NS AC44C6M No. 4004 at the Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pa. Norfolk Southern Corp. ALTOONA, Pa. — Norfolk Southern’s latest DC to AC conversion locomotive has been released from the railroad’s Juniata shops in Altoona in a paint scheme slightly different than previous rebuilds. NS AC44C6M No. 4004 is part of the railroad’s DC to […]
WASHINGTON — Operation Lifesaver, Inc. is reaching out to top leadership at Subaru and its advertising agency on a new commercial that shows a woman and a man illegally riding in a boxcar. The national non-profit rail safety education group recently sent a letter to Subaru’s vice president of marketing asking the car manufacturer to […]
A recent photograph of a Swiss-built Stadler bilevel EMU that the rail supplier will begin making for Caltrain commuter rail services. Stadler U.S. Swiss railcar building Stadler says it received the contract to design and manufacture 16 six-car KISS bilevel electric multiple-unit trains for Caltrain in California. The contract, with an option for an additional […]
A Providence & Worcester aggregate train seen at Reeds Gap, Conn. Scott A. Hartley WORCESTER, Mass. — Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced Monday that it would buy the Providence & Worcester for $126 million later this year. The P&W owns more than 163 miles of track in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and has operating […]
Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 acts as a shop switcher to place 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 on a turntable at the railroad’s Cheyenne, Wyo., shops in July. Hayley Enoch CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two weeks after Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844’s successful excursion for the 2016 Cheyenne Frontier Days, the railroad says that the Heritage Operations team […]
A new mother-slug combination arrives at South Carolina’s Lancaster & Chester Railroad recently. David B. Clarke New power recently arrived on the Lancaster & Chester in Chester, S.C., with fresh blue paint. The mother-slug combination is the first six-axle power the railroad has ever received, with the mother being the SD40T-2 (ex-Union Pacific No. 8802, […]
Boston Surface Railroad Co.’s chartered Providence & Worcester passenger train pauses at Woonsocket, R.I., July 30, 2016. Scott A. Hartley WORCESTER, Mass. — Commuter trains could be running between Woonsocket and Providence, R.I., by late 2017, if all goes according to Vincent J. Bono’s plans. Bono is Boston Surface Railroad Co.’s CEO. He founded the […]
BIG STONE GAP, Va. — Within a year of mothballing a section of its former Clinchfield line between Frisco, Tenn., and McClure, Va., CSX Transportation has witnessed a notable upswing in coal traffic over the past two weeks. Newly-formed Contura Energy LLC is now leading the way to increased rail traffic out of southwestern Virginia. […]
Henry M. Flagler’s personal business car on the Florida East Coast, No. 90, is now up for sale. Ozark Mountain Railcar website NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — If you want to live like a railroad tycoon, at least a little, you’d be hard pressed to do any better than own the private railroad car of one of […]
AMARILLO, Texas — City officials in Amarillo have voted to sell one of the city’s largest museum pieces — an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 2-10-4 steamer. The city has owned the locomotive, known as the Madam Queen, since shortly after the railroad retired the engine in the 1950s. According to the Amarillo Globe-News, city […]
Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited pulls into downtown Chicago on Monday, July 25, with two Amfleet II diner-lounge cars in the consist. Recently discovered structural problems forced Amtrak to remove heritage diners, ones built in the 1940s and 1950s, and reassign structurally OK diners from certain trains, including the Lake Shore. Bob Johnston CHICAGO — Amtrak […]
Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 rolls south through northern Colorado Thursday on its way to Denver. Hayley Enoch photo Denver, Colo. — Today, the hills and valleys in northern Colorado echoed with the long-awaited sound of whistles and pistons as Union Pacific’s flagship steam locomotive, 4-8-4 No. 844, made its first public excursion in almost […]
