…agreement with Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s former Central Maine & Quebec via Northern Maine Junction. A pair of former Pan Am C40-8s, which were originally CSX units, delivered 47 cars… […]
Pan Am Southern train EDBF departs East Deerfield, Mass., for Bellows Falls, Vt., on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 — the final day of Pan Am Southern operations. Scott A. Hartley… […]
Kato USA N scale Amtrak intercity set Just in time for the 40th anniversary of America’s national passenger rail service, Kato USA is offering a sharp-looking, smooth-running Amtrak intercity express… […]
…53, City of Miami — Chicago-Miami — Roomette, deadhead 52, City of Miami — Jacksonville-Chicago — Roomette 1, 2, City of New Orleans — Chicago-New Orleans* — Coach 6, Panama… […]
…trip from Iowa City to Columbus, Ohio, to play Ohio State usually started in Iowa City with the 9:15 a.m. departure of Rock Island’s Rocket to Chicago. The normal operation,… […]
…way from Pittsburgh to San Diego, only to be followed up by nearly an hour and forty-minute drive to reach Plaster City off Interstate 8,” he says. Plaster City is… […]
…provides daily rail service from New York City to Pennsylvania’s capital city of Harrisburg. The short three-and-half-hour trip begins at New York’s iconic Penn Station in the midtown-Manhattan beneath Madison… […]
…that Amtrak is not required to support capacity improvements. When Amtrak was granted the right of preference in 1973, freight railroads had excess capacity. But the Staggers Act of 1980,… […]
…The Fostoria Glass Co., founded in the city in 1887, even supplied glassware to railroads for their dining cars! The city is also known for the first installation of CTC… […]
…providing the direct route from Canada to Kansas City and onward toward Texas and Mexico. La Crescent is across the river from La Crosse, and trackage through the town is… […]
…of service in the late 20th century. Streetcars carrying freight In the southern German city of Karlsruhe, the “tram-train” streetcar system is looking to expand into freight services. This operation… […]
…shippers and railroaders with several questions. Among them: How can railroads grow or even maintain existing traffic with less capacity? What about surge capacity? How can railroads dodge their common-carrier… […]
