In November 1953, Moguls and Pacifics watch as a GP7 moves onto the turntable at Boston & Maine’s roundhouse just across the Charles River from North Station, Boston. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
B&M steam and diesel at Boston
Zone & Region: Northeast
CSX begins operating New England regional Pan Am Railways
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Pan Am Railways is now a fallen flag. The New England regional officially became part of CSX Transportation on Wednesday, six weeks after the Surface Transportation Board approved the acquisition. “We are excited to welcome Pan Am’s experienced railroaders into the CSX family and look forward to the improvements we will make […]
East Side Access terminal gets new name
NEW YORK — The New York City terminal for Long Island Rail Road’s East Side Access project has a new name: Grand Central Madison. The long-delayed, $11.2 billion project to build a new LIRR station in midtown Manhattan, deep beneath Grand Central Terminal, received the new name in a Tuesday press conference featuring New York […]
NS gets final approval for double-stack clearance projects in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH — Norfolk Southern has received final approval for clearance projects that will allow double-track container traffic to move on one of its routes through Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday accepted the final portion of an agreement reached by a mediator in December 2019. That agreement will allow three […]
NYC subway ‘nostalgia rides’ return
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s New York Transit Museum is offering true trips into the past, bringing back vintage subway car rides after a two-year, pandemic-related absence. Three “Nostalgia Ride” trips are scheduled, featuring rides on routes of the MTA’s three predecessor lines, some of the on the exact lines those subway systems […]
Testing EMD electric freight locomotives
Nearly five decades have passed since General Motors debuted two new EMD electric freight locomotives. There were two models: the 6,000-hp GM6C, which operated on two six-wheel trucks, and the 10,000-horsepower GM10B, which operated on three four-wheel trucks. The GM6C began testing in 1975, the GM10B in 1976. The only practical choice for evaluation at […]
Work on East Broad Top 2-8-2 No. 16 nearing completion
ROCKHILL FURNACE, Pa. — Out of service for 66 years, East Broad Top narrow-gauge 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive No. 16 is getting close to operating again. Built for EBT by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1916, it’s one of six surviving BLW Mikados on the roster of the iconic short-line railroad in central Pennsylvania, which has […]
Last cars removed from water after Pennsylvania derailment
HARMAR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — All of the cars that went into a creek as a result of a Thursday derailment of a Norfolk Southern train were removed from the water as of Sunday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Two locomotives and 17 cars of the train derailed after the train hit a dump truck loaded with […]
A small yard garden railway
Small yard garden railway: My wife wanted a big flower garden, and she had bought me a Bachmann Big Haulers Christmas train. How could she not have seen this coming? We live in a mobile home park in West Virginia and have a very small yard, but that didn’t stop us from building a railway. […]
Drone whirs through East Broad Top tunnels
ROCKY RIDGE, Pa. — Flying a 21st-century drone to plot the future of two 19th-century tunnels, the East Broad Top Railroad took a step forward Thursday, May 26, by revisiting its past. Specialists set up, calibrated, and flew a drone through the Ray’s Hill (some spell it Wray’s Hill) and Sideling Hill tunnels, nestled in […]
Oil leak from derailment near Pittsburgh closes river (update)
HARMAR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An oil spill from a Norfolk Southern derailment on Thursday has led to the closure of the nearby Allegheny River to boating for the Memorial Day weekend as well as an ongoing road closure. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Thursday afternoon’s derailment in Harmar Township, on the northwestern edge of Pittsburgh, […]
Federal grants announced for rail projects in Pennsylvania, Kentucky
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have begun announcing Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements, or CRISI, grant awards from the Federal Railroad Administration, with funding for projects in Pennsylvania and Kentucky announced Thursday. Two awards announced in Pennsylvania U.S. Sen Bob Casey (D) announced CRISI awards of $14.7 million for the Berks County Rail Project […]
