Canadian Pacific has announced the 2019 schedule for its U.S. and Canada Holiday Trains. The 2017 train is shown in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. TRAINS: David Lassen CALGARY, Alberta — Menards, N.Y.; Caledonia, Wis.; and Ossian, Iowa, will be new stops this year for the Canadian Pacific Holiday train, which announced its 2019 schedule and performers […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive. Canadian Pacific (with beaver herald in one road number, without in three), CIT Rail Leasing (blue, three numbers), Farmrail (tan and brown, three numbers), Huron & Eastern (RailAmerica scheme, four numbers), Norfolk Southern (“Training First Responders” scheme, one number), and RJ Corman (red and gray, three numbers). […]
Video by Chris Guss A relief crew has just boarded Canadian Pacific Railway No. 7015, leading a deadhead business train bound for Kansas City at Marquette, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 2019. The 7015 is one of 60 SD70ACUs being rebuilt by Progress Rail in Kentucky, using the railroad’s stored SD9043MACs. Ten of the rebuilds will […]
Wall Street analysts expect Class I railroad earnings to rise an average of 7% for the third quarter as a combination of rate hikes, cost-cutting, efficiency gains, and share buybacks offsets the impact of traffic declines at five of the six publicly traded systems. CSX Transportation, which kicks off the quarterly earnings reports on Oct. […]
BRUNSWICK, Mo. — Service interrupted due to a bridge out on Norfolk Southern between Kansas City and Moberly, Mo., is expected to resume in three to four weeks, according to NS officials. Heavy rains and debris washed away the bridge over the Grand River west of Brunswick October 1 on the NS Kansas City District. […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP7 diesel locomotive. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (black-and-gray scheme with “Everywhere West” slogan); Chicago & North Western (repaint in two road numbers and passenger service with “Route of the Streamliners” slogan); Denver & Rio Grande Western (orange-and-black scheme with Flying Grande lettering, four numbers); Maine Central (gold-and-green scheme, four numbers); […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The spread of Precision Scheduled Railroading inflicts short-term pain on shortline railroads but offers the potential for long-term gain, Michael Miller, president of Genesee & Wyoming’s North American operations, told a shipper conference last week. The short-term impact includes unexpected service changes, the bunching of customer traffic, and the handling of larger […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A common theme woven through several presentations at a regional rail shippers’ conference this week involved a key question: Are railroads still relevant? The world increasingly expects transportation that’s fast, reliable, and easy. Railroads are slow, unreliable, and complicated. As a result, they’ve lost market share to trucks and often aren’t even […]
CSX 4317, a former Reading Co. GP39-2 shown at right, works at Yeoman Yard in Tampa, Fla., in March 2017. It now resides at the Reading museum in Hamburg, Pa. Scott A. Hartley HAMBURG, Pa. – A former Reading GP-39-2, one of the last new locomotives delivered to that railroad just months before the Conrail […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Although 2019 is shaping up as a disappointing year for railroad volume, it’s been a downright disastrous year in trucking, Cowen & Co. transportation analyst Jason Seidl told a rail shipper conference on Wednesday. “Things are bad,” Seidl says. More trucking companies filed for bankruptcy in the first half of 2019 than […]
Download this free 25-page PDF for a collection of thrilling railfan stories. Railfans reminisce on unforgettable cab rides they had with the Pennsylvania Railroad, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, Illinois Central Railroad, and Grand Trunk Western Railroad. […]
Wm. K. Walthers Inc. HO scale Alco PA and PB diesel locomotives HO scale locomotives Alco PA and PB diesel locomotives. New York Central; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Delaware & Hudson (PA only, four road numbers [two each in direct current and Digital Command Control]); New York, New Haven & Hartford (PA only, four […]
