CSX reduces workforce at Huntington locomotive shops NEWSWIRE

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CSX’s Huntington locomotive shops repair and rebuild EMD and some GE locomotives. The facility is located on the railroad’s ex- Chesapeake & Ohio main line in West Virginia. Chase Gunnoe HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — CSX Transportation is furloughing nearly 70 workers at its locomotive repair shops in Huntington, NBC affiliate WSAZ-TV reports. The reduction in workforce […]

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New locomotives en route to New Mexico mine railroad NEWSWIRE

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Two Navajo locomotives roll west on NS train No. 309 on Saturday. Michael D. Harding FARMINGTON, N.M. – Two new diesel locomotives are en route to the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. coal mine railroad in northwestern New Mexico this week. The General Electric ET44AC locomotives, which are lettered for the company and carry Nos. 2026 […]

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Getting the most from the ‘Texas Eagle’ detour NEWSWIRE

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Amtrak passengers enjoy a leisurely afternoon in the Sightseer Lounge while rolling through Hearne and Palestine once home to the Texas & Pacific’s ‘Texas Eagle’ Longview-Laredo section. Three photos, Bob Johnston LONGVIEW, Texas – “Rare mileage” aficionados have been flocking to Texas since the last week in May to find out if that magic “tingle” […]

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UPDATE: The numbers behind CSX Transportation’s hump shutdowns NEWSWIRE

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CSX Transportation Yard hump map CSX Transportation NEW YORK — CSX Transportation CEO E. Hunter Harrison has said that hump yards can justify their existence only when they classify more than 1,400 to 1,500 cars per day. One glance at the volume levels at CSX’s top 10 terminals shows why the railroad is quickly moving […]

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Vermont Rail System, Pan Am Railways, and Omya team up to save rail traffic NEWSWIRE

NEWPORT, R.I. — Omya, a producer of calcium carbonate that’s an essential ingredient in paper manufacturing, had an expensive problem: It had to resort to using as many as 300 trucks per quarter to ship product from its Vermont plant to paper mills in Maine. The struggling mills, facing long-term declines in paper demand and […]

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Norfolk Southern investigating coal train derailment in Pennsylvania NEWSWIRE

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This photo shows NS No. 4001, a DC-to-AC conversion unit leading NS train No. 218 through Prichard, W.Va., last August. No. 4001 was severely damaged in a coal train derailment in Pennsylvania on Friday. It is one of only two blue-and-grey locomotives painted by NS. Chase Gunnoe MATTAWANA, Pa. — Norfolk Southern is still investigating […]

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Penn Station derailments expose Northeast Corridor’s big weakness NEWSWIRE

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Passenger frustration and confusion reigned in early April after emergency track repairs at Penn Station snarled commuter train schedules for five days. Joseph M. Calisi New York Penn Station track diagram Trains Magazine: Rick Johnson NEW YORK — Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman’s April 6 mea culpa laid bare what went wrong in two relatively minor […]

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Three Class I railroads send trains to the Masters golf tournament NEWSWIRE

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Augusta, Ga. Google Maps AUGUSTA, Ga. — Norfolk Southern, BNSF Railway, and CSX Transportation have dispatched executive trains to the 2017 Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta. The trains are run for the benefit of shippers and other guests of the railroads, with the primary purpose of providing overnight accommodations […]

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CSX to close down hump at Osborn Yard in Kentucky NEWSWIRE

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CSX Transportation’s Osborn Yard Google Maps LOUISVILLE, Ky. — CSX Transportation’s Osborn Yard in Louisville will be the third yard in less than two weeks to have its hump operations shut down. CSX spokeswoman Laura Phelps tells Trains News Wire that after a thorough review of the railroad’s Louisville-region operating plan, the railroad has informed […]

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