St. Croix Valley No. 1363 works at the Titan Lansing sand plant in North Branch, Minn., on Oct. 8, 2019. Steve Glischinski CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – Take a look along railroad lines in western Wisconsin, and you’ll find evidence of the frac sand boom that’s meant good times for railroads. BNSF Railway serves a plant […]
CHICAGO — More layoffs are coming at Union Pacific as traffic volume continues to fall amid global trade disputes, tougher competition from trucks, and the ongoing slide in coal. By the end of the year, UP expects its workforce to be at least 18% below the levels of the fourth quarter of 2018, Jennifer Hamann, […]
A crew member returns to the locomotive after lining a switch at Canadian Pacific’s yard in Bensenville, Ill. Class I railroads have formally introduced a proposal for one-man crews on road trains. TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — After hinting at it for months, Class I railroads have officially asked that single-person crews be part of […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Reading & Northern (green and yellow), GATX Locomotive Group (blue and black), Providence & Worcester (brown and orange), Kansas City Southern (Southern Belle scheme), and New Hampshire Northcoast (green, black, and yellow). New […]
The downward trend in rail employment continued in October. Surface Transportation Board The total number of rail jobs continues to show a dramatic decline in 2019 compared to the two previous years. Surface Transportation Board WASHINGTON — American railroads shed jobs faster than any other industry in October. The data point, contained in the Bureau […]
A former F40 locomotive converted to a cab car leads a southbound Hiawatha through the Techny interlocking in Northbrook, Ill., on May 23, 2019. Tracks diverging in foreground are used by Canadian Pacific for trains to or from Bensenville Yard west of Chicago. CP won’t allow more round trips until more tracks are added in […]
A Canadian National crude oil trainset passes through River Forest, Ill., on Union Pacific on Sunday, Oct. 27. CN and Canadian Pacific will see an upswing in crude oil traffic following a decision by the province of Alberta to lift quotas on oil production if the oil moves by rail. TRAINS: David Lassen EDMONTON, Alberta […]
WEST GLACIER, Mont. — A coalition of wildlife groups are threatening to sue BNSF Railway over the death of eight federally protected grizzly bears in the mountains of northwest Montana in 2019, the most killed in a single year. The groups allege that the railroad is not doing enough to protect the animals from being […]
Kato USA HO scale Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue and yellow warbonnet) and Burlington Northern (as-delivered scheme). Two road numbers per scheme. Factory-installed Digital Command Control motor and light decoder, handrails, grab irons, and number boards; directional golden-white light-emitting-diode headlights; and […]
Canadian Pacific’s new heritage locomotives make their first revenue run, leading train No. 197 as it departs St. Paul, Minn., at Hoffman Avenue on Oct. 18, 2019. Dan Kwarciany Canadian Pacific train No. 197 arrives at Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis to pick up intermodal traffic on Oct. 18, 2019. Dan Kwarciany ST. PAUL, Minn. – Canadian […]
Tank cars placarded for alcohol bring up the rear of a Canadian Pacific train passing the Elmwood Park, Ill., Metra station. While many flammable materials may be moved by tank car, liquefied natural gas is not currently among them; a Department of Transportation proposal would change that. The tank cars shown are not the type […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway has taken another step to wring more capacity out of its existing intermodal network: This week it launched a day of the week pricing system that aims to smooth peaks and valleys in volume. Currently half of the railroad’s intermodal loads are delivered to terminals between noon on Wednesday […]
