Rapid City Pierre and Eastern Railroad profile
Rapid City Pierre and Eastern Railroad summary The Rapid City Pierre and Eastern Railroad (RCPE) is a regional railroad that operates across South Dakota. It’s owned by Genesee and Wyoming… […]
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Twelve rail-related projects in California among those to receive federal grants
…rail transit purposes. (RAISE grant.) — City of Hanford: $15.5 million for corridor improvements in a 0.8-mile segment of downtown Harford between the city’s Amtrak station and Tenth Avenue. The… […]
BNSF and J.B. Hunt work on ways to improve service, convert loads off highway
…to.” This year, BNSF will break open the last major single-track bottleneck on the Southern Transcon by adding 25 miles of second main on the Emporia Subdivision in Kansas, making… […]
A scary tale of two train wrecks
…time, the City of San Francisco could easily be labeled the most luxurious streamlined passenger train in the West, if not the entire country. The Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and… […]
CPKC says Union Pacific aims to stifle competition for Gulf Coast grain
A Kansas City Southern grain train rolls south through Dequincy, La., in 2008. Chris Guss WASHINGTON — Union Pacific’s contention that Kansas City Southern can’t haul grain from the Upper… […]
HO scale Kansas City Terminal
Name: Kansas City Terminal Ry. Layout owner: Jim Senese Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 11 x 21 plus 11 x 40 Prototypes: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Kansas City Southern; Kansas… […]
Norfolk Southern to auction high-hood locomotives, passenger cars NEWSWIRE
…for not only their high-hood design, but also their Southern Railway-affiliated sub-lettering. Certain locomotives are stenciled for the Central of Georgia (CG), Alabama Great Southern Railroad (AGS), Georgia Southern &… […]
FRA slows Class I railroad implementation of improved track and train inspections
…geometry defect rate by 63% on the Southern Transcon between Los Angeles and Chicago. A Norfolk Southern inspection test program reduced the track defect rate nearly fivefold on its Blue… […]
Vermont short line, transportation agency say CSX-Pan Am merger would harm competition
WASHINGTON – One of the complicating factors in CSX Transportation’s proposed acquisition of Pan Am Railways — the Pan Am Southern joint venture with Norfolk Southern — is proving to… […]
How to own and maintain a caboose
Privately owned caboose Southern Railway caboose X702 was still active and in service at Goldsboro, N.C., in August 1980. Photo courtesy of Matt Bumgarner Welcome to the world of privately… […]
NS donates ‘Big John’ hopper car to Tennessee museum NEWSWIRE
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Norfolk Southern has donated former Southern Railway “Big John” covered hopper car No. 8744 to the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum. The car has a connection to… […]
CSX says it will iron out wrinkles related to Pan Am acquisition
…should do it this way.” The Pan Am Southern — which provides Norfolk Southern with access to the Boston area — is a joint venture between Pan Am Railways and… […]
