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Jean-Jacques Ruest, CN CEO Canadian National MONTREAL — Canadian National’s investments in locomotives, track capacity, and additional train crews paid off as the railway was able to bounce back from extreme cold that limited train lengths and even shut down portions of the system for 16 nights in February. “In order to protect customer service […]
The Gulf Coast Chapter NRHS has acquired this Southern Pacific diner that later went to Amtrak. Geno Dailey In service photo of the SP diner that will be preserved in the Houston area. Don Munger HOUSTON/TOMBALL, TEXAS — The Houston-based Gulf Coast Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, Inc. is acquiring a historic railroad […]
Los Angeles Union Station will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its opening on Friday and Saturday. David Lustig LOS ANGELES — LA Metro will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the opening of Los Angeles Union Station with events this Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4. On Friday, an “opening ceremony” in the station breezeway […]
BOSTON — Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authorities are saying problems with positive train control equipment from one of the system’s major subcontractors is having problems that could cause the MBTA to miss the December 2020 deadline for full PTC implementation. Siemens is having problems with both hardware and software it is providing for the MTBA, CommonWealth […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a deeply divided capital, and country, infrastructure spending may finally bring us all together. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday and agreed that $2 trillion is needed to rebuild America’s infrastructure. Ahead of the meeting, hopes for a productive session […]
DARIEN, Conn. — Genesee & Wyoming reported weaker first quarter results on Tuesday as traffic and operating income fell on its North American railroads due largely to the impact of winter weather and the flooding that followed. North American same railroad operating income declined 4%, to $69.3 million. Operating expenses rose 17%, more than offsetting […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale General Electric U23B diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Electric U23B diesel locomotive. New paint schemes. Low short hood: Missouri Pacific (blue and white) and Conrail Express (blue and white, one road number). New numbers: Low short hood: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue and yellow warbonnet); Chessie System […]
OAK CREEK, Wis. — With Precision Scheduled Railroading in effect at Union Pacific, longer trains have become more frequent across its system. This loaded coal train is one such example. Loaded as two trains at North Antelope mine in Wyoming, Union Pacific consolidated both trains at South Morrill, Neb., for the trip to Oak Creek, […]
C&O SD40 No. 7534 and an eastbound CSXT freight train in Clifton Forge, Va. Clifford Clements/COHS CLIFTON FORGE, Va. — Nearly two years after being cosmetically restored by CSX Transportation’s Huntington locomotive shops, Chesapeake & Ohio EMD SD40 No. 7534 is almost home at the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society’s Clifton Forge Heritage Center. The […]
As light fades, a lone ES44AC powers a southbound Kansas City Southern intermodal train of solid JB Hunt containers on the Rosenberg Subdivision at Ganado, Texas, in November 2017. Bill Stephens KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Southern has tightened southbound cross-border intermodal schedules — by as much as one or two days in some […]
Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 heads west on the Minnesota Prairie Line on Sept. 8, 2018. The 4-8-4 is receiving firebox work before excursions this June on Minnesota Prairie Line and sister railroad Twin Cities & Western. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS – Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 is undergoing significant firebox work before the 2019 operating […]
Westbound Manhattan-Bound L-Train riders await departure of their rush-hour train from Bedford Avenue Station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in January. Ralph Spielman NEW YORK — New Yorkers survived the initial stages of the “L-pocalypse.” The first weekend of L-Train tunnel remediation work between Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and Lorimer-Metropolitan Station in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn […]
