San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (sfmta.com) iconic cable cars are up and running again. Even better, rides are free of charge in the month of August 2021! But if you want to skip the lines, watch this Trains.com slow-TV video of the ups, downs, and close calls on the notoriously steep downtown streets of San […]
ANTONITO, Colo. — The Colorado Railroad Museum’s Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 No. 20 has arrived at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad for its visit including a role in the upcoming Victorian Iron Horse Roundup. The locomotive, restored to operation in 2020,. arrived Sunday by truck from the museum in Golden, Colo. (The tender will […]
BALTIMORE, Md. – The B&O Railroad Museum has completed a cosmetic restoration of Central of New Jersey No. 1000, the world’s first commercial diesel-electric locomotive. The existing paint scheme from the 1950s was maintained, which was an olive green with the famed Statue of Liberty emblem in gold. This restoration was completed in memory of […]
An old saw in the railroad industry holds that persons in management best hide their avocational interest in the business, lest they damage their careers. Fortunately, there have been plenty of enlightened railroaders who put the lie to that assumption, among them Louis M. Newton, former Norfolk & Western and Norfolk Southern executive, frequent N&W […]
OCONEE, Ga. — An estimated 32 cars of a westbound Norfolk Southern freight train derailed early Monday morning in downtown Oconee, blocking a main street until further notice. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office reports the derailment occurred about 1 a.m., blocking Central Drive in Oconee, a community of 280 about 60 miles southwest of Augusta, […]
DENVER — Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer launched its first all-U.S. route Sunday with the first departure from Denver of the “Rockies to the Red Rocks” daytime excursion to Moab, Utah. The train utilizes leased Union Pacific SD70 locomotives pulling SilverLeaf coaches, former Canadian National cars from the 1950s which have been remanufactured with larger windows and […]
OMAHA, Neb. — The weather-related service disruptions just keep mounting for Union Pacific. Already hit hard this summer by fire-related closures, the railroad on Saturday informed customers of a series of washouts caused by torrential rains in Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas. “Our engineering teams are actively working to restore service to areas which […]
NEW YORK — A New York City Transit subway operator has been removed from his position after allegedly allowing a female friend to operate a D Train subway for several stops in Brooklyn — which came to the attention of a transit supervisor after the woman posted video on social media. The New York Post […]
OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for domestic rail, air, and marine workers, as well as many passengers, as part of a broad vaccination mandate announced Friday. All federal workers also must be vaccinated. National Public Radio reports that Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said in announcing the rule that […]
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is asking U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to mediate a dispute between his state, New York, and Connecticut over New York’s efforts to seek an additional $637 million in COVID-19 transit relief funding. NJ.com reports that New Jersey and Connecticut agreed to use Federal Transit Administration […]
MT. VERNON, N.Y. — A three-year project to overhaul and replace four bridges spanning a cut over Metro-North’s New Haven line in downtown Mount Vernon has been concluded. An Aug. 10 ribbon-cutting featuring newly appointed acting Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber and Metro-North Railroad President Catherine Rinaldi signaled the speedy completion of […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — Amtrak will resume operation of the Coast Starlight over its full Seattle-Los Angeles route, beginning with departures from both endpoints on Monday, Aug. 23, following completion of bridge work between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, Calif. However, the train’s sleeping-car inventory currently remains limited for more than a month after its […]
