BERTHOLD, N.D. – The small town of Berthold, on BNSF’s ex-Great Northern main line west of Minot, has instructed its police force to ticket the locomotive engineer the next time a train blocks both crossings in town for more than 20 minutes, the Bismarck Tribune reported. Berthold is following the lead of Enderlin, N.D., after […]
NS unveils first publicly funded GP33ECO locomotives NEWSWIRE
A new GP33ECO stands outside the Altoona shops. Norfolk Southern ALTOONA, Pa. – The first locomotives funded by the federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program have been released for road testing by Norfolk Southern from its Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona this week. The first two GP33ECO locomotives, a model previously covered by […]
Trains’ Top 10 railroad stories of 2014 NEWSWIRE
Once known for mainline steam excursions, the NRHS has struggled to find relevance in the Internet age. David Honan 10. The once-mighty National Railway Historical Society appears to be running out of steam. A hotly contested election and a failed reorganization plan brought attention to the venerable organization, but in the end the status quo […]
Trains Magazine 2014 Index
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New Amtrak baggage cars move on special train to Florida NEWSWIRE
A special train made of new Amtrak Viewliner baggage cars departs Elmira, N.Y., on Wednesday. The cars are bound for Florida for acceptance inspections. Don Jilson ELMIRA, N.Y. – Eighteen new Amtrak baggage cars are moving Wednesday from the CAF USA plant near Elmira to Amtrak’s Hialeah maintenance facility near Miami for final inspections before […]
Reassembled 2-4-4-2 ‘Skookum’ again upright after nearly 60 years NEWSWIRE
The reassembled ‘Skookum’ rests at the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad shops near Tillamook on Tuesday morning. Martin E. Hansen TILLAMOOK, Ore. – A unique logging locomotive is again whole – and upright – after a highway trip the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad shops in coastal Tillamook this week. Decades after it rolled over in the […]
In Minnesota, F units scrapped, saved NEWSWIRE
A surviving Erie Mining F9 oversees the scrapping operation of the B units in early December. Doug Buell Pieces of former Erie Mining F9s litter the ground in early December. Doug Buell HOYT LAKES, Minn. – In Minnesota this month, followers of Electro-Motive F units can rejoice that two of the classic cab units will […]
Amtrak to shift ‘Vermonter’ route Dec. 29 NEWSWIRE
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Amtrak will move its Vermonter service to the “Knowledge Corridor” in northern Massachusetts Dec. 29, 2014. The new route will feature stops in Greenfield and Northampton. The train will also add a stop in Holyoke later in 2015 when work is complete. The added stops due to the reroute will replace service […]
Former Illinois Terminal Bloomington station razed NEWSWIRE
A Norfolk Southern freight passes the structure just before its demolition on Thursday. Steve Smedley BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Like so many others before it, a former Interurban station has bit the dust, literally, as the former Illinois Traction System station and warehouse complex, located in the warehouse district south of downtown Bloomington, Illinois was razed […]
Author, historian Jim Scribbins dies NEWSWIRE
Trains collection MILWAUKEE– Jim Scribbins, the career Milwaukee Road employee who became his company’s unofficial historian as well as a prolific railroad author and photographer, died Thanksgiving Day, November 27, at home in West Bend after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86. Born in 1928, Scribbins dedicated a substantial part of his […]
Florida East Coast scheduled trains
Direction Southbound (read down) Train No. 101 107 109 111 121 123 335 Frequency Daily Daily Ex. Sun., Mon. Ex. Fri., Sat, Daily Ex. Sat. Ex. Sat., Sun. Type CSX, NS, Bowden intermodal (UPS), autos NS, Bowden intermodal (UPS), autos Empty rock, manifest Intermodal, manifest, autos CSX, NS, FEC intermodal, autos […]
