A CSX Transportation train burns at Hyndman, Pa., on Aug. 2. Safety investigators say that train crews had 33 handbrakes applied when they began down grade with a 178-car train. Pennsylvania State Police via the National Transportation Safety Board WASHINGTON — Federal investigators say that a CSX Transportation train that derailed in early August had […]
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific No. 652 was one of 13 E8As purchased by the Rock Island in 1951. The locomotive and sister unit E6A No. 630 are gradually being restored to operating condition. Jerry Huddleston OELWEIN, Iowa — This weekend the Manly Junction Railroad Museum’s two former Rock Island E units, E6A No. 630 […]
FULL SCREEN Steve Smedley A humid breeze wisps through the wheels of a rusted baggage cart in Champaign, Ill., at 5:28 a.m. Monday. Amtrak’s product line agent Ed Kim stands on the platform of the Illinois Terminal Intermodal Transportation Center in Champaign as the engineer of the Eclipse Express special dims the headlight for a […]
A view of a Pennsylvania Railroad long-haul fuel tender that the T1 Trust recently purchased. Pennsylvania Railroad T1 Trust The T1 Trust has purchased a 200,000-pound Pennsylvania Railroad long-haul tender No. 6659 from the Western New York Railway Historical society that had been used behind an M1, a 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotive. Essentially, a T1 tender […]
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A Siemens Charger locomotive occupies the trailing position on a southbound Hiawatha train on Aug. 4. A battery caught fire in a Charger locomotive on a Hiawatha on Tuesday. Chris Guss CHICAGO — Siemens is investigating the cause of a battery fire in one of its Charger locomotives that halted an Amtrak Hiawatha train Tuesday […]
This “Trackside with Trains” photo contest comes from August 2017. The theme was “Biggest Bridges”. Trackside with Trains was a regular, periodic contest among Trains website visitors from the earlier 2000s until October 2018. Anyone in the world who wanted to participate, could, and with rare exception, have their images judged by viewers with results […]
Amtrak’s westbound ‘Sunset Limited’ pauses for a station stop in Atmore, Ala., at sunrise in January 1995. It was the nation’s first and only transcontinental passenger train. Bob Johnston Q There were numerous named passenger trains that spanned distances beyond the reach of a single railroad, such as the California Zephyr between Chicago and Oakland, […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Soo Line 2-8-2 No. 1003 with a Wisconsin & Southern Geep leading, deadheads through Waukesha, Wis., Thursday morning en route to a display event in Chicago for Shriners Hospital for Children. The engine was to overnight in Janesville, Wis., and continue its journey Chicago Friday. Video by Jim Wrinn […]
Stephen C. Tobias Norfolk Southern NORFOLK, Va. — Stephen C. Tobias, Norfolk Southern’s former vice chairman and chief operating officer, died Aug. 7. He was 72. Under Tobias’ operations leadership, NS won an unprecedented 15 consecutive Harriman Gold Medal Awards for the best safety performance among U.S. Class I railroads. “He was a great railroader […]
Westbound passengers have missed Canadian Rockies scenery at Jasper, Alta., on a 6 hours-late Canadian on Nov. 21, 2014 Bob Johnston VANCOUVER, B.C. — If you had any doubt that VIA Rail Canada trains are suffering schedule setbacks, look no further than the Aug. 6 Canadian that arrived in Vancouver nearly 24 hours late. The […]
