Canadian National power leads a westbound empty oil unit train through River Forest, Ill., on the Union Pacific on Aug. 25, 2018. CN is seeing increased crude-by-rail business. TRAINS: David Lassen TORONTO — Shipments of Canadian crude oil to the U.S. — already moving at record levels — are likely to increase further in the […]
MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Rail Link will install positive train control technology along more than 600 miles of its main line in Montana and Idaho by 2022, company officials say. Vice President of Operations Stacy Posey tells Trains that MRL will be one of the first railroads of its size to voluntarily install the safety […]
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Court of Appeals has found for BNSF Railway in a case regarding state law on blocked grade crossings, saying in a decision released Friday that federal jurisdiction preempts state law. Officials in Chase County, Kan., had cited the railroad for blocking grade crossings for more than the 10 minutes allowed […]
Association of American Railroads Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads Wednesday reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Oct. 27. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 562,804 carloads and intermodal units, up 4.4 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week […]
The second Super C test run set a record with a 34-hour 35-minute run from Chicago to Los Angeles in January 1968. Crane operators had the first trailer on the ground about a minute after arrival. Santa Fe photo […]
A dramatic nighttime photo shows an oil train on the Erie Railroad during World War II, when German submarines menaced coastal shipping, forcing petroleum from the Gulf Coast onto the rails. Erie photo […]
Conceived in 1907 as an interurban line, Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern never did electrify. In the diesel era, MN&S favored Baldwin products like this blue-and-silver DRS-6-6-1500, shown switching the yard at Auto Club Junction south of Minneapolis in 1958. William D. Middleton photo […]
A four-unit set of FT diesels leads a 125-car Burlington Route freight west at Galesburg, Ill., in June 1953. R. R. Malinoski photo […]
Canadian National’s coal traffic. Canadian National DANA POINT, Calif. — Canadian National coal traffic, already up sharply this year, will continue to grow this fall and winter as export coal production ramps up at mines in Western Canada. “Coal is a huge opportunity for us,” Paul Butcher, CN’s vice president of investor relations, told an […]
Join Trains Art Director Tom Danneman for a video adventure tracking down elusive BNSF Railway motive power in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. The spectacular and out-of the-way region is the scenic backdrop for unique BNSF locomotives such as Geeps, SD40-2s, and SD60Ms. A side trip to the Power River Basin and few “bonus” trains round […]
Join Trains Art Director Tom Danneman for a video adventure tracking down elusive BNSF Railway motive power in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. The spectacular and out-of the-way region is the scenic backdrop for unique BNSF locomotives such as Geeps, SD40-2s, and SD60Ms. A side trip to the Power River Basin and few “bonus” trains round […]
Join Trains Art Director Tom Danneman for a video adventure tracking down elusive BNSF Railway motive power in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. The spectacular and out-of the-way region is the scenic backdrop for unique BNSF locomotives such as Geeps, SD40-2s, and SD60Ms. A side trip to the Power River Basin and few “bonus” trains round […]
