Minneapolis & St. Louis was known for its freights that ran south from the Twin Cities through Iowa to Peoria, Ill., to connect with several eastern railroads there. This green-and-yellow set of F units was constructed in 1947, which is reflected in its road number. Classic Trains collection […]
Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Sept. 14, 2019. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 526,734 carloads and intermodal units, down 4.8% compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending Sept. 14 were […]
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Trailers will not be disappearing from intermodal trains anytime soon, despite their status as an ever smaller niche in a world dominated by domestic containers that can be double stacked. Trailers enjoyed an intermodal moment in the sun last year, with volume spiking nearly 15% as truckers couldn’t find enough over-the-road […]
A view of the ship-to-rail operations at Savannah, Ga. Georgia Ports Authority, Stephen B. Morton SAVANNAH, Ga. — Rail is a key component in expansion of the Port of Savannah, with new fast service to Chicago and development of new infrastructure. Griff Lynch, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority, introduced three-day CSX Transportation and […]
An aerial view of the new transload site, at left, adjacent to U.S. Silica’s Rochelle operation. City of Rochelle ROCHELLE, Ill. – The City of Rochelle has opened a new transload center and rail bridge for the city’s railroad and industrial park. The Rochelle Transload Center the new bridge were part of a celebration the […]
WASHINGTON – Hours after New York Air Brake announced that it had run a heavy freight train with no crew on board, union officials dismissed the test as nothing more than an unrealistic experiment. On Friday morning, the company announced that it had operated a 30-car freight train with its LEADER on-board train control and […]
SEATTLE — Amazon has joined Walmart in fielding a fleet of 53-foot containers for intermodal service, according to the Journal of Commerce. Amazon will break convention by dealing directly with railroads, bypassing intermodal marketing companies. Walmart’s relationship with railroads is both direct and through the marketing companies. Amazon recently established a third-party logistics organization and […]
A 104-car BNSF tank train travels around the layout at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. This train’s prototype hauled crude oil from Canadian oil fields to Texas. […]
A 104-car BNSF tank train travels around the layout at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. This train’s prototype hauled crude oil from Canadian oil fields to Texas. […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National has announced ongoing intermodal relationships with two ocean carriers, Evergreen Line and COSCO Shipping. CN and Evergreen’s new intermodal agreement extends a 27-year relationship between the companies and includes Evergreen’s usage of such CN-served ports as Vancouver, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. COSCO has chosen CN as its […]
As Hurricane Dorian brushes the East Coast, railroads continue to modify operations in anticipation of serious problems if the storm makes landfall. With Florida East Coast Railway shut down since Saturday, Norfolk Southern has embargoed intermodal traffic destined for FEC, along with Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., where ports are closed. NS officials are advising […]
CSX train B778 works on the Massena Line in Adam’s Center, N.Y., near Watertown, earlier this month. The S on the milepost in the foreground refers to miles to Syracuse, N.Y. CSX is selling the Massena line, connecting Syracuse and Montreal, to CN in a deal announced Thursday. Michael S. Murray MONTREAL – Canadian National will […]
