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Superliner lounge used as coach diner awaits dinner guests on southbound Auto Train in 2015. Breakfast and dinner have been included in the fare price for all passengers since Amtrak started its version in 1983. Bob Johnston WASHINGTON — Complimentary dinners are on their way out for Auto Train coach passengers. Food prepared onboard may […]
CSX Transportation train Q389-08 brings west the last of Amtrak’s F40PHR locomotives and a lone P40. Amtrak’s Delaware shops sold the units to Larry’s Truck Electric earlier in the year, the sale marked the last of the F40s on Amtrak as well as the first P40 to go to a third party for scrap. Stephan […]
CSX SD70ACe-T4 No. 8908 shows off its fresh paint. Erik Landrum CINCINNATI – Delivery of CSX Transportation’s first SD70ACe-T4 locomotives began last week when nine of the 10-unit order was shipped from Progress Rail’s Muncie, Ind., plant. Norfolk Southern delivered the nine units from Muncie to Cincinnati where they were interchanged to CSX. The order, […]
Connecticut Department of Transportation M2 No. 8705 leads a weekend Metro-North New Haven-Grand Central terminal train at West Haven, Conn., March 7, 2015. This M2 set would be one of the last of the fleet to operate until the end of 2018. Scott A. Hartley NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After more than 44 years of […]
A plant grows out of a heavily-damaged dining car at Amtrak’s Beech Grove, Ind., shops on Dec. 14, 2018. The car, out of service since 2002, is not among those included in Amtrak’s latest list of equipment for sale. Bob Johnston WASHINGTON — Superliners and Amfleet cars are among the latest batch of inactive rolling […]
OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific is simplifying its intermodal terminal network to improve service in Chicago, which will result in idling the Global III terminal in Rochelle, Ill., along with the Canal Street Container Depot. UP currently operates six intermodal facilities in and around the Railroad Capital. “Many of our ramps handle a mix of […]
CSX commemorative units Nos. 1776 and 911 at Huntington, W.Va., on April 30, 2019. Chris Anderson HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When specially-painted CSX locomotives Nos. 1776 and 911 rolled out of the paint shop in Huntington on Tuesday, the big GE Evolution Series engines essentially ushered in a new era at the railroad, one which could […]
CSX debuted this First Responders unit on April 30, 2019. Chris Anderson CSX veterans unit No. 1776 at Huntington, W.Va., on April 30. Chris Anderson HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — CSX today released two specially painted units from its Huntington Locomotive Shop, No. 911, a first responders commemorative unit, and No. 1776, that salutes veterans. In keeping with […]
OAK CREEK, Wis. — With Precision Scheduled Railroading in effect at Union Pacific, longer trains have become more frequent across its system. This loaded coal train is one such example. Loaded as two trains at North Antelope mine in Wyoming, Union Pacific consolidated both trains at South Morrill, Neb., for the trip to Oak Creek, […]
This schematic of Conrail’s North Jersey Service Area shows planned and current improvements. Courtesy of Conrail Greenville Yard in Bayonne and Jersey City, N.J., will see projects addressing capacity needs in several areas. Courtesy of Conrail This overhead image shows the current Point No Point Bridge over the Passaic River, as well as the proposed […]
HARTFORD, Conn. — The commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Transportation says bar cars, once a popular feature on Metro-North’s New Haven Line, are unlikely to return any time soon. Joseph Guilietti, the DOT commissioner and a former Metro-North president, told the Hartford Courant the bar cars would only be viable if an outside vendor was […]
Passengers board the southbound City of New Orleans at Greenwood, Miss., on Sept. 10, 2015. Rural and mid-sized communites could lose intercity passenger service under the corridor-focused plans put forward by the Trump administration and Amtrak. Bob Johnston WASHINGTON — More details have emerged from President Donald Trump’s proposed Amtrak cuts in the 2020 federal […]
