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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – GMéxico Transportes S.A. de C.V., the transportation business unit of Grupo México, and the Florida East Coast Railway Holdings Corp. have entered into a purchase agreement to acquire FEC in an all-cash transaction for an undisclosed value. FEC President and CEO Jim Hertwig says, “The FEC team looks forward to working with […]
An Albany & Eastern excursion operated east from Lebanon on March 17. Here it returns westbound in late morning. Brian Schmidt ALBANY, Ore. — The Albany & Eastern Railroad in Oregon has published its 2017 schedule for its Santiam excursion trains. This year, several holiday themed excursions trains will take passengers along the 17-mile Sweet […]
An ore train passes old and new signals on Canadian National’s Missabe Sub in September 2016. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. – Canadian National has activated centralized traffic control signaling on the last portion of its former Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Missabe Subdivision main line. CTC has now been activated over the 6-mile stretch between […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Ferromex owner Grupo Mexico is in the process of acquiring Florida East Coast Railway at a cost of more than $2 billion, reports the Reuters news service, which cites people familiar with the matter. The deal could be finalized as early as this week. According to the article, Mexico’s largest railroad has […]
Train No. 28, the ‘Empire Builder,’ departs Portland, Ore., on March 15. Brian Schmidt WASHINGTON – A ruling issued Thursday by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is likely to be the final decision in a case that dates back to 2010. District Judge James E. Boasberg, an Obama appointee, found the […]
PHILADELPHIA – The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has awarded a $185 million contract for 45 new double-deck commuter cars to CRRC MA Corp., a Chinese-owned company with a new plant in Springfield, Mass., at a board meeting on March 23. Delivery of the cars will begin in 2019. The Chinese company underbid Bombardier, the other […]
CHICAGO — Metra is starting the next phase of its in-house railcar rehabilitation program in which the agency will restore more than 300 Nippon Sharyo passenger cars. The bilevel commuter cars were delivered to the agency between 2002 and 2008. Metra workers plan to rehab about 35 passenger cars per year until 2020, when the […]
BELLEVUE, Ohio — Residents in a northern Ohio community are filing a federal lawsuit against Norfolk Southern because they allege its Moorman hump yard in Bellevue is too noisy. The Murray & Murray law firm recently filed a class-action federal lawsuit against the Class I railroad for what they refer to as “one of the […]
A southbound VRE commuter train arrives at Alexandria, Va., in August 2013. Alex Mayes ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Managers at Virginia Railway Express have decided to table further studies on extending commuter rail service to Gainesville or Haymarket in northern Virginia, Inside Nova reports. Instead, the agency is shifting its efforts on a rehabilitation of its […]
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Freshly painted C&O GE B30-7 No. 8272 sits outside of CSX’s paint booth in Huntington, W.Va., on Saturday, March 18. Chase Gunnoe HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A locomotive repainted into Chessie System colors has emerged from CSX Transportation’s Huntington locomotive shops. The B30-7, C&O No. 8272, formerly CSX No. 5554, was spotted outside of the facility’s […]
Employees of Motive Power Resources, Inc. celebrate the completion of the company’s first locomotive overhaul in Minooka, Ill. Motive Power Resources, Inc. MINOOKA, Ill. — Motive Power Resources, Inc., has completed its first locomotive overhaul at its shop complex in Minooka. The rebuilt EMD SD38 locomotive features new on-board preventative maintenance technologies, rebuilt mechanics and […]
