PALESTINE, Texas — Union Pacific has filed suit to overturn a contract dating to 1872 that guarantees a certain number of jobs in Palestine, an east Texas community of 18,136 located 110 miles southwest of Dallas. The Palestine Herald-Press reports the suit, filed on Nov. 27, contends the contract should have been invalidated by a […]
NEW RICHMOND, Wis. – Canadian National subsidiary Wisconsin Central has begun construction on a new AutoPort automobile processing and transshipment facility just west of New Richmond along its former Soo Line/WC Minneapolis Subdivision. The facility will serve as an unloading site for vehicles, which will then be trucked to dealers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. […]
All this month — November 2019 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include ACL diesel- and steam-powered freight trains through time. […]
MONTREAL — Canadian Pacific will build a new transload terminal in Montreal, with the first phase of the project to open in June 2020. The 118,000-square-foot facility, to be operated by Quebec-based transportation and warehousing firm TYT Group, will be served by more than 4,000 feet of existing track at CP’s Cote Saint-Luc Yard. It […]
EADS, Colo. — The company interested in buying Union Pacific’s dormant Tennessee Pass line through the Colorado Rockies would do so to provide a more direct route for grain shipments from eastern Colorado and Kansas, according to the company’s lawyer. Colorado Pacific Railroad, which bought the former Missouri Pacific Towner Line in eastern Colorado, notified […]
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday announced 55 projects in 35 states which will receive funding under the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development grants, with funding totaling $900 million. Half of the funds were awarded to projects in rural areas, with a maximum award of $25 million for a single project and no […]
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – Roadrunner Transportation Systems has sold its intermodal business to Universal Logistics Holdings for $51 million in cash. A soft intermodal market, effects of Hurricane Dorian, and a malware attack were reasons for the sale, Michael Gettle, Roadrunner’s chief operating officer, told an investors’ conference call. Roadrunner has provided drayage services between […]
St. Croix Valley No. 1363 works at the Titan Lansing sand plant in North Branch, Minn., on Oct. 8, 2019. Steve Glischinski CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – Take a look along railroad lines in western Wisconsin, and you’ll find evidence of the frac sand boom that’s meant good times for railroads. BNSF Railway serves a plant […]
Two DPU locomotives bring up the rear as an empty Union Pacific unit coal train heads west through Lombard, Ill., in June 2019. Moody’s Investor Services foresees a continued slide in production of Powder River Basin coal, previously a major source of traffic for UP and BNSF Railway. TRAINS: David Lassen NEW YORK – Despite […]
Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON – The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending November 2, 2019, as well as volumes for October 2019. U.S. railroads originated 1,224,477 carloads in October 2019, down 8.4 percent, or 112,703 carloads, from October 2018. U.S. railroads also originated 1,331,944 containers and […]
A crew member returns to the locomotive after lining a switch at Canadian Pacific’s yard in Bensenville, Ill. Class I railroads have formally introduced a proposal for one-man crews on road trains. TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — After hinting at it for months, Class I railroads have officially asked that single-person crews be part of […]
WASHINGTON — Six Class I railroads filed a Section 6 notice on Friday, kicking off what is expected to be a tense round of negotiations with labor unions representing more than 125,000 railroads across the country. In a press release announcing the notice, officials with the National Railway Labor Conference and the National Carriers’ Conference […]
