Chase Gunnoe CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A shortline railroad will breathe new life into a Class I railroad line that was partially mothballed in West Virginia earlier this year. Watco companies will acquire more than 300 miles of Norfolk Southern tracks in West Virginia and Ohio, including the majority of its West Virginia Secondary route and […]
Northbound Florida East Coast train No. 226 snakes through St. Augustine, Fla., America’s oldest city, on Jan. 12, 2015. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Northbound Florida East Coast train No. 224 peers through the fog at Stratten Road between St. Augustine and Jacksonville, Fla., on Jan. 12, 2015. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. – The Reading & Northern Railroad, through its Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway operation, will offer a number of RDC fan trips over its lines during the summer months. This marks the first use of the silver Budd-built cars in 15 years. Nos. 9166 and 9168 have been overhauled […]
Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-8-2 550 waits in the siding at Atterbury, Ill., with northbound way freight as the caboose of an empty coal train passes on the main in September 1954. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
A pair of Iowa Pacific E units rolls west with an excursion train in tow on Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision near Muscoda, Wis., on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Kennesaw Mountain looms in the distance as Georgia Northeastern Nos. 6576, 9706 and 7562 — locomotives that are former Baltimore & Ohio GP9, Penn Central GP38, and Pennsylvania GP9, respectively — switch the Georgia Northeastern lead on the CSX Transportation bridge over Tower Road in Marietta, Ga. Courtesy: Patriot Rail ATLANTA — A torch is […]
A Puget Sound & Pacific locomotive working for the recently created Olympia & Belmore Railroad in and around Olympia, Wash. Miguel Guzman OLYMPIA, Wash. — Make way for the Pacific Northwest’s newest short line: the Olympia & Belmore. The new operation was possible after G&W signed a lease agreement with BNSF Railway to operate the […]
Former Texas South-Eastern No. 301 in R.J. Corman colors in Diboll, Texas, on Monday, April 4. Mike Harbour Texas’ Mike Harbour heard rumors that R.J. Corman was about to do a nice thing for a member of an older generation. Turns out, he heard right and arranged to meet up with a vintage Baldwin formerly […]
In a scene far removed from today’s unit and intermodal trains, a small boy watches as a shipment is loaded aboard the Union Transportation Co.’s daily train at New Egypt, N.J., in September 1958. The short line used locomotives and cabin cars leased from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Aaron G. Fryer photo […]
Arizona & California’s train from Parker, Ariz., arrives in Cadiz, Calif., on June 19, 2013. The train will be interchanged with BNSF Railway there. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
Florida East Coast train No. 226 crosses the San Sebastian River in St. Augustine, Fla., on Sept. 1, 2013. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
