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NEW YORK CITY — New York Penn Station changes this autumn will largely be above track level. In a media call on Tuesday, Amtrak’s Chief Operating Officer Scot Naparstek and Janet Campbell-Lorenc, senior director of the Northeast Corridor Service Line, reviewed changes that were made over the summer, and what will be happening this fall. […]
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the Virginia Museum of Transportation to purchase Erie Lackawanna SDP45 No. 3639, currently painted as Conrail No. 6670, and located in Roanoke, Va. The foundation has initiated a fundraising drive, Extra 3693 North, with an initial goal of $20,000 to purchase and […]
BNSF’s Rich Wessler, left, and Amtrak’s Joe McHugh address stakeholders assembled on the first inspection train of the Chief route, west of Garden City, Kan., on Jan. 10, 2013. Bob Johnston LA JUNTA, Colo. — Following the Aug. 21 meeting between Amtrak officials and Southwest Chief stakeholders in Raton, N.M. — which provided the first […]
Water is crucial to any firefighting effort. BNSF carries it on flatcars and in tank cars. Two photos, Justin Franz WHITEFISH, Mont. – At the west end of BNSF Railway’s yard in Whitefish sit seven maintenance-of-way cars. The uninformed observer might not think much about the mix of tank cars and bulkhead flats, but the […]
One view of the former plan to redevelop Chicago Union Station — now scrapped due to negative public input. Riverside Investment & Development via Amtrak CHICAGO — A plan to remake historic Chicago Union Station by topping it off with a modern glass-and-steel box that some critics described as “an abomination” has been scrapped, according […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – A decade-long vision for a permanent and interactive home for Nickel Plate Road No. 765 is moving forward after local officials say development plans for the Headwaters Junction project were the only proposals submitted to the city in a recent request. The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society confirms with Trains News […]
Soo Line No. 2425 will be relocated from Minnesota to Michigan for restoration. Erik Thompson collection CHISAGO CITY, Minn. — Minnesota’s Ironhorse Railroad Park has sold former Soo Line 2-8-0 No. 2425 to Mineral Range Inc., operator of the Mineral Range Railroad in Ishpeming, Mich. The locomotive has been stored at the museum since its […]
Original and replica cabs for Boston & Maine 3713 meet at Steamtown on Aug. 30, 2018. Steamtown NPS SCRANTON, Pa. — After more than two decades of false starts and delays, the restoration of Boston & Maine 4-6-2 No. 3713 at Steamtown National Historic Site has picked up speed and this week reached two major […]
An inbound Metra train pushed by F40PHM-2 No. 212 smokes away from the Naperville, Ill., station while Amtrak’s Illinois Zephyr prepares to depart behind a new Siemens Charger locomotive. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — While Illinois plans for spending money from the Volkswagen legal settlement have changed, Metra’s locomotive fleet will still benefit. The original […]
Quincy & Torch Lake No. 6 after restoration in Michigan. Q&TL Facebook page HANCOCK, Mich. — An elderly narrow gauge locomotive last operated just after World War II has been cosmetically restored by volunteers. No. 6 of the Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad, a 1912 Baldwin outside frame 2-8-0, ran on the six-mile railroad hauling […]
FULL SCREEN Ed Lichtenfels via the Colorado Railroad Museum The Rio Grande tunnel motor is spending in air at the Colorado Railroad Museum. FULL SCREEN Ed Lichtenfels via the Colorado Railroad Museum Crews maneuver the locomotive into its final position at the Colorado Railroad Museum. FULL SCREEN Jim Barton via the Colorado Railroad Museum Crews […]
With a BNSF Railway unit in the lead, a Mexico-bound empty auto rack train pulls into Robstown, Texas, on Kansas City Southern tracks in November 2017. Bill Stephens The trade deal reached by the U.S. and Mexico this week — which The Wall Street Journal dubbed “half a NAFTA” — may be positive for railroads […]
