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About Us Trains: The Magazine of Railroading is one of the world’s leading publications on railroading and trains. We specialize in articles, photos, and video about North American railroads and content on superlative international topics from a North American perspective. Kalmbach Media founder Al Kalmbach started Trains in 1940. Ever since, Trains staff have delivered […]
Metra’s first F59PH is now in service NEWSWIRE
One of Metra’s most recently acquired locomotives is No. 97, an F59PH locomotive originally built for Go Transit in Toronto. Tom Danneman Another view of Metra No. 97 on test runs. Mark Llanuza CHICAGO — Be on the lookout for new locomotives and paint schemes on Metra in the coming weeks as the Chicago commuter […]
Last CNW units in original paint stored at Illinois museum NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific’s former Chicago & North Western locomotives Nos. 8646 and 8701 lead a manifest train into Milwaukee. The units are now in storage at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Ill. Chris Guss UNION, Ill. — As Union Pacific continues to store excess locomotives this fall due to depressed business levels, two of the […]
Trains, October 2015
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CSX cuts fall first in Tennessee NEWSWIRE
CSX Transportation train E-125, an empty coal hopper train, heads to Erwin, Tenn., in March 2010. The railroad announced cutbacks at the Tennessee coal terminal and along the former Clinchfield mainline early on Thursday. Michael S. Murray ERWIN, Tenn. — Just one day after hosting its third-quarter financial earnings call where CSX Transportation cited decreased revenues […]
NS repaints Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 in original colors NEWSWIRE
Norfolk Southern No. 1700 in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Sept. 30. Norfolk Southern CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Norfolk Southern unveiled the latest addition to its heritage fleet on Wednesday with a blast from the past. The railroad recently repainted SD45-2 No. 1700 into its original Erie Lackawanna colors at the railroad’s Chattanooga shops. The locomotive was the […]
NS to mothball 50 miles of coal lines in West Virginia NEWSWIRE
On a dreary fall afternoon situated east of Elmore in the hamlet of Garwood, W.Va., depicts Norfolk Southern train U86 struggling to maintain 10 mph as it crawls across a trestle and into Tunnel 9, located beneath the photographer. Evidence of the Virginian electrification is still visible in this section along the old Princeton Deepwater […]
