A side view of the short hood end of Combios de Portugal Alco RSC-2 No. 1501 on display in Portugal’s national railway museum. Ralph Spielman A nose-on view of No. 1501. Except for different brakes, buffers, and broad gauge, this is essentially the same locomotive that would have operated in the Midwest in the 1940s […]
PERTH, Australia — Officials with Australian mining corporation Rio Tinto say they’ve successfully operated a driverless train on a 60-mile stretch of tracks in western Australia. In previous tests, Rio Tinto locomotives operated across the route in “autopilot mode,” but with a crew still present in the cab. This is the first test in which […]
Genesee & Wyoming and SEACOR have announced a joint venture to own and operate a rail ferry service, CG Railway, between the U.S. and Mexico. Business Wire via Genesee & Wyoming One of two 585-foot roll-on-roll-off rail ferries providing four-day CG Railway service between the ports of Mobile, Ala., and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, in Mexico. Each […]
A Deutsche Bahn ICE high-speed train heading north through Rastatt on Sept. 5, 2016. Keith Fender Rastatt, Germany Google Maps FRANKFURT, Germany — Following the collapse of a new high speed rail tunnel being built underneath the German town of Rastatt, about 100 miles south of Frankfurt am Main, the existing main line railway directly […]
Check out this video from a model railroader in Hungary, Europe. His N scale layout measures 9′ x 3′ x 5′. […]
Check out this video from a model railroader in Hungary, Europe. His N scale layout measures 9′ x 3′ x 5′. […]
The first passenger train on the new high-speed line arrives at Bordeaux on Saturday. The brand new TGV L’Océane train with the latest InOui branding is an Alstom product from early 2017. Two photos, Keith Fender BORDEAUX, France – French rail operator SNCF added another 302.5 miles to its high speed rail network on July […]
A new SNCF “inOUI” train set. SNCF PARIS – Almost 36 years after it launched the TGV, Train a Grande Vitesse or “high speed train,” brand of high speed rail, French national carrier SNCF has announced that the name will be history by 2020. In its place will be inOUI, a re-branding effort aimed at […]
FULL SCREEN James Graham A Deutsche Bahn Class 92 locomotive rests behind a speakers’ platform near London Wednesday as officials welcome the first China-to-United Kingdom rail shipment. FULL SCREEN James Graham YIWU-LONDON: The two end-points of a thousands-of-miles-long journey across Asia and Europe. Logos on the side of the locomotive show a handful of the […]
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BANGKOK, Thailand — The body of Charles E. Ditlefsen, whose CEDCo Publishing Co. calendars featured a variety of railroad subjects, was found dismembered in a freezer in Thailand. He disappeared in 2008. Ditlefsen, who was born in Hungary, was a transportation planner in Marin County, Calif. News reports from Thailand say Ditlefsen may have been […]
The German Mollibahn is an amazing steam-powered preservation railroad along the Baltic Sea, but it’s more than that: It’s got street running too! Check out the sights and sounds of the Molli’s 2-8-2Ts in the streets as motorists and pedestrians take care to avoid the train. Looks for a feature story in a future issue […]
