Introducing the all-new Trains.com Forum! Become a part of our Community! >>VISIT NOW
Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 No. 611 pulls a photographers’ special at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in May 2015. Jim Wrinn If a locomotive can mend broken hearts, Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 does so with caressing steam. Fans of the locomotive have long said this railroad-built Class J is […]
Norfolk Southern No. 4000 is a AC44C6M locomotive converted from No. 8799 a D9-40C unit built by GE in 1995. To recognize its conversion, the unit sports a new blue and light gray paint scheme. Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southern Nos. 4000 and 4001 pose outside the paint shop in Chattanooga, Tenn., for their first portrait together. […]
CSX No. 3251 is a GE-built ET44AC. James D. Moore Locomotive builders greeted 2015 with a fleet of engines ready, or being tested for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Tier 4 standards. The standards were announced in 2008 with a goal of reducing particle emissions by 90 percent and nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions […]
No. 611 pulls a photographers’ special at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in May 2015. Jim Wrinn ROANOKE, Va. – Norfolk Southern says the railroad has “fulfilled the program’s goals, and we are scaling back now” in regards to its vastly popular 21st Century Steam Program. In an article published in The Roanoke Times on […]
[…]
[…]
Dan Ranger CHAMA, N.M. — Steam locomotive expert, tourist railroad manager, and railway preservation advocate Dan Ranger died Friday at his home in Chama, N.M., He was 77. Ranger was executive director of the Tourist Railway Association Inc. in the late 1990s and 2000s, and had retired as general manager of the Cumbres & Toltec […]
Former Illinois Central SD40-3 No. 6251 leads a Canadian National train near Stewart, Minn., earlier this year. Canadian Pacific’s bid for Norfolk Southern includes provisions for a voting trust of a type last used when CN bought IC in the late 1990s. Matt Krause When Norfolk Southern’s board of directors formally rejected Canadian Pacific’s $28 […]
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. — New in-cab locomotive technology designed to identify communications over cellular frequencies is now working on U.S. railroads, Wi-Tronix officials tell Trains News Wire. The Illinois-based company has deployed its “Mobile Phone Detection System” on at least one Class I railroad and one California short line railroad. The company could not disclose which […]
Canadian Pacific slightly sweetened its bid for Norfolk Southern today, offering NS shareholders what amounts to an insurance policy on the stock price of the combined company while the merger is under regulatory review. “We are increasing our offer to NS shareholders by as much as $3.4 billion through the addition of a contingent value […]
Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern networks with most major routes shown. Trains: Rick Johnson CALGARY, Alberta — Bill Ackman, Canadian Pacific’s activist shareholder, says in a conference call today that E. Hunter Harrison is the “greatest railroader of all time” and that he is the premium Norfolk Southern shareholders would receive regardless of whether a […]
The Trains Presents video series takes you to Virginia to examine operations on Norfolk Southern’s now-closed former Virginian Railway main line. Learn more about this mountain railroad, only from Trains! […]
