New York & Atlantic Railway’s Fresh Pond Yard, as seen from a cab of an NY&A locomotive. The MTA is funding a study of passenger service on the current freight-only Bay Ridge branch served by the NY&A. That line uses the bridge at center. TRAINS: David Lassen The MTA will study the possibility of passenger […]
The layout at a glance Name: St. Louis Junction Layout designer: John Schindler Scale: HO (1:87.1) Size: 30 x 60 feet Prototype: BNSF Ry., CSX, Norfolk Southern, Terminal RR Association of St. Louis, and Union Pacific Locale: St. Louis area Era: 2010 Style: multi-deck walk-in Mainline run: 275 feet Minimum radius: 32″ Minimum turnout: no. […]
An unusual, short, BNSF Railway train heads south on the Joint Line between Denver and Pueblo, Colo. Trains Staff A version of this article was originally published in the November 2015 issue of Trains. 1 NORTH PLATTE, NEB. The world’s largest yard merits a spike-shaped observation tower. It covers more than 2,800 acres of land. 2 […]
HO scale locomotives General Electric ES44AC diesel locomotive. BNSF Ry. (Heritage III in five road numbers, one number with primer repairs, one number with silver plow, and two numbers with replacement Nathan K3LA air horn), Canadian Pacific (as delivered in two numbers, with Hi-Ad trucks and Positive Train Control antennas in four numbers), and Union […]
Norfolk Southern SD80MAC locomotives are parked at Altoona, Pa., during a business downturn in 2009. NS is looking to sell all 29 of the units. Dan Cupper Following its recent auction of locomotives, including its four Executive F units, Norfolk Southern is continuing to pare its fleet of units that are oddballs, old, or both. […]
Bob Johnston NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Extending Illinois-sponsored trains from Carbondale, Ill., to Memphis, Tenn., and establishing a route between Nashville and Atlanta were ideas suggested by an Amtrak representiative to a Tennessee legislative committee this week. As first reported in the Nashville Tennessean, Amtrak Senior Director of Government Affairs Ray Lang’s appearance Tuesday before the […]
WASHINGTON — Attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia have come out against a Trump administration proposal to allow the movement of liquified natural gas by rail. Last year, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the Federal Railroad Administration began to seek public comment on the proposal to move LNG […]
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Less than six months after a group of coal miners blocked a coal train in Kentucky in protest of unpaid wages, another group of allegedly unpaid miners have blocked yet another coal train. On Monday, Quest Energy coal miners, claiming they have not been paid by the company in three weeks, blocked […]
A conductor and engineer pose for a photo on CSX Transportation GP38-2 No. 6237 on July 4, 2019. Joe Kohnen WASHINGTON – For the first time since the government began tracking employment statistics in the 1940s, the number of people employed by railroads has dipped below 200,000. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has industry-specific […]
A GE-built ES44AH leads a westbound CSX Transportation freight through Palmer, Mass., where new signal hardware has been installed to replace Conrail-era signals. Brian Solomon CORONADO, Calif. – The advent of positive train control is bringing some unanticipated benefits to railroad signals and communications departments. So said representatives of BNSF Railway, and Canadian National, CSX […]
CORONADO, Calif. — If there’s a trend in this year’s Class I capital plans — at least as they’re being presented at the National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association Conference — it’s that the railroads are keeping the nature of those plans closer to the vest than they have at previous conferences. Dollar figures for […]
Analysts expect fourth quarter earnings to fall at four of the six publicly traded Class I railroads as cost cutting, rate increases, and share buybacks were not enough to offset the impact of traffic declines. On average, earnings per share at the six publicly traded railroads will fall by 1%, according to consensus estimates by […]
