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When we first met Charlie, his temporary office was located at a metro Seattle airport. Nowadays, he’s happily situated in a new downtown waterfront office with all of the essential creature comforts – including a rooftop view of BNSF freight, Amtrak passenger, and Sound Transit commuter trains. It’s enough to make Drew and many other railfans […]
ST. ALBANS, Vt. — An Amtrak inspection trip ran today from St. Albans to Montreal over the normally freight only Swanton Subdivision of both New England Central and Canadian National. Montrealer service ended in 1995 and more than two dozen rail and government officials were aboard the consist of Amtrak P42 101, Amcafe 43371 and […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia jury says that CSX Transportation is partially to blame in the death of Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant who was killed by a train while trespassing on a railroad bridge in Georgia, the Associated Press reports. Jones was part of a film crew who was on its first day […]
A Breda A650 heavy rail vehicle from Los Angeles is among the first of dozens of cars Talgo will rebuild in Milwaukee, Wis., shops. Kevin Keefe MILWAUKEE — Spanish train manufacturer Talgo has entered the U.S. passenger-car overhaul market with a contract to rebuild transit cars for Los Angeles, using a plant it formerly occupied […]
An ammeter in a GP40-2 with the short-time rating plate below. Note the duplicate time chart listed on the gauge as well. Chris Guss Q Why is it that a D.C. traction locomotive can stay below its continuous full-power minimum speed limit for only 30 minutes while an A.C. traction unit can grind away in […]
Amtrak’s southbound ‘Saluki’ rolls past the Canadian National yard into Champaign, Ill., in Feb., 2015. Bob Johnston ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a U.S. Surface Transportation Board attempt to provide metrics which measure host railroad on-time performance. The action follows a U.S. Supreme Court finding that […]
A conductor watches the reverse move of a pair of locomotives about to couple onto a freight train on CSX’s former Chesapeake & Ohio main line in West Virginia. Chase Gunnoe JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation is continuing to make changes to its operational structure, especially through a series of recent operating rule abolishments. On […]
Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of EMD E9s will supply power to next month’s Whistle Stop train through Nebraska. Union Pacific LINCOLN, Neb. – Union Pacific’s streamlined E9s and a fleet of passenger cars will tour the state of Nebraska early next month as part of a whistle stop tour celebrating Nebraska’s sesquicentennial. Elected officials and […]
WASHINGTON – Senators used words like “concerned,” and “dismayed” as they considered the Trump administration’s proposed budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation during a hearing July 13. Members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on transportation were looking at an overall budget that’s been cut $2.4 billion from the 2017 DOT budget. If they were […]
Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 11 leads a photo freight special in May 2013. Chase Gunnoe CASS, W.Va. – Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 11 will return to steam the weekend of July 15-16 after being out of service for nearly three years. The locomotive’s renovations include a Federal Railroad Administration mandated Form IV overhaul […]
A lower priority train waits out the passage of a group of higher priority trains rolling through a work zone near North East, Pa., in August 2010. Marcus W. Stevens JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The implementation of precision scheduled railroading continues to drive operational improvements at CSX Transportation, even if the results are not reflected in […]
Saginaw Timber No. 2, lettered for subsequent owner Polson Logging, makes a test run at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in May 2016. Ken Hojnacki GARIBALDI, Ore. – In a poetic twist to the strained return of a well-known logging 2-8-2, privately owned Saginaw Timber Co. No. 2 will return to the Pacific Northwest, where it […]
