KEOKUK, Iowa — Patriot Rail, which acquired the Keokuk Junction Railway last year, has begun upgrading the railroad’s locomotive roster. The new owner has moved in a former CSX Transportation GP38-3, now LTEX No. 3048, and GP40-2 No. 6437, both in the Patriot Rail corporate paint scheme honoring veterans and troops. The cab sides include […]
BUFFALO, Iowa — Two people suffered minor injuries early Saturday morning when their single-engine airplane crashed onto CPKC railroad tracks in Buffalo, WQAD-TV reports. Responding to a report of a vehicle accident about 1:40 a.m. on State Route 22, officers from the Buffalo Police Department found a single-engine aircraft had crashed. The pilot was attempting […]
FLINT, Mich. — A single-engine aircraft made a forced landing on the double-track mainline of Canadian National Railway’s Flint Subdivision Thursday morning, April 20. The pilot, the plane’s sole occupant, was uninjured in the landing near Linden and Bristol roads west of Flint. According to Michigan State Police, the railroad was contacted to immediately shut […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Amtrak passengers will be displaced from Kansas City Union Station for five days beginning April 26 as the landmark facility hosts the NFL Draft. Passengers will need to use a shuttle bus arriving and departing west of the station on West 25th Street or face a 15-minute walk to the station […]
A Pacific is in charge of Minneapolis & St. Louis’s St. Louis–St. Paul North Star Limited between Chaska and Eden Prairie, Minn., in the 1920s or early ’30s. Don Hofsommer collection […]
CLEVELAND – The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board Tuesday approved the purchase of 24 Siemens Model S200 rail cars, with the option to purchase up to a total of 60 cars in the future. The new cars are modeled after a fleet currently used by Calgary Transit in Alberta. The design concepts were presented to […]
BLUE ISLAND, Ill. — Thirteen cars of a CSX Transportation train derailed Wednesday night in the Chicago suburb of Blue Island, with the railcars damaging several parked vehicles when they overturned on a sharp curve, WLS-TV reports. No injuries were reported. No hazardous materials were involved, and no cargo was spilled or leaked. CSX said […]
GALESBURG, Ill. – The National Railroad Hall of Fame project has been awarded a $478,414 state tourism grant toward construction of a building in Galesburg. Plans call for construction of a new building next to the Amtrak station that would celebrate railroading history and bring in tourism dollars, Tri States Public Radio reported. The proposal to […]
TREGO, Wis. – A former Great Northern Railway ranch car that was once part of the storied Empire Builder streamliner has been purchased and moved to the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad in Trego. The ranch car, No. 1244, named White Pines Lake, was purchased from a former conference center operation in Columbus, Ohio, in January […]
WASHINGTON — A section of fractured rail is being examined as part of the investigation of the March 30 derailment and fire involving a BNSF Railway train in Raymond, Minn., according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary accident report. Twenty-three cars were part of that derailment. It involved 10 cars of ethanol, some of […]
DULUTH, Minn. – The Lake Superior Railroad Museum is celebrating its golden anniversary this year. It was 1973 when the Lake Superior Museum of Transportation & Industry was incorporated (the name was formally changed to Lake Superior Railroad Museum Dec. 1, 1997). Three men were primarily responsible for the museum’s establishment: rail historians Frank A. […]
Louisville & Nashville 1807, one of the road’s big fleet of heavy USRS 2-8-2s, moves through Strawberry Yard, south of Louisville, in the late 1940s. Charles B. Castner photo […]
