Louisville & Nashville adopted Alcos by the 1950s on lines in eastern Kentucky. The railroad first painted RS3s, FA2s, and FB2s in black, cream, and orange, but later opted for simpler schemes. R.D. Sharpless, Louisville & Nashville Historical Society collection Q My family moved from Texas to southeastern Kentucky in the mid-1950s, and I remember […]
Check out our latest DVD production: “Selling Sunshine, the Florida Trains,” available in late August 2017. You’ll learn about the passenger trains that opened the Sunshine State to tourism and the railroads they ran on. […]
A BNSF Railway photo shows water rising above the rail on the Conroe Subdivision in Cleveland, Texas. Cleveland is approximately one hour north of Houston. BNSF Railway This BNSF-issued map illustrates the current state of its network in the Houston area as of Tuesday evening. BNSF Railway HOUSTON — Historic flooding from Hurricane Harvey is […]
A screenshot of a map of the proposed Great Lakes Basin Railroad that was intended to bypass Chicago congestion. The Surface Transportation Board rejected the parent company’s application on Aug. 31 as incomplete. Great Lakes Basin Transportation Co. WASHINGTON — In a unanimous decision today, the Surface Transportation Board rejected an application by the Great […]
An eastbound Union Pacific-Ferromex grain train rolls through Gothenburg, Neb., in October 2016. Chase Gunnoe MINNEAPOLIS — Cargill is investing $18 million to expand a Union Pacific-served grain facility in Gibbon, Neb. The expansion will increase the facility’s capacity by an additional 2 million bushels of grain storage and increase its unload capacity of 65,000 […]
A Facebook page promoting railroad safety and education shared screenshots from Virtual Railfan’s Horseshoe Curve camera showing the three trespassers and vandals from Sunday’s incident near Altoona. STOP Photography and Trespassing on Railroad Tracks via Facebook ALTOONA, Pa. — A video streaming service for railroad enthusiasts recently spotted more than just trains at the Horseshoe […]
CHICAGO — Amtrak, Siemens, and state of Illinois officials staged a media open house at Chicago Union Station on Monday marking the debut of the first Charger locomotives assigned to Midwest routes. “Twelve of the 33 ordered Chargers are on the property and I can put ten in service today,” says Mike Yates, Amtrak’s Chicago-based […]
CHICAGO — This morning, Amtrak Hiawatha train No. 329 departed Chicago Union Station for Milwaukee behind a new SC-44 Charger locomotive, No. 4620. This is the first solo revenue trip for the Illinois Department of Transportation’s SC-44 locomotives since arriving in the Windy City this spring. This locomotive and its counterparts are owned by a […]
CSX EMD SD60Ms, SD70MACs, SD50-2s, SD40-2s, and an assortment of other GE and EMD-built locomotives sit in storage at CSX Transportation’s Russell, Ky., near Wurtland, Ky., in July 2017. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hundreds of locomotives have ended up in storage since CEO E. Hunter Harrison took the top spot at CSX Transportation earlier this year. […]
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus car No. 57 is on its way to a new home in Seffner, Fla., to be the community center for a small residential village of retired circus performers. Joe DeMike SEFFNER, Fla. — The Showpeople’s Winter Quarters of Seffner Aug. 16 announced the donation of retired circus train […]
A map of the Port Freeport facilities shows available land for development and the amenities associated with the properties. Port Freeport FREEPORT, Texas — Port Freeport officials recently gathered along the Gulf Coast for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new rail development project. Phase one of the project, known as Parcel 14, is one of […]
A Deutsche Bahn ICE high-speed train heading north through Rastatt on Sept. 5, 2016. Keith Fender Rastatt, Germany Google Maps FRANKFURT, Germany — Following the collapse of a new high speed rail tunnel being built underneath the German town of Rastatt, about 100 miles south of Frankfurt am Main, the existing main line railway directly […]
