MIAMI — South Florida commuter rail operator Tri-Rail will restore service to full pre-pandemic levels as of Monday, Oct. 25, operating 25 round trips on weekdays and 15 on weekends. The South Florida Regional Transportation Authority announced the schedule change on Wednesday. WFOR-TV reports Steven Abrams, the authority’s executive director, said, “Tri-Rail has had one […]
WASHINGTON — Weekly U.S. rail traffic continues to slip compared to 2020, with the latest figures from the Association of American Railroads showing a 4.2% drop from the same week a year ago. For the week ending Oct. 16, the overall volume of 496,983 carloads and intermodal units is, in addition to the decline compared […]
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation’s third-quarter profits, revenue, and volume all grew thanks to strong freight demand and the railroad’s acquisition of a bulk chemical trucking company. But executives said the railroad would have been able to handle more traffic if not for a persistent worker shortage, as well as the impact of the spike […]
WASHINGTON — Amtrak has asked the Surface Transportation to take action on two fronts on its pending request for a ruling enabling it to start passenger service between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala. The company is requesting that the board order CSX and Norfolk Southern to provide access to their properties to prepare for the […]
WHIPPANY, N.J. — A well-known artifact of 1960s and 1970s tourist railroading has been restored to its appearance from that era. Whippany Railway Museum’s 1907 Baldwin-built Southern Railway Class H4 2-8-0 No. 385 has been repainted into the green and gold scheme it wore for the Morris County Central tourist railroad 50 years ago. The […]
Electro-Motive Division’s GP30 was a pioneer of sorts: a herald of the second generation of diesel-electric locomotion on American railways. By 1960 most American railroads had an idea of what worked and what didn’t cut it in diesel operations. Watch Lionel’s Legacy GP30 run here. Builders such as Alco, Baldwin, Lima-Hamilton, and Fairbanks-Morse fell to […]
How did you get started in the hobby? I received an HO scale model kit of a steam locomotive for Christmas when I was 14 years old. I had fun following the instructions, then building a railway to run it on. I also liked building outdoor villages with buildings and roads with toy cars and real […]
American Z Line has added an Electro-Motive Division SW1500 diesel locomotive to its growing lineup of Z scale products. The first two road names announced for the end-cab switcher are Southern Pacific (scarlet and gray in three road numbers) and Reading Co. (yellow and green in two numbers). Features on the SW1500 include prototype-specific details, […]
Stan Trzoniec’s modeling work has graced the covers and pages of Classic Toy Trains for a couple of decades. His eye for detail and excellent photography skills have made him one of the standouts in the toy train world. See his work in the in the September 2021 issue. We asked him a few questions […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Higher fuel costs and a disappointing Canadian grain crop weighed on Canadian Pacific’s third-quarter profits, the railway reported today. “There’s certainly challenges ahead as we look forward to our base business. We’ve got a smaller Canadian grain crop, we’ve got some supply chain issues, challenges, that the balance of the industry is also […]
CHICAGO — Metra will restore service to pre-pandemic levels while avoiding fare increases as part of its proposed 2022 proposed operating budget. The agency’s board of directors has also approved a $263 million budget for capital projects. The 2022 operating plan also includes a new $6 day pass that would be valued for unlimited rides […]
