An electric multiple-unit trainset for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro-North Railroad is hardly an everyday sight in suburban Chicago. This train of four Metro-North M8 railcars passed through Elmhurst, Ill., on the Union Pacific last Friday. The cars, en route to the New York area from Kawasaki Rail Car’s plant in Lincoln., Neb., are part […]
Still more Monday morning rail news: New York to connect High Line to Moynihan Train Hall New York’s High Line, the former elevated rail line turned into a hugely popular Lower West Side park, will be expanded with a 1,200-foot elevated walkway connecting the 1.45-mile linear park with the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall adjacent […]
By: Will Adams WINONA, Miss. — Production crews from Kapital Entertainment of Los Angeles are working this week in north Mississippi to recreate an Illinois Central passenger train that will play a key role in “Women of the Movement,” an ABC-TV series expected to air later this year. The circa-1950 passenger train consists of three […]
Monday midday rail news: Schultz joins STB, giving board a full five members Michelle Schultz has been sworn in as the newest member of the Surface Transportation Board, giving the agency overseeing rail regulation a full five members for the first time since a law expanding its membership passed in 2015. Schultz has spent the […]
Still more Monday morning rail news: Registration deadline approaches for MARS conference, featuring CP, BNSF CEOs The registration deadline is approaching for the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers winter meeting, to be held online on Jan. 20. The $25 registration fee includes 2021 membership dues; those who register before Jan. 15 will be able to […]
With several automakers temporarily halting or slowing production of some car models amid a global shortage of semiconductors, it’s only a matter of time before railroads feel the impact in their finished vehicle traffic. Several auto assembly plants across North America are affected by the shortage of computer chips that has been caused, in part, […]
Sunday rail news: No one hurt as UP locomotive explodes in Utah’s Echo Canyon No injuries were reported after North Summit, Utah, firefighters were called to a reported explosion of a Union Pacific locomotive in Echo Canyon early Saturday morning. The North Summit Fire District said in a Twitter post that the incident was reported about 3 […]
Saturday morning rail news: NS to lay off 17 at Juniata Locomotive Shop Norfolk Southern will furlough 17 mechanical workers at its Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona, Pa., the Altoona Mirror reports. Ten carmen, six boilermakers, and one laborer will be laid off, the newspaper reports, citing information from a shop employee. A report last […]
CHICAGO – The Chicago interchange dispute between Canadian National and Canadian Pacific is heading to a new venue: Federal court. CN, through its Wisconsin Central subsidiary, is seeking to have the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a Surface Transportation Board declaratory order. The STB’s order, issued in October, said that CN could […]
OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific will write off half the value of the aborted hump yard it was building in Hearne, Texas, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday morning. UP in April 2019 stopped construction of the $550 million Brazos Yard, which the railroad had described as the largest single capital investment […]
Additional Friday morning rail news: NTSB releases initial report on October CSX employee death at Richmond’s Acca Yard A CSX employee killed in an October accident in Richmond, Va., died when the train he was operating by remote control struck three standing cars on an adjacent track, according to a preliminary report from the National […]
More Friday morning rail news: Amtrak test trains to run on Point Defiance Bypass Jan. 16-17 Amtrak will begin running test trains on Jan. 16-17 in preparation for the start of service on Washington state’s Point Defiance Bypass, idle for more than three years after a fatal derailment of the first Amtrak train to use […]
