MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Rail Link will install positive train control technology along more than 600 miles of its main line in Montana and Idaho by 2022, company officials say. Vice President of Operations Stacy Posey tells Trains that MRL will be one of the first railroads of its size to voluntarily install the safety […]
THE PAS, Man. — Although Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised full passenger and freight service restoration to Churchill, Manitoba, “by the end of November”, Trains News Wire has learned that full service could begin within the next few weeks and the tracks should be secure through the winter. Last Friday, the two SD50 and […]
Nashville & Eastern westbound freight at Brush Creek, Tenn., in October 2016. Steve Glischinski NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. – R. J. Corman Railroad Co. announced the finalization of an agreement to acquire the Nashville & Eastern Railroad Corp.; Nashville & Western Railroad Corp.; Transit Solutions Group, a commuter rail operation; and three related operating entities. The closing […]
Download this free in-depth 61-page PDF download to get a better understanding of what it takes to survive as a railroad. The following railroads did things that others could not to survive. Find out what sets them apart from the others. The Paducah & Louisville Railway and how its initial goal of solidifying relationships with existing […]
Alco built a total of 190 Century 424 road-switchers during 1963–67. Nearly half went to Canada, and a quarter to Mexico. Of the 53 built for U.S. customers, 6 were for the Belt Railway of Chicago, which used them until 1999. Harold A. Edmonson photo […]
Mikado 131 of the Mississippi Central, a 150-mile line linking Natchez and Hattiesburg, Miss., heads a work train assisting in the cleanup of a mishap west of Brookhaven. The 2-8-2 carries two bells, a characteristic of MSC steam power. C. W. Witbeck photo […]
Kalispell, Mont., and railroad officials hammer in final “golden” spikes to celebrate the completion of a rail-served industrial park. Justin Franz KALISPELL, Mont. — Officials in Montana hope that a recently completed rail-served industrial park will lead to increased freight traffic and pave the way for building a new rail trail through the heart of […]
CHICAGO — Iowa Interstate Railroad announced on Tuesday that it will acquire three new Evolution Series locomotives from GE Transportation. The locomotives will be produced in early 2020 and used to transport grains, ethanol, metals, and more across Iowa Interstate’s network between Chicago and Omaha, Neb. “For over a decade, [Iowa Interstate] has invested heavily […]
The Providence & Worcester operates in four Northeastern states. Here, train NR3 passes the Thames River in Preston, Conn., on Sept. 1, 2009. Robert A. LaMay Q I was watching a professional golf tournament being played in Cromwell, Conn., just south of Hartford. Who owns the rail line that passes between the 13th hole and […]
Crews work to clean up the derailment Wednesday afternoon. Chris Hughes BILLINGS, Mont. – Montana Rail Link’s former Northern Pacific main line across Montana is closed today following a derailment near Columbus, about 40 miles west of Billings. A westbound coal train derailed on single track at approximately 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. MRL spokesman Jim Lewis […]
STRASBURG, Pa. — The Strasburg Rail Road has acquired another diesel locomotive to bolster its burgeoning freight business. This one is an ex-ATSF SSB-1200, rebuilt from a 1953 EMD SW9. The unit was last in use at the Celanese plant at Narrows, Va. Currently identified as SRC No. 1235, the locomotive arrived in Lancaster on […]
Linn Moedinger Linn Moedinger is among the last of his kind: those who learned his trade from the final generation of Class I steam railroaders. At the end of 2018, the president and chief mechanical officer of Pennsylvania’s famed Strasburg Rail Road will retire. Linn’s name is a household word in the steam fraternity. We […]
