No. 405 shows off its new Hiawatha nose logo at Grayslake, a detail left out of the first publicity photos shared by Metra. Jimmy Solum GRAYSLAKE, Ill. – When Metra train No. 2119 arrived at Grayslake on Thursday afternoon, it brought a little bit of railroad history with it — in two ways. Most prominent […]
PEORIA, Ill. — Traffic is moving over a shortline’s bridge after a river tow boat struck it Sunday evening. The Tazewell & Peoria Railroad Illinois River lift bridge, which links Peoria and East Peoria Illinois with its Illinois River crossing was struck by a towboat and closed to rail traffic Monday. The towboat was shoving […]
No. 405 makes it debut on Jan. 4. Metra CHICAGO – Chicago area commuter railroad Metra is expected release newly painted Milwaukee Road heritage unit No. 405 for revenue service on Thursday, a source close to the railroad tells Trains News Wire. The locomotive is tentatively assigned to Metra train No. 2119 departing Chicago at […]
Drive through CSX Transportation’s former Louisville & Nashville Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tenn., with Trains Magazine. You’ll ride along on a tour offered during the 2018 Railway Supply Institute convention in Nashville. Interested in more from the Music City? Trains Presents has also visited Nashville Union Station! […]
Drive through CSX Transportation’s former Louisville & Nashville Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tenn., with Trains Magazine. You’ll ride along on a tour offered during the 2018 Railway Supply Institute convention in Nashville. Interested in more from the Music City? Trains Presents has also visited Nashville Union Station! […]
A Metra Electric train approaches the Matteson station on a coach-yard track as maintenance equipment works on the main line in 2017. Metra’s 2019 capital budget includes $54.6 million for track and structures. David Lassen MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Metra has been cash-starved for a long time. But if that changes, the Chicago-area commuter rail […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Commercial Railway and two other companies are receiving awards totaling $1.5 million from the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Rail Service Improvement Program. The agency said it had received nine applications totaling more than $4.5 million for rail service improvement projects. The three selected projects were based on the impact […]
A South Shore train arrives at the South Bend Airport in November 2017. A study will consider options for a more direct rail route to the airport, which could also serve a planned logistics park. TRAINS: David Lassen SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A study of a new rail alignment to South Bend’s airport will include […]
In this video, several Rock Island trains are captured operating on the Mid-Continent Route between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Kansas City. Video by Michael Armstrong (YouTube: RImodeler79). […]
In this video, several Rock Island trains are captured operating on the Mid-Continent Route between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Kansas City. Video by Michael Armstrong (YouTube: RImodeler79). […]
Video via Facebook CHICAGO — Dramatic dashcam video captured a near-miss in November between a Metra commuter train and as many as three vehicles at a suburban Chicago crossing where the warning lights and gates had malfunctioned. The video, taken from a police squad car, shows the vehicle just about to enter the crossing […]
GARY, Ind. — The state will award $121 million in matching funds for grade-crossing separation projects, Gov. Eric Holcomb has announced. Under the state’s Local Trax funding, communities receiving funds must provide 20 percent of the funds for land acquisition and construction. Norfolk Southern, CSX Transportation and Canadian National will also provide $10 million in […]
