Knoxville Locomotive Works SE10B No. 30 is new power for San Francisco Belt Railway. Doug Wooton Alco No. 23 loads cars with “dirty dirt” at the SFBR yard. Davis Strench No. 25’s engine will be removed, and the unit placed on display. Kyle Stockman SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Bay Railroad is in the […]
Lake State Railway map Surface Transportation Board filing WASHINGTON — Lake State Railway will lease 53 miles of CSX Transportation’s Plymouth Line in Michigan. The trackage covered under the deal, announced in a regulatory filing posted on Monday, runs from Mount Morris, Mich., near Flint, to Middle River, Mich., near Plymouth. The railroads envision completing […]
CONCORD, N.H. — United Rail, Inc., said Monday that it has acquired the New England Southern Railroad in New Hampshire. NES operates a 22-mile rail line in the Concord, N.H., area, and interchanges with Pan Am Railways for southbound freight shipments. According to a statement from United Rail, the acquisition of New England Southern gives […]
Wilmington & Western founder Tom Marshall speaks at an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Greenbank Station. Michael Murray WILMINGTON, Del. — Thomas C. Marshall Jr., founder of the Wilmington & Western steam excursion railroad in northern Delaware, died Feb. 12, 2019, just eight days short of his 95th birthday, after a lengthy illness. In […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A giant of the short line railroad industry has passed. Russell Tedder, who coordinated Georgia-Pacific’s railroads and served as chairman of the American Shortline Railroad Association, has died. He passed Jan. 29 at age 83. According to an obituary posted at Smith Funeral Home in North Little Rock, Ark., Tedder graduated […]
No. 422 rests at Kansas City, Mo., prior to shipment. The unit is expected to receive a larger logo upon delivery to the railroad in Minnesota. Zack Pumphery ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Burlington Northern’s Cascade green paint scheme was consigned to history with BN’s merger with Santa Fe in 1995, but the colors are making […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Department of Transportation has issued a request for proposals for an operator of a 90-mile branch of a state-owned short line in eastern Washington. The Palouse & Lewiston branch is one of three sections of what’s collectively known as the Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad. The Palouse & Lewistown […]
Chuck Baker, new American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association President WASHINGTON – Today the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association’s Chair, Judy Petry, President and General Manager of Farmrail System, Inc., announced the ASLRRA Board’s appointment of Charles H. “Chuck” Baker as the association’s new President. Baker will begin his tenure on Feb. […]
CSX’s Florida Panhandle route TRAINS: Rick Johnson/Steve Sweeney JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It’s a failure to launch for the Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad. Federal regulators had approved the sale of 373 miles of CSX Transportation trackage across the Florida Panhandle, effective Jan. 6, but CSX and short line operator RailUSA scuttled their deal last week. […]
G&W CEO John C. Hellmann TRAINS: David Lassen LOMBARD, Ill. — Precision Scheduled Railroading is not just for Class I railroads — either as a concept or in its impact. Railroading’s most inescapable topic also reaches short lines, as Genesee & Wyoming chairman, president, and CEO John Hellman outlined during his Wednesday luncheon address to […]
A Big Eagle Railroad coal train, operated by train crews with Appalachian Railcar Services, hauls loaded CSXT hoppers to the CSX interchange at Chesapeake, W.Va., along the former Winifrede Railroad’s 6-mile branch line. Chase Gunnoe CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Watco Cos.’ Kanawha River Railroad is expanding its presence in southern West Virginia with the operation of […]
Hoosick, N.Y. Google Maps HOOSICK, N.Y. — Three propane tank cars that were part of an eight-car derailment in upstate New York are scheduled to have their contents offloaded to other cars on Friday, according to the local fire chief. “The offloading process takes approximately four hours per tank car,” says North Hoosick Fire Chief […]
