EAST PALESTINE, Ohio – Norfolk Southern announced Friday that it has reached a “significant milestone” at the sight of the derailment in East Palestine. NS said it has finished excavating and removing contaminated soil beneath the south track at the derailment site. It has excavated and removed more than 25,000 tons of soil and 12 million […]
UNION, Ill. – White Castle restaurants and railroading would not appear to be linked, but volunteers at the Illinois Railway Museum are working to incorporate the famous White Castle facade into a 1950s street scene the museum is recreating. When volunteers realized that the oldest active Chicago-area White Castle restaurant in Whiting, Ind., was closing […]
HAMILTON, Ontario – It turns out that the railroad industry’s emergency advisory sidelining 675 new steel coil cars with suspect wheelsets was a false alarm. In the wake of a March 4 Norfolk Southern derailment in Springfield, Ohio, the Association of American Railroads issued an equipment advisory recommending that the cars, built by National Steel […]
ROCKWOOD, Maine — Three crew members were reported to have suffered minor injuries after a CPKC freight train derailed and caught fire early today (Saturday, April 15) apparently as a result of a track washout, Reuters reports. Maine’s Forest Service said three locomotives and six railcars carrying lumber and electrical wiring derailed north of Rockwood, […]
Clean locomotive Finding a locomotive being washed and cleaned before it went to work left me in awe. As a railroad, one of the ways to give your customers with a good impression is taking care of your locomotives. That was the mantra of the original California Northern Railroad management when it began on cast-off […]
Nova Scotia tourist railroads you must visit include multiple museums relating to the history of the province’s railroad heritage and everything in between. Here’s our list of must-see tourist railroads, museums, and displays — for almost every region in Nova Scotia. Museum of Industry Through artifacts, big and small, the Museum of Industry tells the […]
In the Ask Trains.com compilation for April, Cody is joined by Model Railroader‘s Bryson Sleppy to discuss how trackside detectors transmit defects, which railroad built the CSX line in Chesterton, Indiana, and answer questions such as why some Canadian National cars spell “Canadian” with an E, the fate of Branchline Trains, and why some Electro-Motive […]
Newfoundland tourist railroads you must visit include a restored station to a railroad museum with a preserved collection of narrow-gauge equipment on display and everything in between. Here’s our list of must-see tourist railroads, museums, and displays — for almost every region in Newfoundland. Railway Coastal Museum The Railway Coastal Museum tells the stories of […]
SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Caltrain will reduce weekday service for two weeks beginning Monday, April 17, to accommodate construction and testing for its electrification project. Daily service will be reduced from 104 trains to 82 for the weeks of April 17-21 and April 24-28. Monday through Thursday of those weeks, the last northbound train of […]
NEW HAVEN, Ky. — Louisville & Nashville No. 152, the Kentucky Railway Museum 4-6-2 named the official steam locomotive of the Commonwealth of Kentucky by an act of the Kentucky Legislature, is beginning an overhaul to be returned to operation. The museum has awarded a contract to Next Generation Rail Solutions of Irvine, Ky., to […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s Department of Transportation has signed agreements with agencies in Delaware and Virginia to explore expansion of MARC commuter rail service into those states, Gov. Wes Moore announced Thursday. The agreements are steps toward potential run-through service sought by MARC to Newark, Del., and Alexandria, Va. Discussions with the Delaware Transit Corp. […]
Canadian Pacific Kansas City, the first railroad to link Canada, the U.S., and Mexico, made its debut today and unveiled its new logo and website. Officials from Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern will celebrate the historic merger at a final spike ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m. today at Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Mo., […]
