A Union Pacific ethanol train led by AC4400CW No. 7007 skirts the Carquinez Strait at sunset. The train is passing Eckley Pier with the wrecked remains of the steamship Garden City in the water. Photo by Brian Roberts […]
Coast twilight
A glimpse at today’s streetcars
FULL SCREEN Mike Bjork One of the benefits of streetcars is that they introduce mass transit on the city streets where people park their cars, drive to work, and walk. A perfect example of that is with Portland’s original streetcar line where a person is about to cross in front of a northbound streetcar on […]
Big Boy No. 4014’s return to Cheyenne
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 returned to Cheyenne, Wyo., on May 8, 2014, and Trains Editor Jim Wrinn was there to record the moment when the 4-8-8-4 and its tender inched back into the railroad’s steam shops. Only from Trains! […]
With the torches fired up, railfans hope to save F45 in the eleventh hour NEWSWIRE
No. 390 leads a train in 2005. Tom Danneman LIVINGSTON, Mont. – Just 24 hours after two of the last EMD F45s were sold for scrap, a group of railfans is organizing a last minute effort to save one. Late Wednesday, Dynamic Rail Preservation launched a fundraising campaign to save Montana Rail Link No. 390, […]
Desert skyscraper
A BNSF Railway eastbound passes a disused water tower at Bellmont, Ariz., on July 5, 2013, on the former Santa Fe main line. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
Designer of Conrail “can opener” logo dies NEWSWIRE
Conrail-painted Norfolk Southern heritage unit No. 8098. Tom Danneman NEW YORK — Many never knew his name, but that didn’t change the mark he left on the rail industry. Literally. The designer of the famous Conrail “can opener” logo, Tony Palladino, has died at age 84, the New York Times reports. “People don’t want to […]
Trains, May 2014
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Right-of-way
Looking out of place, two CSX GEs take Canadian Pacific train No. 470 down North Second Street in Bellevue, Iowa, on Jan. 19, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
Local hero
With a short five-car train, Canadian National’s local out of Dubuque, Iowa, has just crossed the Mississippi River and pops out of the short tunnel in East Dubuque, IL. The train will travel down the BNSF Railway using trackage to an industry that CN switches before calling it a day and returning home after dark. Photo […]
Drew’s Trackside Adventures: Episode 14 – Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry
Host Drew Halverson heads trackside again, but this time from a slightly different perspective aboard Amtrak and Metra intercity trains. His trek from Milwaukee, Wis., routes him to Chicago’s historic Union Station to the downtown lakefront to the Museum of Science and Industry, featuring The Great Train Story, a magnificent HO scale layout, and a […]
Amtrak crew districts
At the beginning of February 2006, the company had 56 active “T & E” (train and engine) crew bases at 53 locations, where conductors and engineers reported to work, ready to handle from 233 to 286 daily departures. (New York, Washington, and Harrisburg, Pa., have two districts originating from one base.) That year, Amtrak closed […]
Watco wins bid for North Carolina branches, famed Saluda route severed
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Watco is the winning bidder for a cluster of Norfolk Southern lines in western North Carolina. The short line holding company has filed a “Certificate Of Compliance” with the Surface Transportation Board. The name of the new operation will be Blue Ridge Southern Railroad LLC. According to the filing, the new railroad will […]
