We’re No. 1! Locomotives Number One: We long ago gave up on how railroads number their locomotives. Just as we figure out a particular railroad’s roster system comes along a renumbering, a reclassification of a locomotive class from road to yard duty, or a juggling of order when two companies merge. Many railroads, large and […]
TORONTO — Union Pearson Express rail service resumed this morning (Sunday, Feb. 12) with 30-minute frequencies after all operation were cancelled Saturday, according to the UP Express website. The trains between Union Station in downtown Toronto and the city’s Pearson Airport, which normally operate on 15-minute headways, have been operating on reduced frequencies since cracks […]
TORONTO — Toronto’s Union Pearson Express rail service, which operates between downtown and the city’s airport, has been replaced by bus service as of Saturday, a day after CTV News reported 14 of 18 cars in the service’s equipment fleet had been sidelined by cracks in their brake discs. As of Saturday evening, a notice […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation announced today (Friday, Feb. 10) that it has reached agreement with two more unions to provide four days of paid sick leave. The agreements are with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, which represent the company’s utility workers. They follow […]
The Adirondack Railroad offers excursions behind classic diesel locomotives over 69 miles of the former New York Central’s Adirondack Division from Utica to Big Moose. Choices The Adirondack Railroad offers day-long excursions all the way from Utica to Big Moose, with a stop at Thendara, up to four times a week from mid-July through mid-October. […]
The Catskill Mountain Railroad operates a segment of the former Ulster & Delaware Railroad, which later became New York Central’s Catskill Mountain Branch. The train runs from Kingston west toward Stony Hollow, in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. Choices Themed excursions—music, train robbery, and the like—are powered by an Alco RS1 built in 1950 […]
The area east of Buffalo provides a pleasant distraction with small towns, farms, and a relaxed existence. Here, you’ll find the Medina Railroad Museum located inside one of the largest surviving wooden freight houses around. You will also have the opportunity to ride a streamlined passenger train on the Falls Road Railroad. Choices At the […]
ROCKHILL FURNACE, Pa. – East Broad Top’s 1916 Baldwin 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive, under restoration for nearly three years, stretched its legs Thursday (Feb. 9) in preparation for the narrow gauge railroad’s annual Winter Spectacular railfan weekend. Expanded to a two-day event this year, it is scheduled for Feb. 18-19. The 81-ton engine has created […]
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Trains are running again through East Palestine, Ohio, although the village’s mayor isn’t too pleased with the way operations resumed. WKYC-TV reports Norfolk Southern began operations on its main Cleveland-Pittsburgh line through East Palestine Wednesday evening, to the displeasure of Mayor Trent Conaway, who said he had been told trains would […]
SALEM, Va. — Norfolk Southern will pay a $27,300 fine for a coal spill into the Roanoke River resulting from a 2020 derailment, the Roanoke Times reports. The agreement between NS and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality stems from an Oct. 30, 2020, derailment of 26 hopper cars that sent 12 cars into the […]
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, a coalition of 37 transportation-related unions including several related to railroading, is calling on the Federal Railroad Administration to require Class I railroads to participate in the Confidential Close Call Reporting System, a currently voluntary method of tracking and addressing near-accident situations. In a letter Thursday […]
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has raised questions about Ontario’s safety oversight of railways following release of its investigation report on a 2019 accident in which a GO Transit commuter train struck an adult and a child at a grade crossing in Kitchener, Ont. “This accident illustrates the critical and […]
