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CSX 911 and 1776 will add to the fire truck festival at the N.C. Transportation Museum Saturday. Chris Anderson SPENCER, N.C. — Commemorative locomotives from CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway are set to meet for the first time at an event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer this weekend. The museum says […]
Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Florida East Coast have launched interline domestic intermodal service connecting California, Dallas, and Chicago with central Florida. The service, which launched today, uses the FEC terminal in Titusville, Fla., about 40 miles east of Orlando, Fla. UP handles both private and EMP containers between its terminals in […]
SNOW HILL, Md. — The Maryland & Delaware Railroad expects to resume freight service between Frankford, Del. and Snow Hill by the end of June, as soon as final repairs are completed. Most of the 24-mile line has been dormant for seven years. Local newspapers and television report the railroad has reached an agreement with […]
BOSTON — The operator of a Red Line subway train that derailed last week has been cleared of responsibility for the accident which injured two passengers, the head of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said Friday. General Manager Steve Poftak said the investigation was continuing, WBUR radio reported. Delays from the Tuesday derailment of the […]
Strasburg’s Craig Lefever SRR STRASBURG, Pa. — Craig Lefever, who became Strasburg Rail Road’s president last December, has died, the railroad said in a letter distributed Monday. He was 52. Lefever succeeded Linn Moedinger, who retired from Strasburg Rail Road on Dec. 21, 2018. Lefever, who was hired by Strasburg Rail Road Co. in 1987, […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe diesel locomotive. Union Pacific (“Powered by our people” scheme). One road number. Light-emitting-diode headlights and front and rear ditch lights, removable cab roof secured with magnets, and commemorative box. Direct-current model with 21-pin NEM plug for Digital Command Control decoder, $249.98; with dual-mode SoundTraxx Tsunami2 sound decoder, $339.98. December […]
ST. LOUIS — Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner has resumed full service between St. Louis and Kansas City, just two days after a partial resumption of service. Both daily round trips between the two cities were restored on Saturday, more than three weeks after the rail service was suspended because of additional freight traffic on the […]
FULTS, Ill. — A Union Pacific train hit a tractor at a grade crossing in a rural area about 40 miles south of St. Louis on Friday evening, killing the driver of the tractor and derailing 30 cars of the train. The Republic-Times newspaper reports that Monroe County coroner identified the victim as 23-year-old Jonah […]
Workers on the LA Metro Foothill Gold Line Extension. LA Metro via SmugMug This article is the third of five on transit in the U.S. and North America. Read parts One, Two, Four, and Five online. As urban areas large and small continue to attract jobs, residents, workers, and visitors, their transportation systems demand ever […]
CHICAGO — Two unrelated incidents made for a bumpy evening commute Thursday for riders on Metra’s BNSF line. First, trains were stopped briefly after a truck struck a bridge near Western Avenue about 3:30 p.m. Trains were moving again by 4 p.m. with residual delays of 20 to 25 minute, WMAQ-TV reported. Later, a locomotive […]
Cumbres & Toltec 2-8-2 No. 463 pushes rotary OY toward Cumbres Pass Thursday. Charlest Weston CHAMA, N.M. – The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s Denver & Rio Grande Western 1923 rotary snow plow OY made its way to restoration Thursday with a trip across the 64-mile narrow gauge railroad from Chama, N.M., to Antonito, Colo. […]
CASS, W.Va. – The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad will not open its Durbin to Cass connection until after the fall season. Track crews have maintained, and at times, operated ahead of, a schedule on its track rehabilitation effort, however a 40-foot bridge is in need of replacement, and that project is being overseen by […]
