Join Trains Presents video contributor Chris Wehman for a look at Norfolk Southern’s busy junction at Butler, Ind., northeast of Fort Wayne. There, the former Conrail Cleveland to Chicago main crosses the former Norfolk & Western Detroit to Fort Wayne line. You’ll see trains at all angles, including the Triple Crown RoadRailer! […]
Trains Magazine columnist Fred W. Frailey takes a look inside BNSF Railway’s busy Willow Springs intermodal yard, near Chicago. In this free download, you’ll get a peek behind the security fence to experience the rush to move priority UPS traffic into and out of the Windy City. […]
Work continues on Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis No. 576! Restoration of this fabled 4-8-4 continues in Nashville’s Centennial Park while organizers raise money to relocate the engine to a shop. A matching challenge grant through the end of 2017 will boost the project. Organizer Shane Meador explains the latest developments for “the stripe.” For […]
Work continues on Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis No. 576! Restoration of this fabled 4-8-4 continues in Nashville’s Centennial Park while organizers raise money to relocate the engine to a shop. A matching challenge grant through the end of 2017 will boost the project. Organizer Shane Meador explains the latest developments for “the stripe.” For […]
CSX Transportation’s North Baltimore Yard, near North Baltimore, Ohio. Brian Schmidt JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is preparing to scale back operations at its intermodal hub in North Baltimore, Ohio, which opened in 2011 as the $175-million centerpiece of a new intermodal strategy. The Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal was designed to support CSX’s hub-and-spoke approach […]
Take an eastbound cab ride on Pete Walton’s HO scale Great Midwestern Railroad. The layout was featured in Great Model Railroads 2018. Video by Dave Rickaby. […]
Take an eastbound cab ride on Pete Walton’s HO scale Great Midwestern Railroad. The layout was featured in Great Model Railroads 2018. Video by Dave Rickaby. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Pete Walton’s HO scale Great Midwestern RR features scenes inspired by northwestern Illinois in the 1950s. See classic steam and diesel locomotives hauling freight and passenger trains through the spectacular scenery of this 36′-6″ x 63′-0″ model railroad. […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Pete Walton’s HO scale Great Midwestern RR features scenes inspired by northwestern Illinois in the 1950s. See classic steam and diesel locomotives hauling freight and passenger trains through the spectacular scenery of this 36′-6″ x 63′-0″ model railroad. […]
In May 1995, a westbound Dakota Southern freight with a (former Long Island) Alco C420 and an SD7 rolls slowly into the setting sun, west of Chamberlain, S.D. Tom Danneman Q The line in Chamberlain, S.D., was abandoned, I thought, but coal cars with BNSF markings are sitting in various parts of the line. Is […]
CHICAGO — Officials at Chicago’s Metra say it’s time to tackle a topic that many in the rail industry have long considered taboo: death by train. The commuter rail agency, in partnership with Amtrak and Chicago-area safety advocates, sponsored a daylong symposium entitled “Breaking the Silence.” The session Wednesday at Chicago Union Station was intended […]
CHICAGO — A Chicago Transit Authority track worker is recovering after she made contact with the track’s electrified third rail, the Chicago Sun Times reports. The track flagger was holding a metal object near the Wilson station on the agency’s Red and Purple Line when she accidentally touched the third rail, a CTA representative tells […]
