MISSOULA, Mont. – Fan-favorite regional railroad Montana Rail Link has given us another reason to admire it. The railroad recently repainted EMD SD70ACe No. 4407 in a red, white, and blue paint scheme honoring U.S. military veterans. The locomotive is one of 29 such units on the railroad’s roster. Watch Trains News Wire for more […]
CHICAGO — Metra will introduce its first bike car — a coach with room for 16 bicycles, instead of the usual five — on Saturday on the Milwaukee District North Line, and will relax its bicycle policy to allow bikes on all trains across its 11 lines as of Monday, Nov. 9. There will still […]
Friday morning rail news from the Surface Transportation Board: Del Mar’s latest filing asks STB to disregard documents from North County Transportation District The City of Del Mar, Calif., has asked the Surface Transportation Board to disregard the North County Transportation District’s latest filing in the transit agency’s request for a ruling on its maintenance […]
Friday morning rail news: Mass Coastal shut down as sinkhole swallows 300 feet of track Mass Coastal Railroad service to Cape Cod has been interrupted after some 300 feet of rail line was swallowed up by a sinkhole last week. The Cape Cod Times reports the sinkhole was reported on Oct. 27, allowing the railroad to stop […]
Still more Friday morning rail news: Report: New Jersey congressman to seek chair of railroad subcommittee A report says a New Jersey congressman has indicated his desire to become chair of the House Transportation Committee’s Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. The website New Jersey Globe reports that Donald M. Payne Jr. (D-Newark), elected in 2012 […]
OSHAWA, Ontario – In a move that will benefit Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, General Motors Canada announced on Thursday that it planned to reopen its assembly plant in Oshawa. The plant, which stopped building pickup trucks in December, will reopen in January 2022, GM said in announcing a tentative deal with Unifor, which represents […]
NORFOLK, Va. – Norfolk Southern has reduced its number of operating divisions to six from nine, continuing an industry trend toward larger divisional territories. The move was effective Nov. 1, Chief Operating Officer Cindy Sanborn wrote in a memo to employees. The Southern Region, which previously included the Alabama, Georgia, and Piedmont divisions, is now […]
OSHAWA, Ontario – In a move that will benefit Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, General Motors Canada announced on Thursday that it planned to reopen its assembly plant in Oshawa. The plant, which stopped building pickup trucks in December, will reopen in January 2022, GM said in announcing a tentative deal with Unifor, which represents […]
MISSOULA, Mont. – Fan-favorite regional railroad Montana Rail Link has given us another reason to admire it. The railroad recently repainted EMD SD70ACe No. 4407 in a red, white, and blue paint scheme honoring U.S. military veterans. The locomotive is one of 29 such units on the railroad’s roster. Watch Trains News Wire for more […]
Union Pacific Big Boy The world’s largest steam locomotive returns to the rails. Big Boy 4014 News Big Boy 4014 Videos Shop Big Boy 4014 Big Boy Returns! One of the biggest and most powerful steam locomotives in history has returned to life: Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014. Big Boy weighs in at 600 tons, […]
More Thursday morning rail news: Truckload of mattresses burns after being hit by train in Georgia No injuries were reported when a stalled tractor-trailer rig caught fire after being struck by a Norfolk Southern train in Rex, Ga., on Wednesday afternoon, snarling traffic in the community a dozen miles southeast of Atlanta. WXIA-TV reports the truck was […]
More Thursday morning rail news: Transportation Safety Board cites sudden track failure in CN derailment A sudden track failure, likely reflecting wide-gauge conditions which developed quickly because of unit train traffic, is the likely cause of the January 2020 derailment of a Canadian National train en route to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The Transportation Safety […]
