A special train made of new Amtrak Viewliner baggage cars departs Elmira, N.Y., on Wednesday. The cars are bound for Florida for acceptance inspections. Don Jilson ELMIRA, N.Y. – Eighteen new Amtrak baggage cars are moving Wednesday from the CAF USA plant near Elmira to Amtrak’s Hialeah maintenance facility near Miami for final inspections before […]
The reassembled ‘Skookum’ rests at the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad shops near Tillamook on Tuesday morning. Martin E. Hansen TILLAMOOK, Ore. – A unique logging locomotive is again whole – and upright – after a highway trip the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad shops in coastal Tillamook this week. Decades after it rolled over in the […]
A surviving Erie Mining F9 oversees the scrapping operation of the B units in early December. Doug Buell Pieces of former Erie Mining F9s litter the ground in early December. Doug Buell HOYT LAKES, Minn. – In Minnesota this month, followers of Electro-Motive F units can rejoice that two of the classic cab units will […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Amtrak will move its Vermonter service to the “Knowledge Corridor” in northern Massachusetts Dec. 29, 2014. The new route will feature stops in Greenfield and Northampton. The train will also add a stop in Holyoke later in 2015 when work is complete. The added stops due to the reroute will replace service […]
A Norfolk Southern freight passes the structure just before its demolition on Thursday. Steve Smedley BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Like so many others before it, a former Interurban station has bit the dust, literally, as the former Illinois Traction System station and warehouse complex, located in the warehouse district south of downtown Bloomington, Illinois was razed […]
Trains collection MILWAUKEE– Jim Scribbins, the career Milwaukee Road employee who became his company’s unofficial historian as well as a prolific railroad author and photographer, died Thanksgiving Day, November 27, at home in West Bend after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86. Born in 1928, Scribbins dedicated a substantial part of his […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. – Vertex Rail Technologies LLC will soon begin manufacturing freight cars in a former Terex Corp. crane-manufacturing facility in Wilmington, creating 1,300 jobs for the coastal city. The company will initially manufacture tank cars, but also has plans to offer covered hoppers as well. Vertex has received Association of American Railroads certification and […]
Tractive Power Corp.’s new TP56 three-axle switcher. Tractive Power Corp. VANOUVER, British Columbia – Tractive Power Corp. of North Vancouver has developed and begun manufacturing its TP56 industrial switching locomotive. The unit is designed for moving freight cars within industrial facilities – relieving the industry of having to rely on outside sources for switching. The […]
U34CH No. 3372 in transit in late October. Michael William Sullivan BOONTON, N.J. – For the first time in more than a decade, a General Electric U34CH rolled along the NJ Transit main line. Last week, the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey moved the world’s last surviving U34CH, No. 3372, from the New […]
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Montana Agriculture Department Director Ron de Yong has informally asked BNSF Railway officials to reopen the Great Falls to Helena line to help deal with increased traffic and delays in shipping along the Hi-Line in northern Montana, the Great Falls Tribune reports. De Yong tells the Tribune he made the request […]
A Minnesota Southern train crosses a trestle at Magnolia. Steve Glischinski LUVERNE, Minn. – The Minnesota Southern Railway hopes to reopen the western end of its line following flooding which devastated the railroad last summer. Heavy rains struck the area in June, heavily damaging the railroad. No trains have reached the west end of the […]
Jeff Robertson EPPING, N.D. – Crestwood Midstream Partners has loaded its 1,000th crude oil unit train at its COLT Hub in Epping, about 15 miles northeast of Williston. The facility began service in June 2012 with an original capacity to load 80,000 barrels per day, but now handles up to 160,000 barrels per day after […]
