Here’s some Southern Pacific freight action at the November meet of the Western Union division of the NMRA (BR) in Plymouth UK. Video shot by Brian Moore […]
Member video: Trackside at Quisling, Calif.
Type of Train: Freight
Member video: Trackside at Quisling, Calif.
Here’s some Southern Pacific freight action at the November meet of the Western Union division of the NMRA (BR) in Plymouth UK. Video shot by Brian Moore […]
Crestwood loads 1,000th unit train at Bakken transload hub NEWSWIRE
Jeff Robertson EPPING, N.D. – Crestwood Midstream Partners has loaded its 1,000th crude oil unit train at its COLT Hub in Epping, about 15 miles northeast of Williston. The facility began service in June 2012 with an original capacity to load 80,000 barrels per day, but now handles up to 160,000 barrels per day after […]
SP piggyback train
For a time in the 1950s, Southern Pacific had the most extensive piggyback operations in the land. Here a train bound from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area climbs Santa Susana Pass near Chatsworth, Calif. Classic Trains coll. […]
Do you know where your boxcar is?
In the December 2014 Model Railroader, Seth Neumann and Chris Drone wrote an article about using radio-frequency identification (RFID) and a computer to track rolling stock and new possibilities for operation. Prototype railroads have been using scanning technology since the late 1960s. Automatic Car Identification (ACI) used an optical reader and a color-coded plate to […]
Big Sky local
Pacific 2119 leads Northern Pacific train 288 east in Silver Bow Canyon, a dozen miles west of Butte, Mont., in the late 1940s. Linn H. Westcott photo […]
The merger puzzle
A westbound trackage rights train is seen at Otis, Ind., in March 2014 with Canadian Pacific and CSX Transportation power. Bruce Stahl Procter & Gamble agrees to buy Gillette. Kmart takes over Sears. Federated Department Stores gobbles up rival May. Mergers filled the business news in 2004 and early 2005, and experts predict the trend […]
Utah looks to build new railroad to tap oil boom NEWSWIRE
An early rendering of a bridge on the proposed line. Utah Department of Transportation An early rendering of a yard on the proposed line. Utah Department of Transportation SALT LAKE CITY – New oil development in eastern Utah could spur the largest railroad-building project in a generation. The Utah Department of Transportation is looking at […]
VIDEO: MTH RailKing 19th century freight cars
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VIDEO: MTH RailKing 19th century freight cars
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Going deep
Norfolk Southern train 11V passes Highland Cut, Pa., on Jan. 18, 2014. Photo by Cynthia Luther […]
Farewell
CSX train Q389 crests “Hicksville Hill” near the Ohio-Indiana line on Track 2 as an empty BNSF-powered coal train waits for a crew on Track 1 in March 2014. The bridge has since been removed. Photo by Joe Kohnen […]
