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MILWAUKEE — High school students are helping design a new water tower for the Milwaukee County (Wis.) Zoo’s 15-inch gauge railroad as part of a unique partnership between schools and a number of organizations to bolster STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. The program is being spearheaded by Learn Deep, a local initiative that […]
Interior of the recently re-opened Cincinnati Union Terminal. David T. Rohdenburg The year 2018 was significant for some of the grandes dames of America’s railroad past, present and future. CINCINNATI In Cincinnati, the art deco masterpiece Union Terminal reopened after a 30-month, $228-million restoration project. The building is home to several museums and is a […]
A Norfolk Southern SD70ACe pushes on an empty crude oil train in Toledo, Ohio, in March 2013. Michael D. Harding Q Watching passing freight trains, I’ve seen a locomotive located in the middle or at the end of the train. Are these pusher locomotives being run by remote control by the engineer in the lead […]
MONTREAL — VIA Rail Canada has selected Siemens to build the new equipment for its Quebec City-Windsor, Ont., corridor, a $740-million ($999-million Canadian) contract to build 32 trainsets with delivery beginning in 2022. The bidirectional trainsets will use Siemens Charger locomotives, which meet U.S. EPA Tier 4 emission standards. Similar locomotives are now in use […]
Association of American Railroads Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads on Wednesday reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Dec. 8. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 570,225 carloads and intermodal units, up 3.1 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the […]
Rescue workers survey the scene of a train accident in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday. A high speed train hit a locomotive engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass. Associated Press A high speed trainset for Turkey’s state railway is displayed at InnoTrans in Berlin in 2016. One of six similar trainsets was involved in Thursday’s […]
UP steam shop crew places the front engine under Big Boy No. 4014 on Dec. 11. R.T. Burnham CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 is feeling like at least half of its old self today. Photos published on Facebook news groups showed Union Pacific steam shop crews on Tuesday lifting the smokebox and […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Members of California’s congressional delegation have joined the effort to save Amtrak’s reservation call center in Riverside, which employs about 500 workers. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that 37 of the state’s representatives in Congress have agreed to sign a letter asking Amtrak to change its plan to close the Riverside center on […]
A GE-built TE33A locomotive for Ukraine. GE Transportation MELITOPOL, Ukraine — GE Transportation and Ukrainian Railways today celebrated a major accomplishment as the first Evolution Series locomotive entered service in Ukraine, part of an ongoing cooperative effort to comprehensively upgrade the country’s diesel-electric rail fleet. The project goal is to modernize Ukraine’s transportation infrastructure and […]
A Metra SouthWest Service train arrives at the Larraway Road station in New Lenox, Ill. Metra has signed a contract for a new train-tracking system which should help get more reliable information about train status to riders. TRAINS: David Lassen A screenshot from Metra’s website shows the location of two trains on the Milwaukee North […]
No. 576’s route back to the rails. Trains: Rick Johnson NC&StL 4-8-4 No. 576 will leave Nashville’s Centennial Park, its home for 65 years, on Jan. 13. Trains: Jim Wrinn NASHVILLE – A steam locomotive that has been on display in Nashville for decades is about to take its first journey since 1953. After two […]
A rendering shows the new bilevel EMU equipment Bombardier will build for NJ Transit. NJ Transit NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit’s latest passenger equipment order has a new wrinkle on the agency’s equipment needs. The agency on Wednesday approved a 113-car, $669 million order for bilevel cars with Canadian builder Bombardier, with future options to […]
