A train for Silverton departs Durango in June 2015. Brian Schmidt DURANGO, Colo. – Ridership on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is down 27 percent this year due to shutdowns related to wildfires and mudslides, the Durango Herald reports. Since June, the railroad has had 54,000 cancellations as a result of a wildfire […]
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are refusing at this time to step in and resolve a disagreement between Metra and Amtrak over use of Chicago Union Station, but are keeping the door open to intervene should Metra raise valid objections in the future. In a five-page decision released by the Surface Transportation Board on Aug. 22, […]
Join Trains for a ride on a former Northern Pacific triple-combine express car as a retired mail car clerk, a historical interpreter, and a reporter meet to catch a mail bag full of history on a moving train on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway in October 2017. Only from Trains! […]
No. 14 heads west out of Piru in April 2016. Luke Renish FILLMORE, Calif. – A one-year-long effort by California’s Fillmore & Western Railway has culminated in the completion of the new 45-foot Hunn Creek Bridge in Santa Paula and the reconnection of the railroad with the Union Pacific and the outside world. A number […]
Georgia’s new Appalachian Regional Port opened on Wednesday. Georgia Ports, via Twitter CRANDALL, Georgia — The Appalachian Regional Port, Georgia’s second inland port, has opened in the northwest part of the state to accept goods to be shipped into and out of the state. The $26 million port, about 100 miles northwest of Atlanta, opened […]
A partial screen image capture from the Federal Railroad Administration’s quarterly update on railroads’ progress implementing positive train control. Federal Railroad Administration website WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration today released the 2018 Quarter 2 status update on railroads’ self-reported progress toward implementing positive train control systems. The latest data, current […]
WAYNE JUNCTION, Mich. — Crews with Amtrak, CSX Transportation, and their contractors, successfully replaced a four-diamond railroad crossing in Wayne as part of a planned maintenance project. A railroad diamond is an intersection between two or more rail lines, in this case, owned by the Michigan Department of Transportation and CSX. The project was funded […]
Some days you just want a relaxing ride on an open-air car. Join Trains for this trip on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad from Garibaldi to Rockaway Beach, Ore., in June 2018. Only from Trains! […]
Rock Island E6 No. 630 will be part of a night photo session sponsored by Trains on Sept. 15. Rob Schriener CHICAGO, Ill. — The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Metra, and Iowa Northern Railway are partnering to transport historic streamlined Rock Island locomotives Nos. 652 and 630 to LaSalle Street Station for Nickel Plate […]
Georgetown, Del. Google Maps GEORGETOWN, Del. — After 36 years serving customers in Sussex County, Delaware, the Delaware Coast Line Railroad is calling it quits. To Dan Herholt, son of the railroad’s founder Michael Herholt and president of the company since 2008, “It’s sort of a forced retirement.” The short line operates trains over two […]
Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 2926 raises steam in Albuquerque, N.M., on Aug. 22. More work needs to be done before the locomotive is ready for main line operation. William P. Diven ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s been a long pull — 18 years since Santa Fe Railway No. 2926 creaked and groaned out of an Albuquerque […]
Join Trains on a ride behind Soo Line 2-8-2 No. 1003 as it runs between Hartford and Horicon, Wis., in November 2017 for to pick-up coal before bedding down for winter. Only from Trains! […]
