No. 3251 in transit on Monday. James D. Moore ERWIN, Tenn. – After leaving General Electric’s production plant in Erie, Pa., last week, CSX Transportation’s first Tier 4 compliant ET44AC is now en route to the railroad’s Erwin yard. CSX ET44AH No. 3251 was trailing on mixed freight CSX Q696 near Johnson City, Tenn., on […]
Northbound Florida East Coast train No. 226 rockets through the Florida countryside on its journey to Jacksonville on Jan. 12, 2015. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
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Conrail E33 No. 4601 rests at the Railroad Museum of New England’s yard on April 9, 1988, after arriving from GE’s Erie, Pa., facility. The hole behind cab is where the main transformer was removed by GE. Howard Pincus OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. – The Illinois Railway Museum will acquire a piece of railroad history from […]
Host Drew Halverson finds a way to escape the office for early spring and summer road trips to the banks of Big Muddy, the mighty Mississippi River! Drew and pal Tom “Sawyer” Danneman make the most of their one-day railfan outings, plus they even share a sneak peek of an amazing river-running HO scale layout […]
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Commonwealth Railway CF7 No. 517 works the APM Terminals yard in Portsmouth, Va., on July 19, 2008. Photo by Grady McKinley […]
GE AC44CW No. 256 displays the Seaboard Coast Line logo ahead of the cab. Curtis Brown JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation will recognize its rich history with commemorative predecessor logos applied to locomotives beginning this year. Last week, photos from the railroad’s Waycross, Ga., locomotive shops showed freshly painted GE AC44CW No. 256 displaying a […]
Claremont & Concord workers clear switches at Claremont Junction in March 2008. Thomas Mik CLAREMONT, N.H. – One of New England’s independent shortline railroads is about to become part of the Genesee & Wyoming empire. G&W subsidiary New England Central filed notice with the Surface Transportation Board last week that it had reached an agreement […]
Led by SD40-2 No. 5810, a Canadian Pacific freight rolls west at Glacier, B.C., on June 14, 1988. Photo by David Lassen […]
Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief No. 3 splits the semaphores at East Watrous at Milepost 750 in January 2013. Chase Gunnoe WATROUS, N.M. – A section of the BNSF Railway-owned Raton Subdivision received signal upgrades in late July, replacing a section of historic early 20th century Santa Fe semaphore signals. Raton Pass, along the railroad’s Raton […]
Amtrak train No. 851, the northbound Hoosier State, passes Reynolds, Ind., on the morning of Aug. 3, 2014, bound for Chicago. Photo by John E. Troxler […]
