Action may be required on your Trains.com account in order to continue accessing content. Click here to learn more.
Northern Pacific Railway Post Office Car No. 1102 will operate as a post-office during St. Paul Union Depot’s Train Day on May 6. Mail collected at the event will move by rail to Osceola, Wis., for distribution. Steve Glischinski ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Union Depot in St. Paul is sponsoring Union Depot Train Day […]
Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. 1225 Steam Railroading Institute website OWOSSO, Mich. — Pere Marquette 2-8-4 No. 1225 will kick off its 2017 operating season in August, the Steam Railroad Institute announced this week. The 1941 Lima Locomotive Works-built engine will be fired up on Friday, Aug. 18 for the institute’s Hand on the Throttle session […]
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train Red unit rounds a bend near a Worcester, Mass., golf course on Monday, April 17. Kevin Burkholder BOSTON — Pan Am Railways added an extra touch of class to Monday’s Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Red Unit train as it moved from Worcester, Mass., […]
This photo shows NS No. 4001, a DC-to-AC conversion unit leading NS train No. 218 through Prichard, W.Va., last August. No. 4001 was severely damaged in a coal train derailment in Pennsylvania on Friday. It is one of only two blue-and-grey locomotives painted by NS. Chase Gunnoe MATTAWANA, Pa. — Norfolk Southern is still investigating […]
Union City, Tenn. Google Maps UNION CITY, Tenn. – Twenty-six years after Brent Lee left Union City to go railroading, he is coming home to run his own short line. The Union City Terminal Railroad is expected to debut in May. The line is an eight-mile stub of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad […]
The Southern Pacific sugar beet car that Arizona Railway Museum volunteers are looking to save. Arizona Railway Museum website CHANDLER, Ariz. — The Arizona Railway Museum is raising funds to move a former Southern Pacific sugar beet car from California to the museum. The car is an ex-SP 40-foot wood-sided gondola used exclusively for sugar […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway recognized a special group of employees for their outstanding achievements in 2016 at an awards ceremony last night in Fort Worth, Texas. The annual Employees of the Year program identifies employees who have made exceptional contributions while demonstrating BNSF’s vision and values through their commitment, leadership and focus on […]
Photographers caught CSX Transportation train K446-07 on April 8, led by two SD40-2’s, on a northbound trip on the Clinchfield Route. Here it is seen going through Dante, Va., by the old depot. Nick Dumas DANTE, Va. — Sources close to CSX Transportation say railroad managers are looking for alternative routes now that recent hump […]
Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3751 on an excursion in California. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn FULLERTON, Calif. – Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3751 will return to Fullerton Railroad Days this spring, the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society announced. The free public event will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 6 and 7 at the […]
Passenger frustration and confusion reigned in early April after emergency track repairs at Penn Station snarled commuter train schedules for five days. Joseph M. Calisi New York Penn Station track diagram Trains Magazine: Rick Johnson NEW YORK — Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman’s April 6 mea culpa laid bare what went wrong in two relatively minor […]
East Penn Railroad SW900 No. 52 leads the last train of cars on the Venice Branch north of Philadelphia on April 4 over the Schuylkill River. The branch will now sit idle from lack of business. Gary Pancavage The East Penn Railroad locomotive crew pose for a final run photograph with No. 52 on April […]
Williston, Vt. Google Maps WILLISTON, Vt. — In spite of a state report that downplayed the feasibility of commuter rail service in northern Vermont, a private company last week announced the purchase of 12 Budd Rail Diesel Cars with the intent to use them for commuter service between Montpelier, Burlington and St. Albans, Vt. AllEarth […]
