CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 No. 2816 is making a one-time-only return to steam to pull a “virtual” edition of Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train, returning to operation after nearly a decade of dormancy. The locomotive will pull the train later this month in the yard at Calgary and will not operate on the main line. […]
MONTICELLO, Ill. — One of the only two RS1325s built by Electro-Motive Division, Illinois & Midland No. 31, has been acquired by the Monticello Railway Museum. The museum purchased the diesel from Larry’s Truck and Electric, the Ohio firm that rebuilds, resells, leases, and scraps locomotives. The museum announced the addition of two locomotives to […]
CHICAGO — Metra’s board of directors on Friday approved a $700 operating budget for 2021, as well as a $386.8 million capital budget, and also approved a plan to improve transit service to Chicago’s South Side that will see reduced fares on two Metra Lines. The operating budget does not call for fare increases or […]
Wabtec’s FLXDrive battery-electric locomotive is reportedly set to leave the company’s Erie, Pa., locomotive plant to begin its trip to California, where the unit is scheduled to begin testing on the BNSF Railway. The locomotive was spotted outside the plant today, accompanied by two new BNSF diesels. Since its announcement in September 2019, plans have […]
Friday midday rail news: Transit district’s report sets goals for expanded commuter, passenger, freight service in San Diego Coaster commuter train and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner service would be extended southward from their current endpoint at San Diego’s Santa Fe Depot, and more slots would be created for freight trains, under the San Diego Pathing Study […]
Friday morning rail news: As deadline nears, NJ Transit says it has 80% of PTC work done NJ Transit has about 80% of its positive train control implementation process complete with seven weeks to go to meet the Dec. 31 deadline, and officials from the transit agency and its primary contractor said again at a […]
More Friday morning rail news: Montreal REM plans online unveiling of new equipment Montreal’s Réseau express métropolitain light rail project will hold a virtual unveiling of its first trainsets on Monday, Nov. 16. The event beginning at 9:15 a.m. EST will be held on the REM Facebook page. The first of the 212 Alstom trainsets […]
Friday afternoon rail news: CP announces artists for ‘Holiday Train at Home’ concert Canadian Pacific has announced that Serena Ryder and The Trews will be the headline performers for the “Holiday Train at Home” online fundraising concert, to be held Dec. 12 and streamed online at CP’s Facebook page. JoJo Mason, Logan Staats, and Kelly […]
Third in a series OAKLAND, Calif. — The Los Angeles-Seattle Coast Starlight was a 1971 Amtrak concoction cobbling together three trains: Southern Pacific’s Coast Daylight and overnight Cascade, even though the SP trains hadn’t connected at the time, and the unnamed Portland, Ore.-Seattle Burlington Northern or Union Pacific “pool trains.” Originally, and ambitiously, the south […]
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Pacific Harbor Line, which serves the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, will become the first U.S. railroad to take delivery of Progress Rail’s EMD Joule battery-electric locomotive. The six-axle, zero-emission locomotive will develop 3,200 hp and will be tested in all forms of service on PHL as part of […]
Thursday morning rail transit news: SunRail shut down because of tropical storm Orlando-area commuter railroad SunRail will suspend operations today in preparation for the arrival of Tropical Storm Eta, which is expected to make landfall today along Florida’s west coast after meadering around the Gulf of Mexico for several days. Watch the SunRail website or […]
More Thursday morning rail news: Concert helps NC&StL No. 576 project reach matching-funds goal The “Rhythm of the Rails” online concert featuring Marty Stuart, Harry Stinson, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Cristina Vale has been viewed more than 50,000 times and has put the fundraising effort for Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis No. 576 over […]
