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Magazine: Trains Magazine
Trains, March 2019
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AAR: Carload traffic declines; crude oil, motor vehicles moves rise NEWSWIRE
Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 16. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 501,001 carloads and intermodal units, down 6.8 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending March 16 were […]
Amtrak ‘California Zephyr’ to detour on UP through Iowa NEWSWIRE
Amtrak’s California Zephyr calls at Omaha in September 2018. Trains: Jim Wrinn OMAHA, Neb. — Faced with uncertain restoration dates on the California Zephyr’s regular BNSF Railway route owing to extensive flooding in Iowa, beginning Thursday, March 21, Amtrak is rerouting the train over the Union Pacific’s former Chicago & North Western main line between […]
Barbados adds steam tourist line NEWSWIRE
Steam locomotive Tjepper works the plantation line on March 2, 2019. The name refers to a district in central Java where the loco worked 1914-1990s. Glen Beadon BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The island nation of Barbados in the Caribbean has a brand new steam railway which was opened officially March 11 by the country’s prime minister, […]
CN 4-6-2 on its way to restoration NEWSWIRE
CN No. 5080 was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1914 and spent most of its career in Manitoba. CN donated the locomotive to Prince Albert in the 1960s. Aspen Crossing Cranes lift No. 5080 to begin its journey to its new home in Alberta. Aspen Crossing PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan — A Canadian National […]
Indiana politicians on blocked crossing commission opt for act of Congress NEWSWIRE
CHICAGO — Indiana residents frustrated by train-blocked grade crossings must wonder if it will take an act of Congress to clear their commutes. Fed up with the failure of state laws and federal bureaucracy to carry freight with the railroads, local politicians are aiming to do just that. Officials at a Monday meeting of the […]
Metra seeking new cars; is open to ‘alternative designs’ NEWSWIRE
CHICAGO — Metra is seeking bids for new commuter rail cars and says it is willing to break with 70 years of Chicago rail commuting tradition if it gets a better idea. The agency Wednesday issued a request for proposals for at least 200 new railcars and is urging manufacturers to suggest alternative designs that […]
One Sound Transit board member now opposes dislocating fast food restaurant NEWSWIRE
KENT, Wash. — Sound Transit has begun taking public comment on a controversial proposal to build a maintenance base for light rail on the site of a popular local hamburger restaurant, but the idea has drawn fresh criticism from one significant voice: a board member of the regional transit agency. David Upthegrove, a King County […]
Transit needs $232 billion in investments over 10 Years, public transit group says NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON — At least $232 billion needs to be invested during the next 10 years in public transit, according to a report released this week by the American Public Transportation Association. The study draws from three sources. A U.S. Department of Transportation infrastructure status report, issued in 2015, identifies an $89.8-billion backlog of spending needed […]
Sainthood candidate’s hometown gets caboose honoring archbishop’s fondness for railroads NEWSWIRE
EL PASO, Ill. — A Roman Catholic center dedicated to the memory of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen has added a capstone, of sorts, to its Illinois center … in the form of a caboose. Sheen was born in El Paso and lived in the Peoria, Ill.-area before receiving ordination as a priest and moving […]
UP steam tests Big Boy No. 4014 at the Cheyenne shop NEWSWIRE
UP No. 4014 was steam testing, UP said on March 20, 2019. Facebook screen shot CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific said Wednesday it is steam testing restored Big Boy No. 4014. In a post to the company’s Official Union Pacific Steam Club Facebook page, the railroad showed a 13 second video clip taken from the […]
