GE Transportation Wabtec Corp. NEW YORK — Wabtec executives were excited about joining two companies with a rich engineering heritage and a combined 250 years of experience in railroading. “This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Wabtec CEO Raymond Betler told investors and analysts on a conference call on Monday morning. “This is an ideal combination.” […]
New GE locomotives test near the company’s Fort Worth, Texas, factory in 2016. GE Transportation is becoming part of Wabtec in a deal announced today. TRAINS: David Lassen WILMERDING, Pa. and CHICAGO — Wabtec and GE Transportation are combining, according to a statement released at 7 a.m. Eastern time today, creating what Wabtec says will […]
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An overview of the Ravenna car shops and rail yard facilities that will become the future site of the Kentucky rail heritage center and home to Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716. Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. IRVINE, Ky. — Chesapeake & Ohio 2-8-4 No. 2716 will be the centerpiece of a new rail heritage partnership […]
Our insider look at Arizona’s Copper Basin Railway continues, with Charlie Conway focusing his cameras on the real pride of the CBR — its employees! In part 2 of 2, you’ll follow inspectors, mechanics, dispatchers, conductors, engineers, and others who are busy Taking Care of Business. Enjoy this video, and then learn more about the […]
Frank Lonegro, CSX Corp. Chief Financial Officer CSX Corp. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation has laid off about 100 workers at its locomotive shop in Cumberland, Md., as it reduces the facility from 24-hour operation to one daily shift. Workers at the former Baltimore & Ohio shop were informed on May 11. The Cumberland Times-News […]
Boston & Maine No. 77, one of two Pan Am heritage units, leads a freight train near Shawmut, Maine, in January 2013. Justin Franz HEBER CITY, Utah — The Heber Valley Railroad has purchased three former Boston & Maine GP9s from Pan Am Railways. Heber Valley Chief Mechanical Officer Michael Manwiller tells Trains News Wire […]
Norfolk Southern CEO James Squires Norfolk Southern Corp. BOSTON — Norfolk Southern will reopen the yard hump at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, Tenn., as it works to ease congestion amid rising traffic volumes, CEO Jim Squires told an investor conference today. Service has suffered on NS due to congestion on the southern portion of its […]
Duluth & Northeastern No. 14 fills up at Cloquet, Minn., in 1958. William D. Middleton Q How did railroads in northern states keep water in tanks from freezing in the winter? Were the tanks heated and insulated, or filled just before use? – James Alain, Chassell, Mich. A Many water towers in colder climates had […]
Churchill, Manitoba Google Maps CHURCHILL, Manitoba — A group of Manitoba First Nations and a company called iChurchill Inc. has entered into a deal with OmniTRAX of Colorado to purchase the Hudson Bay Railway and assets, including the port of Churchill. This will be good news for Churchill as the community has had its rail […]
LINCOLN, Neb. — The man facing terrorism charges after stopping Amtrak’s California Zephyr last fall has asked to change his plea to guilty, the Omaha World-Herald reports. Taylor Wilson, 26, is scheduled to face trial in June on two charges of terrorism against a mass transportation after the incident last Oct. 22 when, as a […]
