Aberdeen Carolina & Western E9A CANDOR, N.C. – The Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway has debuted its rebuilt and repainted E9A No. 103 on the “NODA Express Maiden Voyage” (NODA is short for Charlotte’s art and entertainment district in North Davidson). The restored locomotive led a special move from the ACW shops in Candor to […]
BALTIMORE – A proposal to expand Maryland’s MARC Train commuter train service on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor into Delaware and Virginia is slowing moving ahead. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Maryland Transit Administration has signed framework agreements with Delaware Transit Corp. and the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority for the potential future expansion […]
CHICAGO – Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman told a shipper conference that Class I railroad behavior over the past few years – mass layoffs, crew shortages, and poor service – may require a new approach to regulation. “It may be time to say 2023 is not 1980 and we need to rethink some […]
CHICAGO – Union Pacific is suing the Surface Transportation Board because the agency’s approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger didn’t fully protect cross-border competition at the Laredo, Texas, gateway or address the potential for congestion in Houston, UP CEO Lance Fritz told a shipper conference today. “In their approval they identified our concerns […]
TORONTO – On May 19, Metrolinx’ GO Transit announced several new trips on its Lakeshore West Line – including more trains to Niagara Falls. A third round trip from Toronto has been introduced on weekends and holidays to and from Niagara Falls. Until Thanksgiving, weekend, and holiday trips to Niagara Falls will include bike cars, where […]
FORT WORTH, Texas – BNSF Railway has reached new tentative agreements for individual paid sick days with SMART Transportation Division, which includes engineers and conductors. The agreement covers workers on the former Great Northern, Spokane Portland & Seattle, Colorado & Southern, Houston Belt & Terminal, Joint Texas Division, Los Angeles Junction, and some former Santa Fe […]
WASHINGTON – The Surface Transportation Board announced the addition of Justin Broyles from R.J. Corman and Robert (Buck) Rogers from Canadian National to the Board’s Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council (RSTAC). Broyles joins as a small railroad representative, and Mr. Rogers joins as a large railroad representative. The ICC Termination Act of 1995 established RSTAC to advise […]
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two-day investigative hearing in East Palestine, Ohio, on June 22-23, as part of the ongoing investigation into the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern Railway train and subsequent hazardous material release and fires. The investigative hearing, to be held at East Palestine High School beginning at […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Transportation has been recognized by intermodal providers as the top-performing railroad in North America. The “Intermodal Service Scorecard” ranking was compiled by the Journal of Commerce, and assessed performance through the first four months of 2023, the railroad said in a news release. To create the Scorecard, more than 100 shippers and […]
The South Simcoe Railway operates over 4 miles of former Canadian National trackage through the rolling countryside north of Toronto. Excursions are powered by a 1948 diesel locomotive or steam locomotive No. 136, which was built in 1883, as passengers experience vintage travel and learn about the history of the railways that made Canada what […]
The Laupahoehoe Train Museum is located on the Big Island along the Hamakua Heritage Coast north of Hilo on the right-of-way of the narrow-gauge Hilo Railroad, which operated from 1899 until 1946 when it was irreparably damaged by a tsunami. The museum’s educational mission is to preserve, promote and protect the historic, cultural, educational, social, […]
Canada’s pre-eminent trolley museum brings the streetcar era to life with the help of the largest collection of operable streetcars in the country. The Halton County Radial Railway’s streetcars, radial cars, and work cars operate over a rebuilt portion of a long-abandoned interurban railway. Choices Streetcars, such as Toronto Transit Commission No. 2894, travel over […]
