Federal grants announced for several rail projects
…railroad tracks. — $14.2 million to the Kansas City Streetcar for the riverfront phase of its expansion. The Kansas City Business Journal reports the $22.2 million project will extend the… […]
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…railroad tracks. — $14.2 million to the Kansas City Streetcar for the riverfront phase of its expansion. The Kansas City Business Journal reports the $22.2 million project will extend the… […]
…the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg, South Kansas & Oklahoma, and Union County Industrial — have been named by the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association as winners of its 2025… […]
…CP’s route from Savanna, Ill., to Kansas City, Mo. Several days after the levee breach, the Mississippi crested in the Quad Cities at 22.7 feet on May 2, breaking the… […]
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific today confirmed that it has stopped humping cars at Neff Yard in Kansas City, Mo. Neff is the fourth hump UP has idled amid its… […]
…reach back as far as the earliest cave paintings. The first known example of the “modern style” comes from the ancient Greek city of Ephesus: a pictograph promoting a nearby… […]
…freight train on the Santa Fe Railway framed by the front window of an early diesel locomotive at Matfield Green, Kansas, circa 1940. The diesel, almost certainly an EMD FT… […]
…“Amtrak struggles to recover …,” Trains News Wire ,Jan. 5, 2022]. Rolling cancellations As previously reported, the Texas Eagle, Southwest Chief, City of New Orleans, Missouri River Runner, Lincoln Service,… […]
Arkansas & Oklahoma B23-7 No. 4062 leads a train to interchange cars with Union Pacific in Oklahoma City. John Leopard Although General Electric B23-7s dominate the Arkansas & Oklahoma’s roster,… […]
…Des Moines, Iowa-Chicago; Kansas City Rocket, Kansas City-Minneapolis; and the Denver Rocket, Kansas City-Denver before cutting service to Oklahoma City, Okla. Success led to later Rockets while deviating from the… […]
…the Pacific Northwest; and the former Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific from Kansas City to Cheyenne. Merger milestones marked UP’s subsequent growth. UP tried to acquire the Rock Island in… […]
…9, 2022. CPKC CEO Keith Creel has cautioned the UP-NS merger could bring a service meltdown. David Lassen Canadian Pacific Kansas City CEO Keith Creel warned last month that the… […]
…would cost $8.2 million per year to maintain. The Kansas recap says Garden City Assistant City Manager Steve Cottrell asked Amtrak to enumerate details of the additional $50 million of… […]