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No. 1009 Norfolk Southern CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Norfolk Southern has completed the cosmetic restoration of the Virginia Museum of Transportation’s Wabash E8 No. 1009. The unit was the 10,000th diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, commemorated on June 14, 1951, at its La Grange, Ill., facility. The locomotive saw service pulling streamliners such […]
Grand Canyon Railway F40s head north at Red Lake, Ariz., for the South Rim on July 5, 2013, across a dry creek. Photo by Michael T. Burkhart […]
It’s a cool, fall afternoon in Wixom, Mich., where the Michigan Air-Line Railway has completed its interchange with CSX and is retreating to its base in Walled Lake on Nov. 20, 2011. Six months after this photo was taken, these former Grand Trunk Western tracks were ripped up for a bike trail. Photo by […]
No. 3105, a boxcar, and a caboose are placed at the Rail Giants museum in Pomona. UP gave the equipment to the museum as part of the deal to reacquire 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014. Bob Miller POMONA, Calif. — Workers placed Union Pacific SD40-2 No. 3105 and two pieces of rolling stock at the […]
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Follow MRVP’s Drew Halverson, Kent Johnson, and friends as they trace the Canadian Pacific main line into the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Along the way Drew and crew capture a variety of freight and passenger trains in action, railroad engineering at its finest, and astonishing natural settings that are ripe for modeling. […]
GP38-3 No. 2000 and GP40-3 No. 6500 lead a coal train after release from the Huntington shop earlier this month. Chase Gunnoe HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — CSX has released the first rebuilt GP38-3 and GP40-3 locomotives constructed at its Huntington locomotive shop. The four-axle locomotives, similar to the Huntington-designed SD40-3 project, include upgraded cabs, electronic handbrakes, […]
Eastbound Providence & Worcester train FPCH with B39-8 No. 3909, B30-7A No. 3007, and B39-8 No. 3908 prepares to depart the New York & Atlantic Railway’s Fresh Pond Yard in Queens, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 2009. Photo by Thomas Mik […]
WASHINGTON – The federal government is offering surplus locomotives and passenger cars for sale though a bidding process at its at its website for disposing of surplus property. Included in the sale are Baldwin and GE locomotives located at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, Utah, which closed its base railway in May 2011. Bidding […]
Southbound Marquette Rail train Z151 crosses this street on its way into Comstock Park, Mich., on Nov. 8, 2012. Photo by Jim Guest […]
What you’re seeing here is a transformation that’s nothing short of remarkable. Twenty years ago, a map of West Coast short-haul passenger trains would’ve been little more than a blank page. Back then, Amtrak provided minimal service between Oakland and Bakersfield, Calif., and between Portland and Seattle, though it did field 14 San Diegans a […]
