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WASHINGTON — U.S. weekly rail traffic rebounded slightly in the week ending June 21, 2025, moving narrowly above 2024 levels after two weeks in negative territory. The Association of American Railroads reports total rail traffic for the week was 487,328 carloads and intermodal units, up 0.4% from the same week a year ago. That included […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board has approved a six-year transportation improvement plan including more than $7 billion for public transi. Some $1.7 billion of that is slated for the Transforming Rail in Virginia project acquiring and developing rail lines for passenger service. Other key rail-related elements of the plan for fiscal years 2026 […]
Labor intensive Hundred-pound sacks of flour are stacked in a single-sheathed Rock Island boxcar at Minneapolis in 1939. The paper lining helps protect the bags. John Vachon, Library of Congress photo […]
Aurora Miniatures HO TrentonWorks well car Scale: HO (1:87.1) Price: $54.99 Era: 2001 to present Manufacturer: Aurora Miniatures North America Inc., 20 Kilchurn Castle Dr., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1T 2W4; na.auroraminiatures.com Aurora Miniatures HO TrentonWorks well car features: 33” machined metal wheelsets with RP-25 contour (code 110) Air brake system with piping detail As-built 53-foot […]
WASHINGTON – Evergy is seeking more than $22.2 million in damages from BNSF Railway for what the utility claims is the railroad’s refusal to deliver enough Powder River Basin coal to power plants in Missouri and Kansas in 2022. The Kansas City-based utility argues, in opening evidence filed with the Surface Transportation Board today, that […]
The odds of a transcontinental railroad merger gaining regulatory approval — which were already slim to begin with— got a whole lot smaller on May 3. That’s when Canadian Pacific Kansas City pulled the plug on Kansas City Southern’s information technology system. The cutover to the Canadian Pacific computer system in KCS territory in the […]
A pair of technology companies have teamed up to provide rail shippers with a broader look at the status of freight cars as they make their way from origin to destination, all while generating alerts about actual and potential delays. Telegraph provides a full suite of tools that allow shippers to price, book, trace, and […]
CHICAGO — Former TTX president and CEO Raymond C. Burton Jr. has died, the company has announced. Burton, 89, died June 19 in New York City. He was the company’s president and CEO from 1982 until his retirement in 2000, and is credited with modernizing the company, helping strengthen its financial condition and meet growing […]
WASHINGTON — Rail unions are raising concerns about the Trump administration’s plan to roll back protections for federal inspectors and investigators put in place in 2021 that they say could increase safety risks in the rail industry. In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in May, the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed several changes to […]
WASHINGTON — The partisan split over the implementation of technology in the railroad industry was on display during a House subcommittee hearing today. Republicans favored unleashing innovation and modernizing outdated Federal Railroad Administration regulations that they say stand in the way of progress. Democrats on the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous […]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration has released a safety bulletin related to a June 9 close-clearance switching accident that killed a Union Pacific conductor in Nacogdoches, Texas. “Based on FRA’s preliminary investigation, the locomotive engineer was shoving two locomotives and five covered hopper cars into a siding. The conductor was riding the consist and […]
In this 33rd episode of The Roundhouse, an on-camera interview series established in 2013, Trains Magazine Associate Editor Bob Lettenberger plays host to Brian Schmidt, Editor of Classic Trains Magazine. The two gather at the roundtable to discuss an endeavor they both enjoy – collecting employee timetables! Listen in, as Bob and Brian reveal the […]
