NEW YORK — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced completion of its ExpressRail Port Jersey facility, the last piece of a $600-million project to build dedicated rail facilities for each of the port’s major container terminals. The project connects the Port Jersey facility, operated by Global Container Terminals Bayonne, to […]
CSX 911 and 1776 will add to the fire truck festival at the N.C. Transportation Museum Saturday. Chris Anderson SPENCER, N.C. — Commemorative locomotives from CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway are set to meet for the first time at an event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer this weekend. The museum says […]
Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Florida East Coast have launched interline domestic intermodal service connecting California, Dallas, and Chicago with central Florida. The service, which launched today, uses the FEC terminal in Titusville, Fla., about 40 miles east of Orlando, Fla. UP handles both private and EMP containers between its terminals in […]
ScaleTrains.com N scale GE C39-8 diesel The model has many prototype-specific details, including a retrofitted vertical handrail on the end of the long hood. For the first time in N scale, a General Electric C39-8 is available as a ready-to-run plastic model. Produced by ScaleTrains.com as part of the firm’s Rivet Counter series, the N […]
This 2017 view looking south at Dolton shows a northbound Hoosier State passenger train, then operated by Iowa Pacific, on the Union Pacific line. The lead locomotive is on the CSX Transportation line while the second locomotive is on the Indiana Harbor Belt line. Marshall W. Beecher CHICAGO – More than $19 million in federal […]
A Metra train leaves Big Timber Road west of Elgin in 2014. A connection will be built to Union Pacific rails to Rockford in the foreground Bob Johnston CHICAGO – Although Illinois lawmakers and newly-elected Gov. J. B. Pritzker, a Democrat, enacted the state’s first infrastructure capital spending legislation in a decade [see “Illinois passes […]
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board has released it preliminary report on an employee fatality at a CSX Transportation yard in Chattanooga, Tenn. According to the report, on April 13, 2019, about 5:40 p.m., a CSX mechanical employee was struck and killed by a remote-control locomotive, operating as train Y292-13, that was being used […]
NORFOLK, Va. – While presenting to shortline and regional railroad executives at the Norfolk Southern short line marketing meeting in Norfolk on Tuesday, CEO James A. Squires says there are three things that have to happen before the rail industry can expect one-person crews. “First, the technology. The technology’s got to be there.” With positive […]
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific, which has been pruning intermodal lanes as it shifts to a Precision Scheduled Railroading operating model, has launched more frequent intermodal service between Denver, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles. “Union Pacific is expanding the frequency of service in the Denver/Salt Lake City to Los Angeles corridor in order to […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP38-2 diesel locomotive. Burlington Northern (Pacific Pride II in one road number, as-delivered scheme in three numbers, and 1990s scheme in one number); Conrail (as-delivered scheme in three numbers, with white sill in two numbers, and “Quality” and Operation Lifesaver schemes in one number each); Elgin, Joliet & Eastern (post-delivery […]
Crowds greet a New Orleans-Jacksonville, Fla., inspection train at Mobile, Ala., on Feb 18, 2016, at the former site of the Amtrak station where the Sunset Limited last stopped in 2005. Most Mobile port trackage and CSX’s main Mobile yard east of this station would not be materially impacted by Mobile-New Orleans trains to the […]
A number of factors are behind the broad decline in North American rail traffic this year, Class I railroad executives say. But they expect traffic to rebound in the second half of the year, the executives told investor conferences this week even as two railroads lowered their volume outlooks for the year. Among the factors […]
