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CSX has closed Locust Point Yard in Baltimore. Sol Tucker BALTIMORE — CSX Transportation has closed its yard in Locust Point in southeastern Baltimore, Md. effective 11:59 p.m., April 30, 2018. The yard sits adjacent to Interstate 95 just west of the Fort McHenry Tunnel, and also hosts a Maryland Rail Commuter locomotive and train […]
En route to Duluth, Milwaukee Road No. 261 passes through Hinckley, Minn., on June 4, 2016. A similar trip for this June has been cancelled. Steve Glischinski MINNEAPOLIS – The Friends of the 261 has informed ticketholders it was forced to cancel its planned positive train control fundraising trip from Minneapolis to the Lake Superior Railroad […]
New England Central SD40-2 No. 3405 leads a welded rail train through Willimantic, Conn., on May 3, 2018. Scott A. Hartley WILLIMANTIC, Conn. — The southern 55 miles of Genesee & Wyoming’s New England Central Railroad will begin to handle industry-standard 286,000-pound freight cars later this year, thanks to track improvements made possible by a […]
Spectators enjoy the sight of Nickel Plate Road 765 at Joliet, Ill., in June 2017. Trains: Jim Wrinn FORT WAYNE, Ind. — It’s clear signals for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society’s Joliet Rocket. Ticket sales for the excursion from Joliet, Ill., to downtown Chicago will begin at 6 p.m., May 9 and 6 p.m., […]
WASHINGTON – The Surface Transportation Board is seeking public comment on a long-simmering dispute between Pan Am Railways and the Milford-Bennington Railroad, a short line that operates on a portion of the former Boston & Maine Railroad’s Hillsboro Branch between Nashua and Hillsborough, N.H. The Milford-Bennington Railroad shuttles carloads of rock for about 5 miles from […]
A factory image of Linsinger’s SF02T-FS rail milling machine. It is similar to one that Rhomberg Sersa and LINMAG expect to import to North America by the end of 2019. The self-propelled machine is designed for transit operations and is expected to operate on 90 to 95-percent of U.S. and Canadian commuter and transit routes. […]
CN SD60Fs meet train 393 as they move eastward at Aldershot West, Burlington, Ont., on May 5, 2006. Greg McDonnell Q I recently saw Canadian National Railway diesel No. 5553 switching a cut of cars in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was unable to determine who built this locomotive. It had six axles and no running […]
The Crescent stops at Meridian, Miss., a station that is about to lose its agent. Bob Johnston WASHINGTON — In another cost-cutting move, “made jointly by the operating divisions and the Long Distance Service Line,” says spokesman Marc Magliari, Amtrak will eliminate ticket agents at 15 stations serving seven long distance routes as early as […]
A Siemens Charger locomotive leads a northbound Amtrak Hiawatha into Milwaukee. Altamont Corridor Express has become the latest agency to order Chargers. TRAINS: David Lassen STOCKTON, Calif. — The San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission has ordered four Siemens Charger locomotives for use on the Altamont Corridor Express commuter service. The first of the locomotives, to […]
A BNSF train rolls through Saginaw, Texas. Hayley Enoch SAGINAW, Texas — The Dallas-Fort Worth area’s premier annual train-watching event will return in 2018. The North Texas Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society will host the 13th annual “24 Hours @ Saginaw” between 7 p.m. on Friday, May 25, and 7 p.m. on Saturday, […]
CARY, Ill. — Metra’s board has approved plans for a new station for this community on the commuter railroad’s Union Pacific Northwest Line, the Chicago Tribune reports. The new station will solve a long-standing flaw with the building it will replace. Currently, the station is on the opposite side of the tracks from where passengers […]
An Ontario Northland worker uses a portable wheel lathe to true a locomotive wheel in the field. Buying the lathe was one of several ways the regional railroad and freight operator seeks to improve service and reliability for customers. Ontario Northland Ontario Northland CEO Corina Moore Ontario Northland WAUKESHA, Wis. — Corina Moore is responsible […]
