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A conductor watches the reverse move of a pair of locomotives about to couple onto a freight train on CSX’s former Chesapeake & Ohio main line in West Virginia. Chase Gunnoe JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation is continuing to make changes to its operational structure, especially through a series of recent operating rule abolishments. On […]
Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of EMD E9s will supply power to next month’s Whistle Stop train through Nebraska. Union Pacific LINCOLN, Neb. – Union Pacific’s streamlined E9s and a fleet of passenger cars will tour the state of Nebraska early next month as part of a whistle stop tour celebrating Nebraska’s sesquicentennial. Elected officials and […]
WASHINGTON – Senators used words like “concerned,” and “dismayed” as they considered the Trump administration’s proposed budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation during a hearing July 13. Members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on transportation were looking at an overall budget that’s been cut $2.4 billion from the 2017 DOT budget. If they were […]
Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 11 leads a photo freight special in May 2013. Chase Gunnoe CASS, W.Va. – Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 11 will return to steam the weekend of July 15-16 after being out of service for nearly three years. The locomotive’s renovations include a Federal Railroad Administration mandated Form IV overhaul […]
A lower priority train waits out the passage of a group of higher priority trains rolling through a work zone near North East, Pa., in August 2010. Marcus W. Stevens JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The implementation of precision scheduled railroading continues to drive operational improvements at CSX Transportation, even if the results are not reflected in […]
Saginaw Timber No. 2, lettered for subsequent owner Polson Logging, makes a test run at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in May 2016. Ken Hojnacki GARIBALDI, Ore. – In a poetic twist to the strained return of a well-known logging 2-8-2, privately owned Saginaw Timber Co. No. 2 will return to the Pacific Northwest, where it […]
Ron Batory joined Conrail in 1998, 15 months before the big railroad was split between CSX and Norfolk Southern, to oversee the Shared Assets operation. Fred W. Frailey WASHINGTON – The Trump White House Monday announced Ronald L. Batory of New Jersey to be the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation. Batory […]
A Rocky Mountainer train from Vancouver, B.C. enters Jasper, Alta., in 2015. Bob Johnston QUESNEL, B.C.—Out-of-control forest fires in the Cariboo region north of Vancouver, B.C., have closed Canadian National’s former British Columbia Railway line between Lillooet and Quesnel, CN spokeswoman Kate Fenske tells Trains News Wire. “CN is working closely with Emergency Management B.C., […]
Scott Altenbach (right) enjoys the fresh air after emerging from the internal boiler inspection of Santa Fe Railway No. 2926. Also harnessed for safety is Bill McSweeney who assisted the inspection from outside the manway opening atop the boiler. Bill Diven Volunteers working to restore Santa Fe Railway No. 2929 swarm the locomotive during a […]
Withuhn in his Washington office. Smithsonian Institution BURSON, Calif. – Any account of railroading in the past four decades would be incomplete without including the formidable contributions of William L. Withuhn, whose work as a historian, museum professional, journalist, author, shortline executive, preservationist, and engineering consultant is without precedent. He is best known for his […]
TAVARES, Florida – A new tourist train operation is coming to central Florida. The Orlando & North Western Railway, an affiliate of Mid America Railcar Leasing, is in final negotiations to begin service north of Orlando as the Royal Palm Railway Experience. In a press release distributed on July 5, the railroad say that it has […]
Manawa, Wis., is located on the original Green Bay & Western and is now part of the CN network. The rail line through town has not seen a freight shipment since 2012. Google Maps MANAWA, Wis. – Canadian National is in the early stages of issuing a formal discontinuance on a section of the original […]
