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CALGARY, Alberta – No one was injured when two Canadian Pacific trains collided near Calgary late last week. CBC News reports that a yard job and an intermodal train collided at Alyth Yard on Friday morning. Images of the collision show multiple rail cars derailed in the incident. Railroad officials told CBC News that the […]
A Providence & Worcester local freight works a customer at Rocky Hill, Conn., on the Wethersfield Secondary in January 2019. Scott A. Hartley HARTFORD, Conn. – Genesee & Wyoming’s Providence & Worcester Railroad plans to reopen 8 miles of state-owned rail line in Hartford, Wethersfield, and Rocky Hill in April. The north end of P&W’s […]
Amtrak Hiawatha trains meet at Rondout, Ill., in January 2018. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has included $45 million for expanded Hiawatha service in his proposed budget. TRAINS: David Lassen MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has included $45 million for expanded Amtrak Hiawatha service between Milwaukee and Chicago in his proposed budget, Wisconsin Public Radio […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific and Canadian National will appeal an order by the Canadian government requiring the use of handbrakes when trains stop on mountain grades, an order issued in the wake of a fatal CP accident in February. In a press release issued Friday, CP President and CEO Keith Creel said the railroad […]
The Amtrak locomotive named for former CEO Joe Boardman is now at the railroad’s Beech Grove (Ind.) shops. Bob Johnston BEECH GROVE, Ind. — You may be wondering about the status of Amtrak P42DC locomotive No. 42, the “Salute to Veterans” diesel named for Joe Boardman, the former Amtrak CEO who died earlier this week […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Caltrain, the San Francisco-area commuter rail service, will institute a bikes-board-first policy at all stations on Monday, March 11. The procedure allows riders with bicycles to board first on designated bike cars after exiting passengers have disembarked. Other passengers are encouraged to board at non-bike cars to avoid having to wait. Caltrain […]
WASHINGTON — Class I railroads say their increased accessorial and demurrage charges, which they levy on customers for things such as car storage and special switching requests, are designed to make service more efficient by encouraging faster loading and unloading of freight cars. Grain shippers beg to differ. “Many Class I carriers increasingly are using […]
Amtrak P32 No. 713 leads train 290, the Ethan Allen Express, south out of Albany-Rennselaer toward New York Penn Station. The track coming in from the lower right is where trains from Pittsfield would arrive, and then, with a new engine, head south. Dan Kittay PITTSFIELD, Mass. — An effort to establish “one seat” train […]
Former Amtrak CEO Joe Boardman, in Pueblo, Colo., for the first public test of an ACS-64 locomotive in 2013. Boardman died Thursday at age 70. Bob Johnston Reactions to the death of former Amtrak president and CEO Joe Boardman continue to come in from across government and the transportation world. Here are some additional thoughts […]
Trains editors discuss all the rail news that is fit to publish. This week, Associate Editor Brian Schmidt and Digital Editor Steve Sweeney talk about California high speed rail, the death of former Amtrak President Joe Boardman, and a steam locomotive visit to Ohio. […]
A northbound Amtrak Acela tiptoes through the turnouts, exiting high-level Track 20, passing K Tower at Washington Union Station. Doug Riddell Author and retired Amtrak engineer and company photographer Doug Riddell (left) and former Amtrak President Joseph Boardman pose at an inaugural train event in 2009. Doug Riddell A friend of mine asked for advice […]
Today, Promontory Summit is home to the recreated Golden Spike Historic Site, home for two replica 4-4-0s: Union Pacific No. 119, shown, and Central Pacific Jupiter. Jim Wrinn Most school children learned that the Transcontinental Railroad was completed May 10, 1869, at “Promontory Point,” where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific met, and where […]
