Pictured with the engine, left to right, are fireman Dean Gordon, mechanic Phil Reader, and engineer Willie Maine. Chip Sherman SILVER PLUME, Colo. — Georgetown Loop Railroad No. 12, a 1928 Baldwin 2-6-2, ran its last day in Colorado on August 1. The engine will be shipped later in the month to Midwest Central Railroad at […]
FORT EUSTIS, Va. – On July 25, the U.S. Army Transportation Corps Museum will dedicate restored Alco RSD1 No. 8011, and the museum’s new Rail Pavilion. The Alco is one of 57 units sent to Iran during World War II for the Military Railway Service Corps operated Iranian State Railway. This event will be dedicated […]
ALTOONA, Pa. – On Saturday June 16, at 12:13 p.m., Norfolk Southern’s Alto tower in downtown Altoona was vacant for the first time in 97 years, as signal crews shifted authority from the Alto control operator to a Norfolk Southern train dispatcher. Maintenance crews also removed the classic Pennsylvania Railroad signal bridges from both ends […]
SOUDERTON, Pa. — Two men arrested for stealing tie plates from the Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad told police they didn’t know they were breaking the law. Each man faces 115 counts of theft and receiving stolen property, after they admitted to police they took the tie plates from the tracks. A citizen observed the men loading […]
MONCTON, New Brunswick – Industrial Rail Services has filed two lawsuits against VIA Rail Canada, alleging the company breached a contract to rebuild Renaissance cars and acted in bad faith by terminating the contract, CBC News reports. VIA terminated the uncompleted portion of a contract with Industrial Rail to rebuild 98 cars on April 11. […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway has launched an interactive map that showcases various events and activities along its transcontinental rail system. The map uses various markers to highlight events such as community projects, news updates, photos, and videos along with historical information. Users have the ability to filter the data and zoom into a […]
GEORGETOWN, Texas — As if the mechanical problems Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 suffered last week weren’t enough, the railroad’s steam program was further embarrassed Friday when a boxcar that carries supplies for steam locomotives was damaged in an accident on the Georgetown Railroad. The boxcar collided with a gondola, punching in the end of […]
DUNMORE, Pa. – The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society’s ex-Delaware, Lackawanna & Western diner 469 is on its way over Norfolk Southern and Delaware-Lackawanna from Collierville, Tenn. to Scranton, Penn. The Budd Co. built the car in 1949 for the DL&W’s premier train, the Phoebe Snow. Renumbered 769 after the merger forming the Erie […]
WASHINGTON – The Federal Railroad Administration today published a final rule updating its locomotive safety standards. The agency says the rule “incorporates existing industry and engineering best practices related to locomotives and to the electronics in them.” Among the changes are for new and remanufactured locomotives to be equipped with a lock to prevent unauthorized intrusions. […]
MIAMI – Even if 40 miles of new track are not built by 2014, a new privately-run passenger service in Florida may run anyway, the head of passenger rail development for Florida East Coast Industries tells Trains News Wire. Eugene Skoropowski, who was named senior vice president of passenger rail development earlier this month, said […]
VICTORIA, B.C. — Contract crews this week removed a short but important stretch of track that had enabled VIA Rail Canada’s Malahat to serve downtown Victoria directly. The service is currently shut down, its future uncertain. If it does return, the train will have to call at a station on the city’s west side where […]
NORFOLK, Va. — To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Norfolk & Western/Southern merger in 1982, Norfolk Southern plans to honor many of the railroads that make up the present day NS system. As Union Pacific did a half-decade ago, NS plans to create a fleet of heritage locomotives, though NS’s plans are bigger: 18 […]
