Incoming Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson Delta Air Lines WASHINGTON — Although incoming Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson made a name for himself in the airline industry, he comes from a railroad family. His father, Hale, was an office worker for the Santa Fe in his native Texas. The family followed railroad work from Galveston to Dallas […]
Magazine: Trains Magazine
Indiana Rail Road petitions to discontinue trackage rights on former Monon line NEWSWIRE
Portions of an Indiana Rail Road map show the short line (in red) and CSX Transportation line (in blue.) Indiana Rail Road officials say they’d like to abandon their rights to operate over tracks between Bedford and New Albany, Ind. Indiana Rail Road website INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Rail Road has petitioned the Surface Transportation […]
CSX dispatchers to soon return to Jacksonville NEWSWIRE
An eastbound CSX coal train passes a refinery near Catlettsburg, Ky., on the railroad’s Big Sandy Subdivision. The eastern Kentucky route was once dispatched by Huntington Division dispatchers in nearby Huntington, W.Va., but is now managed by the railroad’s Louisville Division offices in Kentucky. Soon, this route will be managed by Jacksonville-based dispatchers. Chase Gunnoe […]
C&O SD40 headed for Virginia museum NEWSWIRE
C&O EMD SD40 No. 7534 outside of CSX’s Huntington locomotive shops after being repainted in late May and early June. Joseph M. Rosenthal CLIFTON FORGE, Va. — CSX Transportation is in the process of moving Chesapeake & Ohio EMD SD40 No. 7534 from Huntington, W.Va., to its new home at the C&O Heritage Center in […]
Model Railroader, June 2017
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Trains, June 2017
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611 owners say the locomotive is ready to ramble NEWSWIRE
Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 is seen at the North Carolina Transportation Museum prior to its departure for Roanoke in May 2015. Officials with the Virginia Museum of Transportation say they’d like to work with Amtrak to take the locomotive on excursions on passenger routes in the East. David J. Stewart ROANOKE, Va. — […]
CP moves historic 4-4-0 to Calgary headquarters NEWSWIRE
CALGARY — Canadian Pacific moved an historic 4-4-0 locomotive over the weekend from downtown Calgary to its corporate headquarters on the southeast edge of the city. Locomotive No. 29 had been on display outside its corporate headquarters at Gulf Canada Square in downtown Calgary since the 1990s. In 2012, the railroad moved its offices out […]
CSX reduces workforce at Huntington locomotive shops NEWSWIRE
CSX’s Huntington locomotive shops repair and rebuild EMD and some GE locomotives. The facility is located on the railroad’s ex- Chesapeake & Ohio main line in West Virginia. Chase Gunnoe HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — CSX Transportation is furloughing nearly 70 workers at its locomotive repair shops in Huntington, NBC affiliate WSAZ-TV reports. The reduction in workforce […]
Taking Care of Business: Morristown & Erie Railway, Part 2
If you enjoyed the first episode of Taking Care of Business featuring Morristown & Erie Railway crews, just wait ’til you see the second! In this exclusive, contributing editor Charlie Conway continues capturing real railroad operation, and its challenges, as work proceeds throughout a day on the rails! […]
Big Steam is Back
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Bucyrus Railcar Repair expands with former crane shop acquisiton NEWSWIRE
The Bucyrus Railcar team in August 2016. Brian Schmidt BUCYRUS, Ohio – Bucyrus Railcar Repair LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cathcart Rail Holdings, has expanded its flagship Bucyrus repair facility by acquiring the adjacent facility and assets of the former American & Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. American & Ohio recently relocated operations to Duluth, Minn., […]