OMAHA – Union Pacific will spend $6.1 million to upgrade its former Chicago & North Western Shoreline Subdivision between Milwaukee and near Sheboygan, Wis. The project began June 10 and is scheduled for completion by the beginning of September. The railroad will replace 26 miles of rail, renew the surfaces at 62 road crossings, and replace […]
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New York & Atlantic Railway SW1001 No. 105 rests outside the enginehouse at Fresh Pond Yard in Queens, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 2009. Photo by Thomas Mik […]
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NORTH FREEDOM, Wis. – A Mid-Continent Railway Museum volunteer was killed Saturday when she was struck by a moving train. The incident occurred at about 4:17 p.m. when the 66-year-old woman was struck by a locomotive. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as Linda L. Rowe, […]
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NAPA, Calif. – Proving that just about anything can be purchased online today, four Pullman-Standard-built passenger cars from Southern Pacific’s Shasta Daylight streamliner are being offered for sale on classified advertisements website Craigslist. According to the listing, two cars were built in 1949 and two in 1954. Prices vary from $15,000 to $23,000 and the […]
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An eastbound BNSF Railway intermodal, led by C44-9Ws Nos. 4444 and 5386, passes the former Santa Fe depot in Barstow, Calif., on Oct. 10, 2009. Photo by Gus Lambert […]
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No. 1878, pictured, is similar to the locomotive recieved by the museum this week. Jon Waide UNION, Ill. — Union Pacific has donated General Electric B40-8 No. 1848 to the Illinois Railway Museum at Union. Museum volunteers expect to move the unit from the interchange track to the museum grounds late Friday or early Saturday, according […]
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Two Alco switchers, one active and one derelict, call the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wis., home. Here, on May 31, 2014, one pulls an excursion train around the railroad’s loop track. Both are painted for the Green Bay & Western. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
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Derailed Boeing loads line the Clark Fork River on July 4 following a derailment the previous day. Ted Curphey ALBERTON, Mont. – Montana Rail Link officials are busy this week trying to retrieve three Boeing 737 fuselages from the Clark Fork River in western Montana, four days after a derailment sent the expensive cargo into […]
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Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 No. 2816 is seen on the Brooks Subdivision at milepost 139 near Strangmuir, Alberta, in June 2010 on a test run following a 20-month rebuild. Photo by Bill Hooper […]
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Southbound Norfolk Southern train No. 890 passes Kings Mountain, Ky., on March 21, 2014. Photo by Jeff Wagoner […]
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Specially painted Amtrak P42 No. 42 hustles the westbound Pennsylvanian with six Amfleet through Landisville, Pa., on Sept. 30, 2013. Photo by Mark W. Hoffman […]
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