WICHITA FALLS, Texas — The city of Wichita Falls should get rid of most of the rolling stock from its defunct railroad museum, an official from the community’s history museum has recommended. The Times Record News reports Madeleine Calcote-Garcia, director of the Museum of North Texas History, made the recommendation at a Tuesday city council […]
BOISE CITY, Okla. — Thirteen cars of a BNSF unit coal train derailed Friday evening near Boise City, blocking a state highway for several hours, the Cimarron County Sheriff’s Office reports. No injuries were reported. KVII-TV reports the derailment occurred about 6:50 p.m. State Route 325 was reopened about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. BNSF’s main […]
PALESTINE, Texas — The city of Palestine and Anderson County, Texas, are asking a federal court to rehear their case attempting to uphold a 1954 agreement, with roots dating to 1872, which requires Union Pacific to maintain a set number of jobs in Palestine. A July ruling by a three-member panel of the U.S. Appeals […]
PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The Port of Port Arthur has received a $13.6 million grant to turn an inactive rail yard into a new multimodal freight facility. The Port Arthur News reports the funds from the federal Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program will covert 25.5 acres of the rail yard into […]
A second example of Union Pacific’s new paint scheme, the first on an EMD locomotive, is now roaming the railroad. Photographer James Hickey captured SD70ACe No. 8620 leading manifest MNPRO-26 at Buffalo Bend/Point of Rocks, Neb., near the town of Sidney, on July 27, 2022. The new standard paint scheme features a larger UP shield […]
PALERMO, N.D. — The second of two main lines on BNSF’s Glasgow Subdivision was slated to be reopened about 3 p.m. Sunday after a July 14 derailment involving an intermodal train at Tagus, N.D., near the town of Palermo and about 48 miles west of Minot. BNSF said in a customer advisory that the first […]
DAYTON, Texas — Liberty Development Partners has purchased a 1,158-acre industrial park near Houston, as well as the railroad that serves the facility. Liberty says it plans to turn the Gulf Inland Logistics Park into a manufacturing, distribution, and storage hub. The purchase includes the CMC Railroad, a Class III short line which has been […]
WASHINGTON — A private railroad serving an industrial park in the Houston area has filed paperwork with the Surface Transportation Board to become a common-carrier operation. TGS Cedar Port Railroad will operate 1.28 miles of track in the Cedar Port Industrial Park in Baytown, Texas. The trackage, which connects with Union Pacific, originally was part […]
Great Northern’s Red River departs Minneapolis on the last leg of its daily morning Grand Forks, N.D.–St. Paul run in April 1951. Bob Borcherding photo […]
Nine Milwaukee Road steam locomotives move east out of Marion, Iowa, on April 5, 1954, en route to an appointment with the scrappers. A 4-8-4 hauls the grim assemblage, but dieselization is around the corner. Robert Laker photo […]
BENNET, Neb. — A BNSF Railway spur line is expected to be out of service for three weeks after a bridge collapsed as a result of a coal-train derailment Thursday evening. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said 18 cars were involved in the derailment, which occurred about 5 p.m. BNSF spokesman Ben Wilemon told the […]
HERSHEY, Neb. — Commissioners in Nebraska’s Lincoln County have voted to create an inland port authority to manage a planned rail-served industrial park, and to buy an adjacent factory site with a rail spur crucial to the industrial park plan. The North Platte Telegraph reports the commissioners voted 5-0 on Monday to create the port […]
