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GOLDEN, British Columbia — Whitewater rafters using Canadian Pacific’s right-of-way to gain access to a section of rapids along the Kicking Horse River in rural British Columbia are now learning that the Class I railroad will enforce its trespassing rules. Locals familiar with the tourist attraction, which draws in more than 40,000 tourists each year, […]
UNION, Ill. — After years of wishing and hoping, Illinois Railway Museum has finally gotten a turntable as the centerpiece of its long-term plan for a roundhouse to protect and display its not-inconsequential collection of steam locomotives. During the auction on March 24 of Union Pacific’s former Denver & Rio Grande Western Burnham Shops complex […]
Norfolk Southern maintenance-of-way crews recently severed the rails of its idled West Virginia Secondary. Here, orange spray paint identifies where the rails have been cut near Milepost 116.5 in Middleport, Ohio. CSX Transportation-owned track to the south remains in service, while the NS segment to the north has been mothballed. James C. Trivett III MIDDLEPORT, […]
A recent screen image of a real estate listing for a Norfolk Southern-owned beach house in Florida. Zillow.com NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern has put its Florida beachfront compound on the market for $12 million as the railroad continues to tighten the corporate belt amid tumbling coal traffic and unwanted merger advances from Canadian Pacific. […]
Cruise passengers’ Summit train departs from Skagway’s Broadway dock in 2015. Five photos, Bob Johnston “Narrow Gauge History, Ready to Ride” on pages 40-47 of Trains Magazine’s May 2016 issue explores the 85-car treasure trove of 3-foot gauge passenger cars that Alaska’s White Pass & Yukon Route deploys during its summer excursion season. The most […]
Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS — Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 will steam again this spring, pulling a 300-mile round trip over BNSF Railway from Minneapolis to Duluth, Minn., on June 4 and 5. The Minneapolis-based nonprofit Friends of the 261 owns the locomotive. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the […]
Union Pacific train LPA81’s power is seen at South Ninth Street in Sheboygan, Wis., on July 24, 2014. The crew has just delivered coal to the nearby Edgewater Generating Station and has parked the power here while they go for a meal. Photo by Rich Peters […]
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Canadian Pacific train No. 493 passes the competition at Wauwatosa, Wis., on June 14, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
A crane lifts the boiler off the frame of Northwest Railway Museum’s former Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. No. 108 a 2-6-6-2T Mallet-type locomotive. The museum is “deaccessioning” the locomotive. It is now on its way to the Black Hills Central Railroad in South Dakota. David Honan SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Another big steam locomotive is headed toward restoration. […]
Kevin Dorm Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific rotary snowplow SPMW No. 207 cuts its teeth for the first time this week after laying up since a 2014 rebuild. The rotary and B-unit arrived in Roseville, Calif., in early 2014 after upgrades at Iowa’s Relco locomotive shops. But due to lack of snow and teething issues related […]
