Locomotive 2016: Ontario Southland F unit action

Red railroad snowplow spraying snow to each side of the tracks.

Join Locomotive 2016 Editor Greg McDonnell as he visits this now-famous Canadian short line and its fleet of FP9s! You’ll see the locomotives on freight trains and snow plow duty, and check out the engine room while they speed down the track! Only from Locomotive 2016 and Trains Magazine! […]

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UPDATE: Genesee & Wyoming to buy Providence & Worcester NEWSWIRE

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A Providence & Worcester aggregate train seen at Reeds Gap, Conn. Scott A. Hartley WORCESTER, Mass. — Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced Monday that it would buy the Providence & Worcester for $126 million later this year. The P&W owns more than 163 miles of track in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and has operating […]

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Lancaster & Chester receives new six-axle power NEWSWIRE

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A new mother-slug combination arrives at South Carolina’s Lancaster & Chester Railroad recently. David B. Clarke New power recently arrived on the Lancaster & Chester in Chester, S.C., with fresh blue paint. The mother-slug combination is the first six-axle power the railroad has ever received, with the mother being the SD40T-2 (ex-Union Pacific No. 8802, […]

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Trains Presents: Montana Rail Link

Trains Presents takes you to the marvelous Montana Rail Link in its latest installment! Check out the heavy mainline action, see the railroad’s all-EMD roster, enjoy run-through trains from BNSF Railway, and find out just what is a “Gas Local!” And be sure to check out the Trains‘ Montana Rail Link photo diesel roster and […]

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Trains Presents: Montana Rail Link

Trains Presents takes you to the marvelous Montana Rail Link in its latest installment! Check out the heavy mainline action, see the railroad’s all-EMD roster, enjoy run-through trains from BNSF Railway, and find out just what is a “Gas Local!” And be sure to check out the Trains‘ Montana Rail Link photo diesel roster and […]

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Sale of FEC car 90 offers the chance to live like a railroad tycoon NEWSWIRE

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Henry M. Flagler’s personal business car on the Florida East Coast, No. 90, is now up for sale. Ozark Mountain Railcar website NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — If you want to live like a railroad tycoon, at least a little, you’d be hard pressed to do any better than own the private railroad car of one of […]

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