On May 23, 1996, Santa Fe train P-CHLA1-21, a 5,338-ton, 7,133-foot train, at Supai Summit in northern Arizona. John C. Lucas Have you read Fred W. Frailey’s October 2017 “Commentary,” “24 hours at Supai Summit?” He spills all of the details of a 1996 visit to Kaibab National Forest 4 miles east of Williams, Ariz., […]
Genesee & Wyoming and SEACOR have announced a joint venture to own and operate a rail ferry service, CG Railway, between the U.S. and Mexico. Business Wire via Genesee & Wyoming One of two 585-foot roll-on-roll-off rail ferries providing four-day CG Railway service between the ports of Mobile, Ala., and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, in Mexico. Each […]
WINTER PARK, Fla. — A video production telling the story of Florida’s historic trains will premiere at Mead Botanical Garden in Winter Park at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 13. The one-hour documentary, Selling Sunshine: Florida Trains, is produced by Rich Luckin of Luckin Productions in conjunction with Kalmbach Publishing’s Trains Magazine and Pete Hansen. The […]
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. […]
