MONTREAL, Quebec — Derailment investigation expert Gary Wolf speaks with Trains Associate Editor Steve Sweeney at the 2017 Wheel Rail Interaction conference in Montreal about his career in railroading and how he came to be part of a group that investigated double-stack container wrecks in the western United States. Wolf is the primary source for […]
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A fresh-painted Warbonnet is back NEWSWIRE
The Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, Calif., has restored Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe EMD FP45 No. 108 to its as-delivered Warbonnet paint scheme. Elrond Lawrence A close-up shot of Santa Fe No. 108 in fresh paint at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in California. Elrond Lawrence PERRIS, Calif. — The Orange Empire Railway […]
Delayed ship ready to rescue stranded VIA Rail passenger train NEWSWIRE
A marooned VIA Rail train at Churchill, Manitoba Joe Stover MONTREAL, Quebec — Stormy weather on Hudson Bay means it will be a few more days until VIA Rail Canada can rescue a stranded passenger train by ship. The MV Nunalik sought shelter in Whale Cove, north of Churchill, Manitoba, for most of a day […]
Railroad business trains
On June 8, 2015, Montana Rail Link’s business train soars high over the white waters of Fish Creek, near Rivulet, Mont. During this trip, the railroad’s owner, Dennis Washington, hosted business partners aboard the train. Steven Welch Q What is the purpose of railroad business and inspection trains, and who would use them? – Dennis […]
F125 locomotives now pulling Metrolink trains NEWSWIRE
No. 905 rolls through Glendora, Calif., on the Pasadena Subdivision in June. Jon Waide LOS ANGELES — Some Metrolink riders can say that they rode on the cleanest fuel-powered locomotive in the country as Metrolink’s new Tier 4 locomotive makes its debut in passenger service this week. The first of 40 locomotives rolled into service […]
CSX begins scaling back operations at key Ohio intermodal terminal NEWSWIRE
CSX Transportation’s North Baltimore Yard, near North Baltimore, Ohio. Brian Schmidt JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is preparing to scale back operations at its intermodal hub in North Baltimore, Ohio, which opened in 2011 as the $175-million centerpiece of a new intermodal strategy. The Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal was designed to support CSX’s hub-and-spoke approach […]
Canadian Pacific’s Ohio move explained NEWSWIRE
A simple map showing Canadian Pacific’s new service to Ohio. Canadian Pacific CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific is extending the reach of its international intermodal service into the Ohio Valley through a partnership with a pair of Genesee & Wyoming regional railroads. The Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern Railroad and the Indiana & Ohio Railway […]
Texas shortline railroad opens transload facility north of Amarillo NEWSWIRE
Sunray, Texas Google Maps SUNRAY, Texas — A new bulk transload facility is open for business in Texas’ panhandle near Sunray. TNW Corp., whose companies include the Texas Northwestern Railway and other transportation and logistics operations, recently opened the transload site about 50 miles north of Amarillo. The facility specializes in the transport of bulk […]
New GEs headed to Canadian National NEWSWIRE
MONTREAL, Quebec — Canadian National has begun taking delivery of 22 new ES44ACs from General Electric. The locomotives are built at GE’s Fort Worth plant and shipped to CN in Memphis, Tenn., by BNSF Railway. From there, CN is moving them north across the border for service primarily in western Canada. These locomotives meet only […]
Amtrak opens new Rochester, NY, station NEWSWIRE
The new Rochester, N.Y., Amtrak station opened Friday, Oct. 6. Jacob Adams ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The state of New York and Amtrak opened the new Rochester train station shortly after Noon on Friday, Oct. 6, just in time for college students and others leaving town for the long Columbus Day weekend. The airy new station […]
Dan Dover, associate editor of locomotive magazine, dies NEWSWIRE
Dan Dover, associate editor of Extra 2200 South, The Locomotive Newsmagazine, and railfan photographer, died from a heart attack on Sept. 5, 2017. He was 64. In 1961 Jerry Pinkepank founded Extra 2200 South (the name comes from Jerry’s street address, according to Don Dover, who succeeded Pinkepank as editor.) It was dedicated to covering […]
Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes study ‘inconclusive’ NEWSWIRE
Crude oil loads from the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota roll through St. Albans, W.Va., enroute to Yorktown, Va., in April 2014. Chase Gunnoe WASHINGTON — A Transportation Research Board committee on Oct. 5 reported that results were “inconclusive” in a year-long study of the effectiveness of electronically controlled pneumatic brakes to reduce the risk […]
