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Join us trackside in Waukesha on Sept. 5, 2018, for three northbound Canadian National moves: a rail train, a unit potash train, and an intermodal train. The rain in still falling and many railroads throughout the state are experiencing high-water conditions and washouts. […]
Join us for an adventure in the Utah desert! Ride with Trains Editor Jim Wrinn as he drives the original roadbed of the first transcontinental railroad west of Promontory. See where the Central Pacific built 10 miles of track in one day and where the tracks crossed the salt marshes. Explore the sites of railroad […]
Canadian National CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian shipments of crude by rail, which are already moving at record volumes to the U.S., could double by the end of 2019 as tight pipeline capacity forces oil producers to turn to railroads. With pipeline capacity maxed out in Canada, the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline dealt a blow by […]
CSX donated SD45-2 No. 8954 to Southeastern Railway Museum near Atlanta. SERM: Andrew Durden DULUTH, Ga. — CSX Transportation donated a rare SD45-2 locomotive to the Southeastern Railway Museum that is the first of its kind exhibited in a museum. Electro-Motive Division built CSX No. 8954 in August 1974. It was one of only 136 […]
The Town of Churchill announced the sale of the Hudson Bay Railway on its Facebook page. CHURCHILL, Manitoba — A deal has finally been reached to sell the Hudson Bay Railway, the currently closed line which provides the only ground transportation option to Churchill, on Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba. A post on the town’s […]
NEW YORK CITY — New York Penn Station changes this autumn will largely be above track level. In a media call on Tuesday, Amtrak’s Chief Operating Officer Scot Naparstek and Janet Campbell-Lorenc, senior director of the Northeast Corridor Service Line, reviewed changes that were made over the summer, and what will be happening this fall. […]
Trains Magazine · Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 39 Railroad author and photographer Brian Solomon produces this exclusive biweekly podcast for Trains Magazine. You can catch his column monthly in the magazine or his daily railroad photography blog at briansolomon.com/trackingthelight. Conversations with Brian Solomon, Episode 38 We’re back on the railfan track this week with […]
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the Virginia Museum of Transportation to purchase Erie Lackawanna SDP45 No. 3639, currently painted as Conrail No. 6670, and located in Roanoke, Va. The foundation has initiated a fundraising drive, Extra 3693 North, with an initial goal of $20,000 to purchase and […]
Although this CNJ RS3 had dual engineer controls, the “F” defines the leading end for hand or radio signals. Bert Pennypacker Q When diesels replaced steam locomotives, early cab units had snub noses with good front visibility for the engineer. When hood units appeared, some railroads set them up to run short hood forward and […]
BNSF’s Rich Wessler, left, and Amtrak’s Joe McHugh address stakeholders assembled on the first inspection train of the Chief route, west of Garden City, Kan., on Jan. 10, 2013. Bob Johnston LA JUNTA, Colo. — Following the Aug. 21 meeting between Amtrak officials and Southwest Chief stakeholders in Raton, N.M. — which provided the first […]
Water is crucial to any firefighting effort. BNSF carries it on flatcars and in tank cars. Two photos, Justin Franz WHITEFISH, Mont. – At the west end of BNSF Railway’s yard in Whitefish sit seven maintenance-of-way cars. The uninformed observer might not think much about the mix of tank cars and bulkhead flats, but the […]
One view of the former plan to redevelop Chicago Union Station — now scrapped due to negative public input. Riverside Investment & Development via Amtrak CHICAGO — A plan to remake historic Chicago Union Station by topping it off with a modern glass-and-steel box that some critics described as “an abomination” has been scrapped, according […]
