Florida DOT commits $67 million for Tampa streetcar expansion The Florida Department of Transportation announced Tuesday it will contribute $67 million toward a plan to expand Tampa’s TECO Line Streetcar, a proposed $234 million project which would add 1.3 miles to the existing 2.7-mile heritage streetcar system connecting downtown to the Ybor City district. The […]
Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, structures, electronics, train sets, and more by reading Model Railroader’s frequent product updates. Here are the products Model Railroader’s editors have news on for the week of Dec. 10, 2020. HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP9 and GP9B diesel locomotive. GP9: Canadian […]
Additional Friday morning rail news: Relatives ask for police investigation, Prime Minister’s intervention in CP derailment case The mother of a crew member killed in the February 2019 runaway incident of a Canadian Pacific train near Field, B.C., has filed formal complaints with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police asking them to step into an investigation […]
Thursday morning Canadian Pacific and Canadian National news: CP announces plans for new Vancouver-area transload and logistics facility Canadian Pacific plans to build a transload and logistics facility adjacent to its intermodal rail facility in Pitt Meadows, B.C. The proposed facility, CP Logistics Park: Vancouver, is in the early stages of design and is subject […]
Electro-Motive Division GP38 and GP40 diesel locomotives. New numbers. GP38: Norfolk Southern (thoroughbred scheme, two numbers) and RJ Corman (red, silver, and white scheme). GP40: Baltimore & Ohio (blue and yellow) and Southern Pacific (speed lettering). New paint schemes. GP38: Conrail (American Revolution Bicentennial scheme in one road number, blue with white sill stripe in […]
More Wednesday morning rail news: San Francisco Muni to resume service on parts of two lines, but underground routes to remain closed San Francisco Muni will resume light rail service on one line later this month, and add another line in January, but the underground portion will remain closed into spring 2021. The San Francisco Chronicle […]
Still more Monday morning rail news: Study planned of Dubuque-Rockford rail service A Dubuque, Iowa, group is planning to contract for a study to restore rail passenger service between Dubuque and Rockford, Ill., once a proposed Chicago-Rockford service is revived. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports the committee of government and economic officials from Dubuque […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation will acquire regional Pan Am Railways in a deal that will redraw the railroad map in New England. CSX, already the dominant freight railroad in the region, will extend its reach into Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, as well as to Saint John, New Brunswick, via Pan Am’s haulage rights […]
FORD, Ontario — The Ontario Southland Railway has made two moves of note for rail photographers, returning RS18s to service on the railroad’s St. Thomas Subdivision and repainting SW1200 No. 1245, which becomes the first such locomotive to wear OSR livery. The pair of RS18s are in action on the division for the first time […]
Top executives from Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern last week touted the industry’s growth prospects and the ways they are working to make railroads better able to compete against trucks. Their remarks, made at the RailTrends 2020 conference, came a day after consulting firm Oliver Wyman released a survey that showed […]
More Monday morning rail news: With COVID-19 upswing, restart of VIA service in Western Canada not certain VIA Rail Canada plans to restart service on the route of the Canadian between Vancouver, British Columbia and Winnipeg, Manitoba, are continuing, but are not final, the Winnipeg Free Press reports. The plans to resume service on Dec. […]
Thursday morning news on railroad awards and other recognition: CN, CSX, CP named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index Canadian National, CSX Transportation, and Canadian Pacific have been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which measures companies on environmental, social, governance, and economic critiera. CN says in a news release that it is its 12th […]
