OKEMOS, Mich. — RSI Logistics Inc. and R.J. Corman Railroad Co. have announced a partnership involving marketing and operation of R.J. Corman Transload Connect sites. RSI Logistics will promote the Transload Connect facilities as part of a marketing alliance, and will be the third-party operator at several locations in the eastern and midwestern U.S. The […]
WASHINGTON — Peter DeFazio, the Oregon Democrat who chairs the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has announced he will retire after serving 18 terms in Congress. Oregon Public Radio notes the 74-year-old DeFazio’s committee chairmanship allowed him to play a major role in shaping the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed last month. DeFazio’s announcement […]
NASHVILLE — Norfolk Southern is doing all it can to solve its crew shortage problem and restore service to normal levels, executives said today. NS has been hit hard by the double whammy of higher-than-expected attrition among its current train and engine crews and difficulty hiring conductor trainees in an extremely tight job market. The […]
Watch trains running on Marshall Sommer’s HO scale Rhode Haven model railroad, which is featured in the January 2022 issue of Model Railroader magazine. […]
Watch trains running on Marshall Sommer’s HO scale Rhode Haven model railroad, which is featured in the January 2022 issue of Model Railroader magazine. […]
Southern Railway 4501. You could write a book about this locomotive, and indeed one has been done. If it were a fable, it would be the story of a commoner becoming royalty. This is a brief look at a once-ordinary, freight-hauling 2-8-2 made into a legendary excursion locomotive. Southern 4501 history Baldwin built No. 4501 […]
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a safety alert, asking commuter rail and rail transit systems to check wheelsets for possible out-of-gage situations. Safety Alert 083, issued Wednesday, results from an October derailment on the DC Metrorail system, which revealed problems in which some wheels moved outward from their mounted position on […]
A California-inspired garden railroad is what you can see in our Morning Glow Railroad. It was developed after watching numerous videos, reading many Garden Railways magazines, then determining the type of garden railroad I wanted to construct. Its theme is based on the type of natural setting that I enjoyed the most, namely a vacation […]
NASHVILLE — Canadian National expects to have its severed British Columbia main line back in service by the weekend, which will help ease a logjam of traffic bound to and from Vancouver, Canada’s busiest port. Heavy rains lashed southern British Columbia last month, causing landslides, flooding, and major washouts in the directional running zone where […]
NASHVILLE — Union Pacific has trimmed its volume, productivity, and operating-ratio expectations for the year amid sluggish operations and a sharp decline in international intermodal traffic due to global supply chain problems. UP now says it will see a 4% volume gain this year, down from the previous forecast of 5% growth; productivity gains will total […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A lawsuit seeking to halt California’s high speed rail project has again been turned down in a state court, with the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Sacramento ruling the project’s segmented building plan did not violate the state constitution. The Los Angeles Times, which describes the case as the last pending […]
OTTAWA, Ontario — VIA Rail Canada has provided the first detailed look at its new equipment for corridor service, unveiling the first full trainset at the Ottawa station. A total of 32 Siemens-built trainsets will serve the Quebec City-Windsor, Ont., corridor. Testing of the first trainset will begin this month, with the first of the […]
