HYNDMAN, Pa. — First responders are keeping residents away from a blaze from a derailed CSX Transportation freight train Wednesday morning. An eastbound CSX Transportation freight train derailed just west Hyndman, between Bedford, Pa., and Cumberland, Md., early Wednesday morning causing a fire and local evacuations, the Associated Press Reports. The incident happened around 5 […]
Magazine: Trains Magazine
Amtrak trains to Grand Central Terminal NEWSWIRE
NEW YORK CITY — Inbound Amtrak Albany-to-Grand Central Terminal Train No. 242 is passing through Marble Hill in the Bronx at 4:55 p.m. on July 26, 2017, as one of three Monday through Friday round trips from Albany, due to track work reconstruction at New York Penn Station. Led by non-dual power mode P42DC No. […]
Taconite plant, mine re-openings good news for CSX, BNSF NEWSWIRE
REYNOLDS, Ind. — There’s good news in the air for the metallic ore business units of BNSF Railway and CSX Transportation as plans were announced in late July to re-open shuttered mining facilities in Minnesota in addition to the opening of a new taconite pellet plant in Indiana. Republic Steel and ERP Iron Ore LLC […]
Photo charters for 2-6-6-2 delayed until 2018 NEWSWIRE
An image of Chesapeake & Ohio No. 1309 2-6-6-2 as it appeared at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Md., in 2014. Trains file photo CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and Trains Magazine will postpone inaugural photo-charter freights with Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309, Chief Executive Officer John Garner and Trains Editor […]
Nickel Plate Berkshire to be Ohio-bound NEWSWIRE
Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum STRASBURG, Pa. — Officials with the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania say they’ll soon transfer ownership of their historic Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive, S-3 class Berkshire 2-8-4 No. 757, to the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. The Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum will be […]
Biodiesel fuel in locomotives
Q Certain states require fueling stations to blend biodiesel into diesel fuel for cars and trucks at different times of the year. Do railroads use biodiesel in their locomotives? – Brett Schmidt, Madison, Wis. A Class I railroads, regionals, short lines, and commuter agencies have tried biodiesel with a variety of blends from a 10-percent […]
CSX Transportation seeks hourly-rate agreement with engineers NEWSWIRE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen are discussing shifting to an hourly-rate agreement. CSX notified the union on July 19 that it would like to replace the mileage-based pay system with an hourly rate, William Lyons, general chairman of the union’s CSX Northern Lines General Committee of Adjustment, […]
Captive or forced switching leads list of suggested STB regulatory changes NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON — No surprise, railroads and shippers are sharply divided on the issue of allowing railroad customers with connections to only one railroad to choose an alternative carrier. Shippers call it “captive switching.” “Forced switching” is the term the railroads uses. Both sides shared their views on July 25 before an informal Surface Transportation Board […]
Big Steam is Back DVD preview
See how your favorite big steam locomotives are rebuilt and run — from Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern Railway No. 4501, to the big steam story of 2016: the return of Union Pacific No. 844. You can now watch a preview of this new video production, which features popular steam locomotives from coast to coast! […]
CP heritage fleet headlines Canada 150 Train this summer NEWSWIRE
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific is running a commemorative Canada 150 train this summer that will tour much of the railroad’s Canadian system in recognition of the country’s 150th birthday. The special train left railroad headquarters in Calgary this week and is headed to Port Moody, British Columbia, for its first event on Friday, July […]
UPDATE: GE to shift locomotive assembly to Texas NEWSWIRE
A GE Transportation sign in front of the main entrance to the company’s Lawrence Park, Pa., locomotive plant on July 27. GE officials announced on Thursday that all locomotive production in Pennsylvania will be moved to Fort Worth, Texas, by the end of 2018. Submitted photo ERIE, Pa. — GE Transportation officials confirm that they […]
Fort Wayne society to restore SD9 to operating condition NEWSWIRE
Chris Lantz stands on the short hood end of former Norfolk Southern Nickle Plate Road SD9 No. 358. Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Steel Dynamics, Inc. has donated $3,000 to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Inc. for Project 358, an effort to restore the society’s 1950s diesel locomotive, Nickel Plate […]
