A CTRail Shore Line East commuter train arrives at the State Street station in New Haven, Conn., as a Hartford Line train waits in the background for its turn to approach the platform. Connecticut’s Department of Transportation is forming an advisory panel of riders to aid in design of new cars for the commuter lines. […]
BRUNSWICK, Mo. — Debris from heavy rains took out a Norfolk Southern bridge over the Grand River on Tuesday, suspending service about 90 miles east of Kansas City, Mo. The stricken bridge was on the Kansas City district between Kansas City, Mo., and Moberly, Mo. NS is diverting traffic to other railroads and the incident […]
CSX 4317, a former Reading Co. GP39-2 shown at right, works at Yeoman Yard in Tampa, Fla., in March 2017. It now resides at the Reading museum in Hamburg, Pa. Scott A. Hartley HAMBURG, Pa. – A former Reading GP-39-2, one of the last new locomotives delivered to that railroad just months before the Conrail […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Headwaters Junction, the planned hub for railroad history, culture, and Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765, says it will host and operate an Indiana interurban car in the future. In a Tuesday news release, Headwaters Junction and Hoosier Heartland Trolley Co. announced their intention to operate interurban car No. 429 on […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Although 2019 is shaping up as a disappointing year for railroad volume, it’s been a downright disastrous year in trucking, Cowen & Co. transportation analyst Jason Seidl told a rail shipper conference on Wednesday. “Things are bad,” Seidl says. More trucking companies filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2019 than […]
A CSX Transportation intermodal train hits the diamond at Blue Island, Ill., on Sept. 16, 2019. CSX, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific face a series of lawsuits from shippers over fuel surcharges the railroads instituted beginning in 2003. TRAINS: David Lassen Shippers across the country filed suit against the four largest U.S. railroads on […]
NORTH CREEK, N.Y. — As negotiations to operate passenger trains on tracks from Saratoga to North Creek, N.Y., continue, the future of tracks running north from North Creek to Tahawus got cloudier this week when the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation asked the Surface Transportation Board to issue a Certificate of Interim Trail […]
A Tri-Rail train parallels Interstate 95 as it heads south from West Palm Beach toward Miami. The commuter railroad will increase fares in 2020. TRAINS: David Lassen POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — The governing body overseeing South Florida’s Tri-Rail commuter service has voted to increase fares as of Jan. 1, 2020, with some fares increasing by […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation has named Kevin Boone as its full-time chief financial officer and appointed Jamie Boychuk as executive vice president of operations in moves announced this afternoon (Wednesday, Oct. 2). Ed Harris, who had held the operations position, will serve as executive vice president with a combination of operating and general executive […]
ERIE, Pa. — CSX Transportation’s western New York presence may shrink if plans to slim Frontier Yard near Buffalo, N.Y., progress. According to a railroad source who spoke on condition of anonymity, CSX is still finalizing its plans. Those plans include the removal of bowl track groups 2 through 5 in the main yard. These […]
CSX 3194, 1776, and 911 will be on display in Pennsylvania Oct. 12-13. CSX Transportation NORTH EAST, Pa. – The Lake Shore Railway Historical Society will host three CSX Transportation “Pride in Service” locomotives at its museum in North East later this month. The museum will open at noon on Oct. 12-13 so visitors can […]
ELMHURST, Ill. — Following a recent multi-agency event to raise child awareness of safety around railroad tracks, parents are being encouraged to share five safety tips with their children. The Sept. 27 event at the Metra station in Elmhurst, Ill., part of National Rail Safety Week, involved Union Pacific, Metra, the DuPage Railroad Safety Council, […]
