ERIE, Pa. — Just days after the current contract expired Wabtec had reached a tentative deal with its unionized employees at the Wabtec Freight plant in Erie. The four year agreement is set to be voted on June 12 and contains the following agreements according to United Electrical, Machine and Radio Workers of America Local […]
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On the hill above the tracks is Kenefick Park, home to Big Boy No. 4023 and DDA40X No. 6900. Becky Stone OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific has unveiled its latest commemorative paint scheme on Thursday in Omaha. EMD SD70ACe No. 1111 now sports an intricate new paint scheme and the slogan “Powered by our People” […]
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NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern will flip the switch on its new operating plan over the Fourth of July weekend and is preparing for the change by training crews and holding two dozen town hall meetings with employees and shippers at locations across the system. “It is one big network cutover,” CEO Jim Squires told […]
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Bill Zuback photo O gauge E6 A-A set by Lionel Price: $999.99 (6-84650) Cmd low: 2.9 smph Conv low: 7.2 smph High Speed: 67.8 smph Drawbar pull: 1 pound, 8 ounces per A unit. Features: Two can-style motors in each unit, Lionel Legacy command and sound system, capable of conventional, TMCC, LionChief Universal Remote and […]
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Wm. K. Walthers HO scale Electro-Motive Division GP15-1 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP15-1 diesel locomotive. BNSF Ry. (Heritage I), Canadian Pacific (red and black with road name only), Conrail (blue), CSX (dark blue and yellow), Norfolk Southern (Thoroughbred scheme), and Union Pacific (Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray with lightning stripe). Direct-current […]
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Friends of the 261 President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Sandberg poses with former Milwaukee Road E9 No. 32A in St. Paul on May 29. Sandberg’s grandfather was a Milwaukee Road engineer who operated 32A many times on passenger trains between the Twin Cities and La Crosse, Wis. The unit will make its debut at […]
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Great Northern SD45 No. 400 and NW5 No. 192 pose for a night photo in Duluth in 2009. The two units will be together again when No. 400 moves from Minneapolis to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS – Great Northern Railway Historical Society’s GN SD45 No. 400, “Hustle Muscle” is heading north. […]
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ERIE, Pa. — It is hard to believe that nearly 90 days have passed since the strike at Wabtec’s locomotive plant in Erie, but June 3 marks the end of that period and the end of the current contract with union employees there. Over Memorial Day weekend, Wabtec put an ad in the Erie Times-News […]
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Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Electro-Motive Division SD7 and SD9 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD7 and SD9 diesel locomotive. SD7: Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks); CSX (fictional scheme, dark blue and yellow with boxcar herald); Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (black and gray with “Way of the Zephyrs” slogan); Pennsylvania RR […]
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Cimarron Valley C40-8 No. 4053 sits outside Metro East Industries’ paint booth in East St. Louis, Ill. The locomotive was built as CSX No. 7616 in 1990. Mark Mautner SATANTA, Kan. – Cimarron Valley Railroad has been awarded a grant by Kansas Department of Transportation to assist in replacing the train line’s 13 aging locomotives […]
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Kadee Quality Products Co. HO scale assorted freight cars HO scale freight cars Assorted freight cars. Toledo, Peoria & Western Pullman-Standard 40-foot PS-1 boxcar with 7-foot, 5-panel Superior doors (built 1953, repainted 6/62), $39.95. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Association of American Railroads 50-foot standard two-bay hopper with lump-egg coal load (built 1949), $40.95. Injection-molded […]
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BNSF Railway ES44C4 No. 8338 works at the lead of a freight train. The locomotive’s C4 trucks have only two powered axles in the three-axle trucks arranged in a powered-unpowered-powered arrangement known as A-1-A. Tom Danneman Question: What is the purpose of the A-1-A C4 truck on the BNSF Railway Evolution Series diesels, and how […]
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