OTTAWA, Ontario — Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau filed legislation on Monday that would mandate the installation of voice and video recorders in locomotive cabs. The recommendation is a response to the February 2012 fatal wreck of a Toronto-bound VIA Rail Canada train in Burlington, Ont. Train 92 was going four times the posted track […]
WalthersMainline HO cylindrical covered hopper A 59-foot cylindrical covered hopper has been added to the WalthersMainline family of HO scale products. The ready-to-run car features an injection-molded plastic body with separate end sheets and one-piece end cages. The underbody is a separate piece with freestanding outlet gates and brake appliances. North of the border. The […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP39-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Burlington Northern (two road numbers); BNSF Ry. (Burlington Northern patchout in two numbers); Delaware & Hudson (blue and yellow and blue with yellow nose in two numbers each); Missouri-Kansas-Texas; and Union Pacific. Four numbers per scheme unless noted. Direct-current model, $179.98; with […]
NEW YORK — For the second time in a decade, the Florida East Coast Railway eluded the grasp of Genesee & Wyoming. Mexican mining company Grupo Mexico won the FEC in March with a $2.1 billion bid, a price that raised eyebrows in the industry. G&W’s bid for the FEC was “not competitive,” CEO Jack […]
NEWPORT, R.I. — Omya, a producer of calcium carbonate that’s an essential ingredient in paper manufacturing, had an expensive problem: It had to resort to using as many as 300 trucks per quarter to ship product from its Vermont plant to paper mills in Maine. The struggling mills, facing long-term declines in paper demand and […]
CSX CEO E. Hunter Harrison Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New CSX Transportation CEO E. Hunter Harrison gave some broad-brush outlines today on his plans to cut costs, streamline operations, and improve service. Wall Street analysts quizzed Harrison for nearly two hours during the railroad’s first-quarter earnings call this morning. While Harrison said many details […]
“We used to hire women in positions set aside for them, such as stenographers. Of course, they never had a chance to develop. We start the boy in at the bottom as office boy and give them a long ladder to climb. Things are changing now. If the women are started at the bottom like […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO Bombardier Transportation ALP-45DP dual-mode locomotive HO scale locomotives Bombardier Transportation ALP-45DP dual-mode locomotive. NJ Transit. Four road numbers. Illuminated, directional light-emitting-diode headlights, ditch lights, and red marker lights; positionable non-functioning pantograph; factory-applied railings, air horn, and antenna; modeler-installed grab irons with drilling template; and Kadee couplers. Direct-current model with 8-pin […]
Host Drew Halverson, along with pals Mike, Charlie, and KJ, conclude their Great Lakes gallop, chasing Canadian Pacific Rwy. trains along Northern Ontario’s picturesque Lake Superior shoreline. Though less harried than other routes, the action on CP’s Heron Bay and Nipigon Subdivisions between Thunder Bay and Marathon, Ontario, keeps Drew and The Crew hopping and […]
Host Drew Halverson, along with pals Mike, Charlie, and KJ, conclude their Great Lakes gallop, chasing Canadian Pacific Rwy. trains along Northern Ontario’s picturesque Lake Superior shoreline. Though less harried than other routes, the action on CP’s Heron Bay and Nipigon Subdivisions between Thunder Bay and Marathon, Ontario, keeps Drew and The Crew hopping and […]
Canadian National SD60F No. 5542 as seen at Stillwell, Ind., in 2009 is among the list of cowl units now retired or set to be scrapped. Greg Mross CHICAGO — The ranks of operating cowl locomotives on class I railroads is thinning once again, as Canadian National and Canadian Pacific purge additional locomotives from their […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Now that E. Hunter Harrison is calling the shots at CSX Transportation headquarters, he faces the same daunting problem that former CEO Michael Ward had to grapple with: How to replace nearly $2 billion in coal revenue that vanished over the past five years and is likely gone for good. Ward’s answer […]
