JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation today (Thursday, Feb. 1) announced it had reached agreement with four additional unions to provide paid sick leave to employees, extending that coverage to an additional 600 workers. Unions involved are SMART-TD conductors/trainmen (C&O); SMART-TD yardmasters; the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, and Carrolton Road-Transportation Communications Union-represented engineers, yardmen, and maintenance […]
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WASHINGTON — Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman says he’s concerned about reports that an activist investor plans to launch a proxy fight to oust Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw. “Is this an investor whose goal it is to reinstate the bad old days when the marching orders to the C-suite were to cut, […]
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BOYERTOWN, Pa. — The former private car of steel magnate Charles Schwab, the 1917 Pullman-built solarium-sleeper Loretto, arrived Wednesday, Jan. 31, at its new home, the Colebrookdale Railroad in southeastern Pennsylvania. It concluded a circuitous 2-day, 250-mile highway journey from the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pa., which had owned it for 48 years. The […]
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WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the leaders of all 13 railroad labor unions today urged Congress to tighten rail safety regulations as the one-year anniversary of the disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, approaches. The Railway Safety Act, introduced in the Senate last spring in the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern hazardous materials […]
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Built by Others is an article series showcasing layouts constructed by modelers using plans and projects from the pages of Model Railroader and its associated products. The Georgia Southern layout originally appeared in the pages of Model Railroader in 2001. Mike Tuminella converted the layout to N scale to better fit the space he had available and made […]
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CALGARY, Alberta – Canadian Pacific Kansas City has become the third Class I railroad to join the RailPulse freight car telematics joint venture. “We are pleased to be a part of RailPulse and to contribute to accelerating adoption of railcar telemetry in North America,” CPKC Chief Marketing Officer John Brooks said in a statement today. […]
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Shortline railroading For many independent shortline operators, staying fiscally sound today means disregarding so much of what was once a winning formula. You know, picking up freight cars at the interchange and delivering them to customers, then dropping off outbounds back at the end of the workday before heading to the barn. If all went […]
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Locomotives & rolling stock Mr. Muffin’s Trains has several custom-run items for sale. The first are MTH 50-foot Waffle Boxcars in two paint schemes with two road numbers each: Louisville & Nashville No. 101635 (20-99372), Louisville & Nashville No. 101640 (20-99373), Milwaukee Road No. 4307 (20-99374, shown), and Milwaukee Road No. 4311 (20-99375). Price: $69.95 […]
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LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska legislation that would require two-person train crews advanced in the state’s legislature on Wednesday, with an amended version passing in the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee by a 35-8 vote. LB 31 was introduced last year by state Sen. Mike Jacobson (R-North Platte, Neb.) and establishes penalties of up to $10,000 for […]
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WASHINGTON — After two weeks in negative territory, U.S. weekly rail traffic barely edged into positive ground for the week ending Jan. 27, 2024. Figures from the Association of American Railroads show overall traffic of 467,222 carloads and intermodal units, up 0.7% compared with the same week a year ago. That included 208,131 carloads, down […]
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An activist investor group has taken a $1 billion stake in Norfolk Southern and aims to wrest control of the company’s board and oust CEO Alan Shaw, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal this evening. The investor group, led by Cleveland-based Ancora Holdings, has nominated a slate of directors that includes former […]
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WASHINGTON — Canadian National’s proposed acquisition of the 218-mile Iowa Northern Railway will boost rail competition, divert freight off the highway, and give Iowa shippers broader access to single-line service, CN says in a merger application filed this week with the Surface Transportation Board. CN spent $230 million to acquire the Class III railroad from […]
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