its return to its home base of Cheyenne, Wyo., today, but not before the recently resurrected 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive put on a show along the famed Wasatch grade between Evanston, Wyo., and Ogden, Utah. On May 8, with temperatures hovering just above freezing, Big […]
LUMBERTON, Miss. — More than two dozen cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed Saturday morning, an incident believed to have caused by flooding in the area. The Associated Press reports that a Norfolk Southern spokeswoman said in an email that the train, en route from Birmingham, Ala., to New Orleans, derailed about 7:15 a.m. Three […]
A Geep and a heavyweight office car went on the ground at Heber City, Utah, on Saturday as a chartered train carrying four railroad historical societies derailed as it left the station. Justin Strickland HEBER CITY, Utah — A special train carrying hundreds of railfans attending four historical society conventions in the Salt Lake City […]
BOSTON – When Boston Surface Railroad Co. begins revenue operations, its locomotive fleet could be equipped with positive train control technology, thanks to a partnership with Siemens Mobility. According to a statement from Boston Surface Railroad, the company and Siemens are developing a PTC pilot system suitable for the upstart railroad’s needs without the typically […]
WASHINGTON – The Surface Transportation Board has ordered Canadian National and Canadian Pacific to participate in board-sponsored mediation to solve their Chicago interchange dispute. The Canadian railroads have been unable to reach an agreement on how to share the costs of moving their Chicago interchange. CN aimed to move the interchange from Spaulding in Bartlett, […]
