PORTER, Ind. — Work to double track the South Shore Line through Michigan City, Ind., should be completed by Thanksgiving, Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District officials told the district’s board of trustees at a Monday meeting. The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that overall, the double-track work between Gary, Ind., and Michigan City is more […]
MONTREAL – Canadian National set a new weekly tonnage record for Canadian grain the week of Oct. 16, the railroad announced Monday. CN move more than 806,000 metric tons of grain from Western Canada, eclipsing the previous record by more than 50,000 metric tons. The record, CN says, comes after CN posted its second-best September […]
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — Progress Rail CEO Marty Haycraft, senior vice president of Caterpillar Inc., has announced plans to retire at the end of 2022, and will be succeeded by John Newman, the company has announced. Haycraft joined Progress Rail in 1993 when Corbin Railway Services purchased Progress predecessor Steel Processing Services, rising through the company […]
Most users of Milwaukee’s Oak Leaf Trail running from the Lake Michigan shoreline in downtown Milwaukee northwest through the city are aware, or could easily guess, they are using an old railroad right of way. Few realize this was once the route of one of the fastest long-distance passenger trains in the world — the […]
Kansas City Southern ES44AC No. 4753 leads train MVNKC (Manifest Venice-Kansas City) through Roodhouse, Ill., where the KCS line from Springfield, Ill., splits to go to Kansas City or St. Louis, on Sept. 17, 2021. Power for the Roodhouse local sits to the left. Steve Smedley WASHINGTON — Canadian National has asked federal regulators to […]
NEW YORK — Facing a significant increase in crimes on New York City public transit, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday announced plans to put more police officers on trains and station platforms, as well as moves to address issues for individuals with serious mental illness. “Our […]
LOS ANGELES — Milwaukee-based rail equipment manufacturer Talgo and LA Metro are involved in dueling lawsuits over a cancelled contract to refurbish Los Angeles subway cars, with Talgo filing a $48.8 million countersuit Friday after Metro filed suit in September. City News Service reports the Metro suit claimed Talgo had defaultd on its contract and […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Virginia Railway Express has extended its free-fare program at its six northernmost stations until the conclusion of work on DC Metrorail’s Blue Line, which is scheduled to be completed Nov. 5. The project was originally slated to be completed Oct. 22, and the fare program would have ended at that time. VRE’s […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oscar Del Cueto, president of Kansas City Southern de Mexico, has been appointed president of the Mexican Railroad Association (AMF) by unanimous vote of the association board of directors, KCS announced. It is his second term as president, following one in 2020-21. Del Cueto joined KCS de Mexico in 2006 and […]
Dynamic brakes The primary way to stop a train is using the air brake system located on the trailing freight cars behind the locomotives. A locomotive equipped with dynamic brakes can be a powerful tool for the engineer to help stop or control the speed of the train in addition to the train brakes. While […]
STONINGTON, Ill. — A 69-year-old worker at a grain elevator was killed and a Norfolk Southern train was derailed after a collision between the train and a Trackmobile on Friday. WAND-TV reports the employee of the Legacy Grain Cooperative was operating the railcar moving equipment when it crossed into the path of the oncoming NS […]
MONTREAL — Issues ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to the financial impacts of the war in Ukraine have led to the latest delay in opening the first segment of Montreal’s Réseau express métropolitain light rail system, officials of the organization building the REM said on Friday. The CBC reports Jean-Marc Arbaud, CEO of CDPQ Infra […]
