The new $14 million bridge over the Lehigh River at Nesquehoning Junction, Pa., will enable Reading & Northern freight trains to make their Reading to Wilkes-Barre run without changing ends. Scott A. Hartley PORT CLINTON, Pa. – Reading & Northern Railroad had another banner year breaking previous records for carloadings, freight revenue, and excursion ticket […]
Norfolk Southern No. 4271 leads the three other F units at Knoxville, Tenn., in November 2011. Reading & Northern has acquired two and will debut them on a railfan excursion in April 2020. Jim Wrinn PORT CLINTON, Pa. – The public will have its first opportunity to ride behind Reading & Northern’s recently acquired former […]
Davenport Industrial Railroad serves the Davenport Transload Facility in Davenport, Iowa John Howell Davenport Industrial Railroad, a 2.8-mile short line that connects the main line of the Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway, near Davenport, Iowa, with the city-owned Davenport Transload Facility, began operations on Jan. 1, 2020. The city […]
Canadian Pacific has completed its acquisition of the Central Maine & Quebec as of Dec. 30. Scott A. Hartley BANGOR, Maine — Canadian Pacific Railway has announced it completed acquisition of the Central Maine & Quebec Railway on Dec. 30. While the regional railroad is now owned by the CP, the deal still needs to be […]
DARIEN, Conn. — Genesee & Wyoming’s sale to Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC has been completed, the shortline holding company announced this morning. The deal takes the company private, with each share of stock receiving $112 cash. [See “Genesee & Wyoming sold in $8.4 billion deal,” Trains News Wire, July 1, 2019.] As a result, the […]
The last Mission Mountain local into downtown Kalispell, Mont., prepares to depart on Dec. 27. Justin Franz KALISPELL, Mont. — The last train into Kalispell rolled out of town on Dec. 27, just four days shy of the 128th anniversary of the Great Northern Railway’s arrival in the community. But despite the finality of the […]
WASHINGTON — Short line and regional railroads received an early Christmas gift with the passage of a government spending bill last week that included a five-year extension of a popular tax credit. Last week, Congress passed a $1.4 trillion budget that included an extension of the Short Line Railroad 45G Tax Credit, first enacted in […]
Genesee & Wyoming’s more than 100 owned or leased short line railroads make it one of the largest players in North American railroading that is not a Class I railroad. It remains the largest short line holding company on the continent, if not the world. And this year it went private. Brookfield Asset Management […]
Two of Central Maine & Quebec’s repainted GP38-2s lead the local freight eastbound at Sherbrooke, Quebec, on Sept. 24, 2018. A Canadian Pacific filing with the Surface Transportation Board has outlined the railroad’s plan for the short line once its purchase of the CM&Q is approved. Scott A. Hartley BANGOR, Maine — The Canadian Pacific […]
WASHINGTON — A tax credit to help short line and regional railroads pay for maintenance and infrastructure improvements has been included in a $1.4 trillion spending bill bound for the White House this week. On Tuesday, the House passed a government spending bill that included an extension of the Short Line Railroad 45G Tax Credit […]
In August 2013, Strasburg 2-10-0 No. 90 switches freight at the NS interchange in Paradise, Pa., near the location of a new transload facility. Trains: Jim Wrinn STRASBURG, Pa. — The Strasburg Rail Road plans to expand its freight services with the addition of a new facility at the other end of its line in […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A dozen railroads are among the recipients of more than $40 million in Pennsylvania Department of Transportation funding for 26 rail infrastructure projects throughout the state. CSX Transportation is receiving the largest single state grant, $14.4 million for clearance projects to allow double-stack trains to reach the port of Philadelphia. Other grants […]
