Campaigning to preserve the route of the Southwest Chief
…Garden City and Lamar, Colo. FULL SCREEN Bob Johnston A close-up of rails at Milepost 365.1 (between Dodge City and Garden City) shows how the ends are battered at the… […]
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Influential proxy advisory firm recommends that Norfolk Southern shareholders side with activist investor Ancora Holdings (updated)
…Kansas City executive John Orr as chief operating officer, were too little, too late. “We recognize the Company was dealt a difficult hand recently, as the East Palestine derailment almost… […]
Watermelon Extra
…from Perry to Adel and return six days a week, using ventilated refrigerator cars provided by Southern. The outbound loads were then routed via Southern at Adel. My first voluntary… […]
Southern Pacific locomotives remembered
…19th century and 20th century railroad equipment. It is preserved at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. Southern Pacific photo The Southern Pacific resorted to a most unique design… […]
The last grimy few: Norfolk Southern high hoods
Norfolk Southern high hoods Norfolk Southern high hoods: Two of Norfolk Southern’s remaining diesels with high short hoods, SD40-2 No. 1634 and GP38-2 No 5190, work the yard at Bellevue,… […]
Southern 4501’s first excursion
…2, 2011). Brosnan (1903-’85) was Southern’s sixth president, serving from 1962 to 1967. His “vision, nerve, and drive transformed Southern into a lean money machine,” wrote Schafer, who retired March… […]
Flooding continues in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas; water shutters another UP subdivision NEWSWIRE
…near Kansas City and from Kansas City to Jefferson City, Mo. UP says it continues to monitor the situation in Pine Bluff. UP has moved rolling stock out of its… […]
Pan Am Southern employment to fall in CSX acquisition of Pan Am Railways
…— connect with Pan Am Southern. NS had sought a neutral operator for Pan Am Southern. CSX and NS will jointly own Pan Am Southern, with NS retaining its 50%… […]
Southern Railway 4501: a 2-8-2 steam locomotive legend
…Jim Wrinn photograph Southern 4501 history Baldwin built No. 4501 as Southern Railway’s first Mikado in 1911. It was Ms Class, for Mikado wheel arrangement, superheated. The engine spent much… […]
Amtrak seeks expansion of Crescent section to Dallas-Ft. Worth
…directors chairman who is now chairman of Transportation for America, noted at the meeting that efforts to extend a section of the Crescent over the jointly-owned Kansas City Southern-Norfolk Southern… […]
Norfolk Southern warns that COVID-19 vaccine mandate poses risks to service (updated)
Norfolk Southern CEO James Squires. Norfolk Southern NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires warned today that the railroad’s train crew shortages may be exacerbated by the federal COVID-19… […]
Union Pacific: We can avoid merger-related tech problems
…have often been plagued by problematic computer cutovers that lead to service meltdowns, most recently this spring when CPKC extended its system to the legacy Kansas City Southern network in… […]
