WASHINGTON — CSX Transportation is now operating as well as or better than it did in 2016 thanks to improved terminal dwell and average train speeds holding steady, railroad executives told federal regulators this week. But a merchandise shipper told regulators that key performance metrics don’t show much that matters to them. On-time arrivals, re-crew […]
Then Canadian National CEO E. Hunter Harrison, left, and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer James Foote worked well together when this picture was taken for CN’s annual report in 2008. Foote now works for Harrison again, as CSX Corp.’s chief operating officer. Canadian National JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Management changes happening at CSX Transportation echo the […]
MAJESTY IN MOTION: Atlas O’s much anticipated F7 diesels have arrived, and these are some of the most striking locomotives to ride the three-rails. The O gauge models have two can-style motors, a die-cast metal chassis, and a smoke unit. A-units include a scale pilot and operate on O-36 or wider-diameter track. B units require […]
Cindy Sanborn, CSX’s chief operating officer CSX Corp. Fredrik Eliasson, CSX’s chief marketing officer CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Corp. today announced that James M. Foote is joining the company as chief operating officer. Foote will have responsibility for both operations and sales and marketing and will be based at the company’s headquarters in […]
The MTH S scale Electro-Motive Division F3 diesel features the firm’s Digital Command System (DCS) and Proto-Sound 3.0 system. The locomotive operates on DCS, Digital Command Control (DCC), alternating current (AC), and direct-current (DC) layouts. The model comes equipped with American Flyer style wheels and couplers, but scale parts are included. (The conversion was detailed […]
NEW YORK — Building high speed passenger trains is not only technically intense, but a new Alstom video shows that it is also equal parts art and science fiction. The France-based locomotive and trainset manufacturer recently debuted a new video showing how Alstom engineers and designers collaborate to make digital three-dimensional models of new equipment […]
Iowa Pacific’s E9 No. 101 operates on a Polar Express excursion out of Middleton, Wis., in 2015. Due to an ongoing dispute, Iowa Pacific will not operate Polar Express trains this year. David Lassen DURANGO, Colo. — Polar Express trains will not be stopping at tourist railroads owned by Iowa Pacific Holdings and the company’s […]
Embedded YouTube video courtesy of Bruce Miller, Cooper Mountain Photography. GARIBALDI, Ore. — Skip Lichter’s locomotive made it. Yes, from a lonely Wisconsin valley, over the Great Plains, and through the Rocky Mountains, Lichter’s 2-8-2, Saginaw Timber (or Polson Lumber) No. 2 is at its new home in Oregon. The trip took 13 days, start-to-finish. […]
Willard, Ohio Google Maps JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation has shut down the hump at Willard Yard in Ohio, the latest terminal to be converted to a flat-switching facility under CEO E. Hunter Harrison and his Precision Scheduled Railroading operating plan. Last year, Willard was the fourth-busiest hump yard on the railroad, when it processed […]
URCHIN EXPRESS: Have a school on your O gauge layout? Then you need a school bus barn! The latest industrial structure from Menards is the no. 279-4033 school bus garage. It includes a three-bay work center complete with two buses, maintenance equipment, workers, tools, and background detailing. Outside the shop you’ll find a third bus […]
CHANGCHUN, China — Chinese-made Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Orange Line cars are expected to depart for the U.S. Nov. 18. Officials for CRRC MA — the Boston-based arm of the gigantic Chinese rail rolling stock and equipment supplier — say cars will first move from northeast China were they were made, to the major port […]
A side view of the short hood end of Combios de Portugal Alco RSC-2 No. 1501 on display in Portugal’s national railway museum. Ralph Spielman A nose-on view of No. 1501. Except for different brakes, buffers, and broad gauge, this is essentially the same locomotive that would have operated in the Midwest in the 1940s […]
