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Delaware-Lackawanna SCRANTON, Pa. – The Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad has reached a five-year operating lease agreement extension with the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority. The agreement covers more than 90 miles of track in Lackawanna, Wayne, Monroe, and Northampton counties in northeast Pennsylvania. At its May meeting, the Authority’s board voted unanimously to extend the agreement, set […]
Kevin Burkholder SAGINAW, Mich. – Michigan regional railroad Lake State Railway has taken delivery of its first GP40-3/road slug set manufactured by Metro East Industries Inc. and equipped with the ZTR NEXSYS™ III-I system. With a slug set, one locomotive, known as the “mother,” supplies power to an attached unit lacking a prime mover, the […]
Winter can take its toll on even a hardy soul like MRVP host Drew Halverson. But that’s not the only reason he returned to Florida in January! Drew, along with Mike and Tom Danneman, headed to the Sunshine State’s eastern coastline to explore the Florida East Coast Railway and track down their newest diesels, GE […]
Winter can take its toll on even a hardy soul like MRVP host Drew Halverson. But that’s not the only reason he returned to Florida in January! Drew, along with Mike and Tom Danneman, headed to the Sunshine State’s eastern coastline to explore the Florida East Coast Railway and track down their newest diesels, GE […]
A pair of test units at Toimi, Minn., on May 6. David C. Schauer SILVER BAY, Minn. – On Wednesday, Minnesota iron ore-hauling railroad Northshore Mining ran its first taconite train with two leased CIT EMD SD9043MACs. CIT Nos. 130 and 133 are on lease to Northshore for two years. They will be used primarily […]
A granite train on the Washington County Railroad at Barre. Kevin Burkholder GRANITEVILLE, Vt. – Vermont Rail System’s Washington County Railroad Granite Division will see a rebirth in May as granite is again moved from the Rock of Ages Quarry site for the Army Corps of Engineers. Trains make the trek from Graniteville to Montpelier […]
Simpson Lumber at Shelton, Wash., in September 2013. Justin Franz SHELTON, Wash. – The Pacific Northwest’s last logging railroad will shut down at the end of June. On Tuesday, the Simpson Lumber Co. announced it had sold its sawmill operations in Shelton to Sierra Pacific Industries. In a separate announcement, SPI stated it would not […]
KENILWORTH, Ill. – J. Reilly McCarren, majority owner and chairman of the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad, died of cancer Sunday at his home in Kenilworth. McCarren, a 1978 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, enjoyed a long career in the railroad industry. He served as president and CEO of Wisconsin Central and led the […]
Maryland & Pennsylvania 0-6-0 No. 30 stands at the road’s ramshackle coal dock at Baltimore in March 1955. H. N. Proctor photo […]
Hugh Tarbutton, in white shirt, poses at a 1993 event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Sandersville Railroad. His brother, Ben, is second from left. Tom Hord Hugh Tarbutton, president of Georgia’s Sandersville Railroad, has died at age 82. A lifelong resident of Sandersville, he was employed by or led the short line for more […]
A Norfolk Southern freight passes the structure just before its demolition on Thursday. Steve Smedley BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Like so many others before it, a former Interurban station has bit the dust, literally, as the former Illinois Traction System station and warehouse complex, located in the warehouse district south of downtown Bloomington, Illinois was razed […]
A Minnesota Southern train crosses a trestle at Magnolia. Steve Glischinski LUVERNE, Minn. – The Minnesota Southern Railway hopes to reopen the western end of its line following flooding which devastated the railroad last summer. Heavy rains struck the area in June, heavily damaging the railroad. No trains have reached the west end of the […]
