MONTREAL — Mario Péloquin will become the new president and CEO of VIA Rail Canada as of June 12, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced Tuesday. Péloquin becomes VIA’s fourth CEO in four years, following Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, Cynthia Garneau, and Martin Landry, who had been CEO since May 2022. Péloquin spent little more than a year […]
CAMBRIDGE, Ontario — No injuries were reported after 14 cars of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train derailed today (May 17) near Cambridge, CTV News reports. Robert Shantz, fire chief of the Township of North Dumfries, told CTV that his department had been released from the scene after it was determined no hazardous materials were […]
The North Carolina Transportation Museum offers site tours around the ex-Southern Railway steam locomotive repair facility by an on-site train ride using vintage equipment. Choices When the museum is open, there are always self-guided exhibits to see. On select days, year around train rides around the 60-acre facility are offered, departing from the 1898 Barber […]
The Western & Atlantic Railroad locomotive Texas, restored to its ca. 1886 appearance, anchors the Atlanta History Center’s railroads exhibit—Locomotion: Railroads and the Making of Atlanta. Founded as a railroad terminus, today Atlanta is the largest metropolitan area in the Southeast. Choices The Atlanta History Center’s railroads exhibit occupies a prominent, but relatively small, portion […]
Based out of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, the Agawa Canyon Tour train draws visitors from around the world for a 114-mile ride into the hardwood forests of Northern Ontario. The one-day tour train departs from the former Algoma Central Railway station in downtown Sault Ste. Marie. Choices The tour train takes you to Agawa Canyon […]
WASHINGTON — Chicago commuter operator Metra has become the third entity to sue over the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. In a single-page filing with the board, Metra notified the STB today (Wednesday, May 17) that it had initiated a suit on May 12 in the U.S. Court of […]
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has asked the Surface Transportation Board to take several steps to improve rail service. “Unfortunately, while rail service has improved from its worst levels last year, it remains inadequate and unreliable for many agricultural shippers. There is more work to be done,” Vilsack wrote in a May 12 letter […]
California holds a rich railroad heritage. There’s the Central Pacific building over Donner Pass and the Southern Pacific’s cab-forward locomotives battling the same grade. Narrow-gauge logging lines and restored interurbans. Depots of all shapes and sizes just waiting for you to explore them. I often get asked: “Bob, I’m going to (insert state here). What […]
The Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad operates over an 11-mile section of the former Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad, between Boone and Wolf, Iowa, a former junction with the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. The scenic highlight of the trip is the Bass Point Creek High Bridge, a 156-foot-tall steel bridge spanning Bass […]
Grade crossing installations take many forms but nearly always include the railroad symbol most familiar to the public — the highway/railroad grade crossing warning sign. Crossbuck is the correct term for the X-shaped sign located just before a road reaches railroad tracks. These signs read RAILROAD CROSSING in the U.S. and are lettered with similar words, […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National envisions the day when its main line to the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, will host 50 trains per day. “Our capacity right now on that line is about 25 trains a day,” CN CEO Tracy Robinson told an investor conference on Wednesday. “We’re running a little bit below that […]
Trains LIVE — Walk through Fire — 5-17-2023 — It seemed as if the entire world had been turned upside down. On Feb. 24, 1978, that is what it felt like in the small town of Waverly, Tenn. Two days before, 23 cars of a 96-car Louisville & Nashville Railroad freight train derailed and piled […]
