Conrail history remembered
…Chessie System and Penn Central’s lines along the DelMarVa Peninsula to the Southern Railway. A new railroad, Consolidated Rail Corporation, would acquire the rest. Neither Chessie nor Southern could reach… […]
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The Trains Interview: Outgoing Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires
Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires, left, chats with Kimberly Kirtz, assistant terminal superintendent at Brosnan Yard in Macon, Ga., in 2017. Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires retired over… […]
Norfolk Southern reports some headway against congestion, crew hiring
A crew member climbs onto a Norfolk Southern locomotive at Canadian Pacific’s Bensenville Yard in August 2019. NS president Alan Shaw says in a letter to the Surface Transportation Board… […]
New model trains for the week of July 5, 2018
…Electro-Motive Division Phase II GP9 with low short hood. Burlington Northern, Canadian Pacific, Chicago & North Western, Milwaukee Road, Norfolk Southern, and Wisconsin & Southern. Four road numbers per scheme… […]
How to visit Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
Southern Railway GP30 No. 2594 switches coaches in the yard at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Photo by Trains: Jim Wrinn Southern Railway 2-8-0 No. 630 leads a passenger train into… […]
Union Pacific asks federal court to resolve CPKC trackage rights dispute
…haulage and trackage rights term sheet between UP and Kansas City Southern permits KCS to move grain to Houston and Galveston for grain traffic interchanged at Kansas City. The April… […]
Cleveland calls on railroads to fix bridges needing ‘critical repairs’
Norfolk Southern intermodal Chicago-Rutherford, Pa., intermodal train 26E crosses the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland on April 16, 2016. The city of Cleveland has presented railroads with a list of bridges… […]
Start-up Tennessee short line set to offer hometown service NEWSWIRE
Union City, Tenn. Google Maps UNION CITY, Tenn. – Twenty-six years after Brent Lee left Union City to go railroading, he is coming home to run his own short line…. […]
‘City of New Orleans’ returns to its namesake city
…at Memphis, Tenn., and later at Jackson, Miss., Amtrak’s City of New Orleans will finally make its grand entrance to the Crescent City one month after Hurricane Ida slammed into… […]
Iowa railroad museum shut down by flood damage
Flood waters fill the roundhouse of the Sioux City Railroad Museum on Monday, June 24, 2024. Sioux City Railroad Museum SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The Big Sioux River, which took… […]
Norfolk Southern C39-8E diesel locomotive is one of only two remaining
…short-hood forward. Conrail owned 22 units, with 13 of those going to Norfolk Southern and nine going to CSX Transportation after the Conrail break-up in 1999. Norfolk Southern also had… […]
BNSF, UP struggle to meet surging intermodal demand in Southern California
BNSF Railway is sending more locomotives, intermodal equipment, and crews to its terminals in Southern California to handle surging domestic intermodal volume. A BNSF baretable train approaches Tehachapi Loop in… […]
