Iowa Interstate’s Chinese-built 2-10-2 No. 6988 is back in service again in 2019. After a lull that ended in 2018, the QJ-type is seeing service on the former Rock Island main line in Illinois and Iowa. Watch it pull excursions with a train of P70 coaches, and freight, too! […]
Stuart tanks and crated loads on flatcars tell of the herculean effort of American industries, including railroads, to bring victory in World War II. Classic Trains collection […]
With white extra flags flying, Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-2 No. 611 leads a sugar beet extra out of Hopkins, Minn., in 1946. The Mikado was built by Schenectady in 1918. Classic Trains collection […]
Homemade T-3 4-8-2 Mountains Nos. 5592 and 5558 lead a westbound Baltimore & Ohio freight past J Tower at the west end of the Willard, Ohio, yard. Forty such locomotives were rebuilt in 1942-1948 at the road’s Mount Clare Shops in Baltimore from older 4-6-2s and 2-8-2s. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Fairbanks-Morse C-Liners, Nos. 4802 and 4801, shown at Milwaukee, could reach speeds of 110 mph. However, these passenger locomotives proved to be unreliable. Norton D. Clark photo […]
Two of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio’s four F7As approach UD Tower in Joliet, Ill., in fall 1951 with a southbound freight for Bloomington. Wallace W. Abbey photo […]
PERU, Ill. — The City of Peru and OmniTrax have received a $6.08 million federal grant to upgrade right of way on the Illinois Railway between Peru and Zearing, Ill. The project is one of the 45 to receive Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement grants announced last week. [See “FRA awards $326 million in […]
The joint Milwaukee Road / Soo Line depot at Pembine, Wis., burned Monday. Alexander D. Mitchell IV PEMBINE, Wis. — A fire, believed to be arson, destroyed the joint Milwaukee Road/Soo Line depot at Pembine, Wis., Monday morning. The fire, reported at 10:43 a.m., according to local media sources, burned the structure to the foundation, […]
ST. LOUIS — Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner has resumed full service between St. Louis and Kansas City, just two days after a partial resumption of service. Both daily round trips between the two cities were restored on Saturday, more than three weeks after the rail service was suspended because of additional freight traffic on the […]
FULTS, Ill. — A Union Pacific train hit a tractor at a grade crossing in a rural area about 40 miles south of St. Louis on Friday evening, killing the driver of the tractor and derailing 30 cars of the train. The Republic-Times newspaper reports that Monroe County coroner identified the victim as 23-year-old Jonah […]
CHICAGO — Two unrelated incidents made for a bumpy evening commute Thursday for riders on Metra’s BNSF line. First, trains were stopped briefly after a truck struck a bridge near Western Avenue about 3:30 p.m. Trains were moving again by 4 p.m. with residual delays of 20 to 25 minute, WMAQ-TV reported. Later, a locomotive […]
A Metra BNSF train pulls into the Aurora station from the adjacent yard prior to a departure for Chicago on May 25, 2019. Communities in two counties want to see the BNSF route extended to serve them, but any such expansion is unlikely in the near future. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — Representatives from two […]
