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Employees of Motive Power Resources, Inc. celebrate the completion of the company’s first locomotive overhaul in Minooka, Ill. Motive Power Resources, Inc. MINOOKA, Ill. — Motive Power Resources, Inc., has completed its first locomotive overhaul at its shop complex in Minooka. The rebuilt EMD SD38 locomotive features new on-board preventative maintenance technologies, rebuilt mechanics and […]
A Connecticut Department of Transportation GP40 leads a westbound Shore Line East train at Clinton, Conn. Scott Hartley MT. VERNON, Ill. — National Railway Equipment will overhaul six Connecticut Department of Transportation GP40-2H locomotives, according to an NRE press release. The release states that NRE will produce over 90 percent of the locomotive content in […]
Host Drew Halverson, along with pals Mike, Charlie, and KJ, conclude their Great Lakes gallop, chasing Canadian Pacific Rwy. trains along Northern Ontario’s picturesque Lake Superior shoreline. Though less harried than other routes, the action on CP’s Heron Bay and Nipigon Subdivisions between Thunder Bay and Marathon, Ontario, keeps Drew and The Crew hopping and […]
LOS ANGELES — The sale of bankrupt Pacific Imperial Railroad assets with a potential intermodal connection to Mexico is moving forward as court proceedings continue in California. On March 10 a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the sale of track leases and development rights on the Pacific Imperial’s Desert Line to International Transportation Association LLC. […]
CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and Trains Magazine are offering the first opportunity to photograph newly rebuilt 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 with a freight train in a special three-day event in September. On Sept. 26 to 28, the locomotive from 1949 will pull 14 to 18 freight cars, stopping at several locations on the […]
Canadian National SD60F No. 5542 as seen at Stillwell, Ind., in 2009 is among the list of cowl units now retired or set to be scrapped. Greg Mross CHICAGO — The ranks of operating cowl locomotives on class I railroads is thinning once again, as Canadian National and Canadian Pacific purge additional locomotives from their […]
A Montana Rail Link local with a GP35 running backward (long hood forward) rolls along the Jefferson River west of Sappington, Mont. Tom Danneman Q In the 2010 movie, “Unstoppable,” movie makers create a lot of drama about running a locomotive backward at high speed. How capable are road and switch engines of operating in […]
A CSX conductor holds onto a boxcar during a reverse shove in Thurmond, W.Va., in the winter of 2009. Chase Gunnoe JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation workers are now permitted to step on and step off moving equipment while switching freight cars on the railroad’s system. In an employee document obtained by Trains News Wire, […]
Canadian Pacific’s Bensenville Yard as seen from the window of a commercial flight that just took off from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in September 2015. Chris Guss CHICAGO — Canadian Pacific is embroiled in a high-stakes battle with Illinois officials over use of the railroad’s vitally important yard next to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Now that E. Hunter Harrison is calling the shots at CSX Transportation headquarters, he faces the same daunting problem that former CEO Michael Ward had to grapple with: How to replace nearly $2 billion in coal revenue that vanished over the past five years and is likely gone for good. Ward’s answer […]
Join Trains Magazine Assistant Editor Brian Schmidt for a day trackside at West Chicago, Ill., in July 2016. We’ll see Canadian National and Union Pacific freight action, along with ubiquitous Metra commuter trains. We’ll also look at JB Tower, which guards the junction of the two freight carriers. […]
DURANGO, Colo. — Iowa Pacific attorneys claim the company that licenses Polar Express trains in the U.S. authorized other railroads to use the Polar Express name too close to Iowa Pacific’s own railroad operations. Iowa Pacific’s claim is part of its response to a Jan. 11 lawsuit filed by Rail Events Inc. in Colorado District […]
