DENVER — The Regional Transportation District has approved an $8 million study to revive and revise plans for the commuter rail B Line, a Denver-Boulder-Longmont, Colo., route approved by voters in 2004 that had been pushed back to 2050. It was originally scheduled for completion by 2014. The RTD board also approved a formal response […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Federal Railroad Administration has halted work on a long-proposed new passenger station for Ann Arbor, citing high cost and unacceptable design features. MLive, the Ann Arbor News website, reports a letter from Jamie Rennert, director of the FRA’s Office of Infrastructure Development, told the city the agency would discontinue work […]
LEBANON, Ohio — The future of a Cincinnati-area heritage railroad is in doubt because of infrastructure needs that could reach $2.5 million over the next decade. WXIX-TV reports the Lebanon, Mason & Monroe Railroad is operated by the non-profit Cincinnati Scenic Railway, using track owned by the city of Lebanon, which also provides funding, as […]
WASHINGTON — Reversing the trend for most of 2021, the latest statistics from the Association of American Railroads show U.S. rail traffic declined for the week ending Aug. 21 when compared to the comparable week in 2020. Traffic totaled 501,273 carloads and intermodal units, a 2.6% decrease from the 2020 figure. It also represented a […]
Join Trains Editor Jim Wrinn on a trip to Kansas to see former Santa Fe Pacific-type 4-6-2 No. 3415 in steaming operation at the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad in Abilene, Kansas. See pictures of more Santa Fe locomotives in a Classic Trains article. Only from Trains.com! […]
Amtrak passenger trains you can ride Amtrak offers 14 passenger trains in each direction serving end points that allow for overnight travel, most of them operating daily but some on a triweekly basis. In the east, the Lake Shore Limited offers nightly service between New York and Chicago, with a separate section serving the Boston-Chicago […]
WASHINGTON – A subsidiary of New York short line Finger Lakes Railway next month will become the operator of the 58.68-mile Rockland Branch in Maine, taking over the lease of the state-owned line from Central Maine & Quebec. Midcoast Rail Service will lease the trackage from CMQ, which became part of Canadian Pacific in June […]
In every issue News p. 4 A matter of trust: Canadian National wins bidding war for Kansas City Southern Brian Solomon p. 8 Crossover conundrum: The constraints of infrastructure costs Bill Stephens p. 9 The intermodal no man’s land: Can railroads ever tap the potential of watershed traffic? Preservation p. 46 So you want to […]
The Union Pacific Big Boy Mississippi River crossing is one for the history books. So far as Trains editors know, this is Union Pacific Big Boy 4014’s first foray to the “Big Easy,” New Orleans! Join Trains contributor Steve Smedley for this portion of Big Boy’s 2021 tour through Texas and the Mid-South with […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A former Atlantic Coast Line locomotive which has long been displayed in Jacksonville — most recently outside the city’s convention center, a former railroad station — has begun its journey back to operating status. The Florida Times-Union reports work on Monday and Tuesday removed the locomotive from outside the Prime F. Osborn […]
SEATTLE— BNSF Railway is not subject to local zoning laws in its plan to add a second track along part of its main line through Washington’s Columbia Gorge, a U.S. appeals court has ruled. The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court judgment that federal law — specifically, the Interstate […]
CHICAGO — A murder suspect who had just arrived on the California Zephyr was shot and killed at Chicago Union Station on Tuesday evening after opening fire on Amtrak police on a station platform. The Chicago Sun-Times reports Amtrak police were waiting on the platform when the train arrived, having been informed by California authorities […]
