PRR tail car Frank Thomson will bring up the markers on the special move to celebrate the 1949 Broadway Limited. Note the replica sign. Rudy Garbely NEW YORK — Three Pennsylvania Railroad Broadway Limited cars from the streamlined 1949 edition of the train will celebrate 70 years of service July 12-14 when they operate New […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Watch for major changes to Union Pacific’s Chicago-based intermodal operations this month. Rumors are already swirling about specific traffic shifts and operations changes, but the only definite details available come from a May 2 UP notice announcing Intermodal re-shuffling. Specifically, railroad officials say they’ve sought to “simplify” Chicago intermodal operations by idling […]
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The cleanup of a coal-train derailment in the Great Dismal Swamp will likely take weeks, the Virginian-Pilot reports. Thirty-six cars of the Norfolk Southern train derailed in the swamp early Tuesday. [See “Amtrak service to Norfolk suspended following NS derailment,” Trains News Wire, June 26, 2019.] Chris Lowie, manager of the Great […]
In a 2007 photo, Tom Fawell poses in his Chicagoland studio with his painting of Southern Railway GP38-2’s —running long hood forward, of course Gregory Palumbo CHICAGO — Tom Fawell, the Chicago artist who dazzled a generation with his rakish artwork depicting Electro-Motive Division diesel locomotives on the move, has died at age 90 in […]
BOSTON — A former Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority worker has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $450,000 from bus and trolley fare boxes. The Associated Press reports that Stephen Fagerberg, 55, was caught when investigators planted marked bills in fare collection boxes Fagerberg was supposed to service. Those bills then ended up in his personal […]
DARIEN, Conn. — Genesee & Wyoming, North America’s largest shortline holding company, is being purchased for $8.4 billion. The acquisition, for $112 per share by Brookfield Infrastructure, was announced shortly before 7 a.m. EDT today. The deal will result in G&W becoming a privately held company. “We believe this transaction is an excellent outcome for […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Shortline holding company Genesee & Wyoming will soon go private in an $8.4-billion-deal. And that’s about all there is to it, one railroad analyst says. “It’s been strongly rumored for months,” says Anthony B. Hatch of ABH Consulting. “I was not surprised.” Hatch says the broad outlines of a buyout, first reported […]
TRENTON, N.J. — NJ Transit will receive its largest general-fund subsidy in state history as a result of the Fiscal 2020 budget signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy on Sunday. NJ Transit will receive a supplemental allocation of $150 million in general fund support for a total subsidy of $457.5 million. Sunday’s signing, after […]
PHILADELPHIA — The delivery of 45 new Regional Rail cars for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority will be delayed into 2020. The agency’s board learned of the delay at its meeting last week. At the same meeting, it approved $34.2 million in contracts to build a new station in Ardmore, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The […]
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board has announced it will hold a board meeting on July 23 to determine probable cause of the Feb. 4, 2018, collision of Amtrak and CSX Transportation trains near Cayce, S.C. The engineer and conductor on the Amtrak train were killed, and more than 90 others on board required […]
Manitou & Pikes Peak Railroad steam locomotive No. 4 is staged on a short stretch of railroad track outside the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel in Williams, Ariz., after delivery on June 28, 2019. The smokestack, removed for transport, has yet to be reinstalled. GCRY: Eric Hadder WILLIAMS, Ariz. — In another symbiotic tie between members […]
LAMY, N.M. — Santa Fe Southern Railway rarely operates anymore, but on June 27, 2019, more than 200 people visiting Santa Fe from the University of Iowa chartered the four-car train from Santa Fe to Lamy. The train departed the Santa Fe Railyard on time at 5:15 p.m. for its 18.3-mile journey to Lamy. Unfortunately, […]
