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Huntington shop and Kentucky Steam representatives pose with the newly restored Chesapeake & Ohio caboose. Chris Anderson HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — As the metal rolling door arose on the paint shop building at CSX’s Huntington Heavy Repair shops last Tuesday, anticipation among members of the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp., was high. The group was at the […]
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 757 and caboose arrive at Lehman Place, Pa., for interchange from the Strasburg to Norfolk Southern. Wayne Laepple STRASBURG, Pa. — Nickel Plate 2-8-4 No. 757 has begun its long journey back to Bellevue, Ohio, to the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, after more than 50 years at the […]
ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern’s embrace of Precision Scheduled Railroading will put the railroad’s operational house in order and improve financial results, including a 60-percent operating ratio by 2021. “We decided to adopt Precision Scheduled Railroading because it works,” Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires said in kicking off the railroad’s investor day presentations on Monday. NS […]
A slide from a Norfolk Southern presentation on locomotive reductions. Norfolk Southern ATLANTA — The ongoing modernization of Norfolk Southern’s locomotive fleet will be a key element of the financial and operational gains the railroad is seeking with its shift to Precision Scheduled Railroading. Norfolk Southern’s new TOP21 operating plan will reduce the size of […]
With side sheets welded in place, Reading Co. 2100 is ready for staybolt work. American Steam Railroad CLEVELAND, Ohio — Boiler and firebox work are just about completed on Reading No. 2100, the famed 4-8-4 leased by American Steam Railroad. The new firebox side sheets, welded in place and drilled and reamed, await new staybolts, […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Union Pacific has about 30 freight cars to clean up and account for after a Saturday derailment northeast of Las Vegas temporarily closed the line to Salt Lake City. Las Vegas television station KSNV reports that the train derailed early in the morning, Saturday, Feb. 9. The station reported that the […]
Metro Transit light rail in downtown Minneapolis. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS – The Twin Cities two light rail lines set ridership records in 2018, Twin Cities Metro Transit announced Monday. The Green Line, which connects downtown St. Paul and downtown Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota, saw 13.8 million rides, a 5 percent increase from the […]
Late CSX Transportation CEO E. Hunter Harrison speaks before the Surface Transportation Board in 2017. R.G. Edmonson The spread of E. Hunter Harrison’s Precision Scheduled Railroading operating model across the industry may be driven by investors and Wall Street. But it is being implemented by a cadre of Harrison disciples from his days at Illinois […]
From a station to an auto repair garage and now to a historic preservation project, Winston-Salem Union Station is back to its 1926 appearance. Kevin Gilliam WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A 28-month, $11 million restoration of Winston-Salem’s 1926 union station is nearing completion, an amazing feat for a structure that had been an automobile repair shop […]
HO scale locomotives General Electric AC4400CW diesel locomotive. BNSF Ry. (Heritage II scheme, repair patch in one road number and faded paint in two numbers), Canadian Pacific (white lettering with gold herald on long hood, three numbers), CSX (Chessie System, Louisville & Nashville, and Seaboard Coast Line heritage units, one number each), Norfolk Southern (black-and-white […]
Atlas Classic HO scale Alco RS-11 diesel Atlas Model RR Co. has re-released its HO scale model of a well-known Alco workhorse, the four-axle RS-11 road switcher, with an upgraded ESU LokSound Select dual-mode Digital Command Control decoder. The decoder features realistic sounds and smooth motor control under both DCC and direct current (DC). History. […]
PIKO SmartControl Light HO ICE 3 train set Zooming by in a flash of red and pale gray, Deutsche Bahn (DB) Intercity-Express (ICE) trains are 21st century icons of high-speed rail travel in Germany and its surrounding countries. PIKO has upgraded its HO scale ICE 3 passenger train set to include the firm’s new SmartControl […]
