CHIAGO — Chicago’s LaSalle Street Station, once a famed major terminal for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and New York Central railroads but now only a bare-bones facility serving Metra commuters, will undergo a $2.95-million renovation, officials announced. On March 26, work will begin to replace the station’s concourse and several pillars, the first […]
For their final two days in Alberta, Canada, Drew and The Crew find new places and perspectives for railfanning over Yellowhead Pass. Take a ride with Mike and KJ aboard a VIA Rail Canada regional run, before rejoining Drew (and some of his grizzly friends) for one last dash along CN’s Edson and Albreda Subdivisions. Don’t […]
Newark N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is now only the second sitting governor to address a meeting of NJ Transit’s board of directors. He had good news to deliver on Wednesday: He wants to add taxpayers dollars to the beleaguered agency’s budget, to the tune of $242 million. “I did not come here […]
A sleeping berth shown set for feet first in the direction of travel on an Amtrak long-distance train. Bob Johnston Q I previously understood that the safest position to sleep while traveling by train was with feet first, but the past Amtrak trips I took had the bed set up head first. Is there an […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Pikes Peak Cog Railway’s operator says there is a chance that the famed rack railroad of the Rockies will close for good. Jack Damioli, president and CEO of The Broadmoor hotel, which owns the 8.9-mile rail line, tells the Colorado Springs Gazette that after months of winter maintenance the railroad could […]
Take a tour of the new Raleigh, N.C., station, which opened in May 2018. The facility serves both Amtrak long-distance and state-supported trains, but it’s designed to accommodate commuter and high speed rail services in the future. […]
An outbound Metra train pulled by F40PHM-2 No. 205 meets an inbound, with F40PH-3 No. 119 pushing, at Lisle, Ill., in August 2015. No. 205 was damaged in a derailment while en route for rebuilding in Georgia. TRAINS: David Lassen A Metra locomotive on its way to Georgia for rebuilding was damaged in a CSX […]
Union Pacific C6044AC No. 7342 had finished its rebuilding and was operating on GE’s test track in Erie, Pa., on Jan. 11. Stephan Koenig OMAHA, Neb. – Union Pacific is the latest Class I railroad to begin rebuilding its older General Electric locomotive fleet with the builder. The railroad has selected 20 C6044ACs for the […]
MONOWI, Neb. – The town of Monowi recently gained fame for a singular reason. According to the 2010 U.S. Census Monowi is the only incorporated town, village, or city in America with a population of one, and several news outlets have been running stories on the town, centering on Elsie Eiler who serves as the […]
CHICAGO — Union Pacific is seeking monetary damages from a switching short line which UP contends failed to properly maintain tracks it leases from the Class I railroad at its Centex Industrial Park in Elk Grove Village, Ill. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, UP alleges that the Chicago Terminal Railroad […]
Former Great Northern and Burlington Northern SD7 No. 6008 works at a grain elevator in Litchfield, Minn. The locomotive has been donated to the Minnesota Transportation Museum. Steve Glischinski ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Transportation Museum has acquired former Great Northern Railway SD7 No. 558. Cargill, Inc. donated the locomotive, one of 23 SD7s […]
A fresh BNSF Railway crew handling westbound stacks charges up the 10-mile grade from Belen, N.M., to Dalies on March 3, 2018. On the left, preliminary work continues on adding a third main line to this section of the Gallup Subdivision. Meanwhile, an eastbound vehicle train in the distance is first in line waiting as […]
