An eastbound Norfolk Southern coal train meets a westbound merchandise train at Cassandra, Pa., in April 2022. Bill Stephens Trains sat down with Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw and new… […]
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Pan Am Southern train EDPL departs Springfield, Mass., on Amtrak’s Springfield Line, en route to Plainville, Conn., in September 2019. Pan Am Southern, a joint venture of Pan Am Railways… […]
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…April 1983. The railroad was a pioneer in doublestack container service with American Presidential Lines and Sealand bringing a new look to Southern Pacific freight trains. Bob MacDonald photo Southern… […]
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…Burlington & Quincy (Colorado & Southern reporting marks); Great Northern (Great Northern Ry. herald on tender); Maine Central (red and yellow herald); Southern Pacific (Daylight scheme); Union Pacific; and Western… […]
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A Norfolk Southern train pauses for a crew change. Norfolk Southern INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen is now backing activist investor Ancora Holdings and its… […]
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…trip on a daytime schedule between Fort Worth or Oklahoma City and Kansas City is not being studied. That would likely involve analyzing a passenger train’s impact on BNSF freight… […]
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…museum. The locomotive led excursion trains both at the museum and for the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway’s Steam Excursion Program. It was retired in 1998, only to be restored… […]
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…about an hour and a half shy of Kansas City. Within moments, police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances showed up. Despite the late hour and the smallness of Carrollton, a… […]
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…Union Station A BNSF intermodal train approaches Kansas City Union Station on May 8, 2022. David Lassen An architectural and historical landmark, Kansas City’s Union Station stands tall along the… […]
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…4000-cubic-foot-capacity coal gondola by North American Railcar Corp., distributed by Pacific Western Rail Systems. Also available in N scale. Canadian 4,000-cubic-foot-capacity coal gondola. N scale samples shown. BC Rail (three… […]
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…city by the Soo Line in 1960. Under terms of a contract with the city reached in 2015, the locomotive was sold to the museum for $2, but with the… […]
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…it operates through some of the city’s more historic urban neighborhoods. As the city looks ahead, and continues to grow, these streetcars could one day be replaced by newer, larger-capacity… […]
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