NEW YORK — An Amtrak employee shot his supervisor and later killed himself in New York on Thursday morning, police report. NBC News reports that the shooting occurred at Sunnyside Yard in Queens. The 53-year-old supervisor was wounded in the leg, and is expected to recover. Officers chased the 48-year-old suspect to the parking lot […]
CSX train Q-032, with a single unit on the point, crosses Rail Lane with a mix of COFC/TOFC on the Philadelphia Subdivision at Elk Mills, Md, on Feb. 16, 2019 … Michael S. Murray … and another single unit, operating as distributed power, is midtrain. CSX is increasing its use of distributed power as part […]
SCRANTON, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority has been awarded a $400,000 grant for engineering costs associated with restoration of the Lackawanna Cutoff, already under construction in New Jersey. The Local Share Account grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority covers engineering costs for construction of track and structures for the passenger rail project. […]
A Metra Milwaukee West train arrives at the Roselle station in January 2019. Roselle will be one of the 59 stations hosting a Metra “Safety Blitz” in 2019, with Metra employees offering safety information at the station on the morning of April 16. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra is planning Operation Lifesaver “Safety Blitzes” […]
An inbound Metra Rock Island train passes the Robbins flagstop station in December 2018. Metra is developing a policy that would require an assessment of station use every two years, as well as establishing procedures for communities to request new stations. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra is developing a plan to assess stations throughout […]
NEWARK — Harsh realities have overtaken New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s second year at the helm of the nation’s most densely populated state, at least as far as the NJ Transit budget is concerned. The website NJspotlight.com reports that the practice of using capital funds to help pay for daily operations — a practice of […]
An Amtrak locomotive moves former Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 No. 4859 during a previous relocation at the Harrisburg, Pa., station. Dan Cupper HARRISBURG, Pa. — The first GG-1 to pull a train to Harrisburg is back under cover after being dislocated for work at the Harrisburg station. Former Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 No. 4859 and an N6b […]
Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611, shown at Jamestown, N.C., in September 2018, will star in more public appearances at the Strasburg Rail Road in September 2019. Trains: Jim Wrinn STRASBURG, Pa. — After record-breaking ticket sales, the Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc., of Roanoke, Va., and the Strasburg Rail Road Co., announce more […]
Replica steam locomotive Union Pacific 4-4-0 No. 119 stands outside its modern engine shed in rural Utah in 2018. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn Come May 10, 2019, two locomotives will be in the spotlight for some 12,000 spectators at the 150th celebration of the first Transcontinental Railroad completion: Replicas of Central Pacific Jupiter and Union Pacific […]
Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 23. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 503,017 carloads and intermodal units, down 4.5 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending March 23 were […]
The 2-8-0 sports its new retro paint in the Duluth shop on March 26. Tim Schandel, Lake Superior Railroad Museum DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Railroad Museum’s Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 28 has been repainted to its original Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway paint scheme and number in preparation for the 2019 […]
Dave Mull in the Carson & Colorado shop David Lustig DURANGO, Colo. – Southern Pacific narrow gauge 4-6-0 No. 18, normally a denizen of California’s Owens Valley, is having a ball right now. Temporarily working out of Durango on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, it’s burnishing the rails hauling passengers and photo freights, […]
