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Steam over Cumbres Pass On a sunny June morning in Antonito, Colorado, Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad’s 4-6-0 No. 168, built by Baldwin in 1883, is readied for another run over the mountains. Its relatively tall 46-inch drivers made it suitable for fast passenger service. Carl Swanson The 64-mile-long Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is […]
CUMBERLAND, Md. — The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad has acquired former Conemaugh & Black Lick Railroad SW7 locomotive No. 111, a fully functional EMD end-cab switcher which the railroad plans to use on some of its seasonal excursion trains. The locomotive built in 1949 is the last of 25 such locomotives that served the railroad […]
MEXICO CITY — Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize plan to create a working group to study the creation of rail connections between the three nations, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday. The plans were announced following a Friday, Aug. 15, meeting between Sheinbuam, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo and Belizean Prime Minister John Briceño. The business news […]
LOS ANGELES — Tom Schamber has been named as chief financial officer of Los Angeles-area commuter rail operator Metrolink. The appointment, announced Monday, Aug. 18, is effective immediately. Schamber, who has more almost three decades of management experience in accouting, audit, and financial operations, has been with Metrolink since 2016 and has led the financial […]
PLEASANT HILL, Mo. — Six passengers on Amtrak’s Missouri River Runner suffered minor injuries on Sunday (Aug. 18, 2025) when the train struck a trailer at a private grade crossing near Kansas City, the Missouri Highway Patrol reports. The collision occurred about 5 p.m. WDAF-TV reports the eastbound train struck a trailer loaded with hay […]
EAST TROY, Wis. — The East Troy Railroad Museum recently announced a $10,000 donation from the Canadian National Railway’s Community Giving Program. The funding will support vital infrastructure improvements, specifically the replacement of wooden ties along the museum’s main line between East Troy and Mukwonago, Wis. “This 7-mile line is the last remnant of an […]
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board has approved a $1.97 billion contract for tunnel boring to extend the Second Avenue Subway, a 1.5-mile addition to extend the Q Line from 116th Street to 125th Street, and then west along 125th Street to Park Avenue in East Harlem. The contract approved today (Monday, Aug. […]
FILLMORE, Calif. — A former Santa Fe caboose, one of the last pieces of equipment owned by the defunct tourist line Fillmore & Western that was still on successor Sierra Northern Railway in Fillmore, was moved last week to a new private owner in San Diego. The caboose, Santa Fe No. 999091, was built by […]
TORONTO — Alstom will build new subway cars for the Toronto Transit Commission at its Thunder Bay, Ontario, plant, after the TTC cancelled bidding for the contract and elected to award the order to the only company that could build the equipment in Canada. The move was announced Friday (Aug. 15), with the TTC saying […]
WICHITA, Kan. — Santa Fe FP45 No. 93, donated to the Great Plains Transportation Museum by BNSF in 1999, is being moved to Mid-America Car in Kansas City, Mo., for a complete cosmetic restoration to its original Warbonnet paint scheme. The locomotive began its move on Sunday, Aug. 17, after nearly two years of fundraising […]
ENFIELD, N.C. — Twenty-eight cars of a CSX loaded CSX coal train derailed Sunday afternoon (Aug. 17, 2025) north of Rocky Mount, N.C., bringing extensive disruptions to Amtrak service as well as freight operations. No injuries were reported, and a CSX representative told WRAL-TV that no waterways had been affected and there was “no threat […]
NEW ORLEANS — Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission on Saturday staged a preview of the long-anticipated Mardi Gras service set to begin Monday (Aug. 18, 2025) using cars, locomotives, and crews that will provide two daily round trips between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala. Here’s a look at how the table was set on […]
