Mid-Continent Railway Museum celebrates milestone, continued progress

Mid-Continent Railway Museum NORTH FREEDOM, Wis. — Mid-Continent Railway Museum celebrated its 60th anniversary earlier this year, marking the milestone with special events as well as reminiscences of the Wisconsin museum’s growth from a fledgling museum to one with some 500 volunteer members who share their interest in and knowledge of the “Golden Age of […]

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News Photo: A quiet finale for Pan Am Southern

Train with two blue locomotives passes tower at yard

Pan Am Southern quietly wrapped up operations on Thursday. Shown is one of the final trains, EDBF, making a late-afternoon departure from the former Boston & Maine yard at East Deerfield, Mass., for to Bellows Falls, Vt. Effective today (Sept. 1, 2023), Pan Am Southern lines in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York […]

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NJ Transit engineers vote to strike (updated)

Electric locomotive hauls commuter train through S curve

NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit engineers have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen has announced. The union said in a Thursday press release that 81% of those eligible to vote returned their ballots, and 100% of those ballots supported a strike authorization. The exact breakdown: 494 members […]

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NTSB releases preliminary report on track worker death in Great Barrington, Mass.

Aerial view of railroad track in rural area with notation showing accident site.

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The worker who died in an Aug. 4 accident on state-owned tracks in Great Barrington was operating a leaf blower on those tracks when he was struck by a maintenance-of-way machine, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary accident report issued on Thursday. The accident victim was identified in […]

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Frisco caboose ride remembered

Black-and-yellow diesel locomotive handling freight cars during Frisco caboose ride

A Frisco caboose ride provided a much needed railfan break during my military assignment near Kansas City.   My spirits fell when I received orders for my first U.S. Air Force permanent-duty assignment, at the Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base just south of Kansas City, Mo. I had hardly been west of the Appalachian Mountains, and […]

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Ask Trains.com August 2023 compilation part two

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Ask Trains.com August 2023 compilation part two: In part two of the August AskTrains.com compilation, Cody Grivno answers viewer questions about well car gladhand connections, is joined by Roger Carp of Classic Toy Trains to answer why the most valuable Lionel steam locomotives aren’t always the most powerful pullers, and more! Are you looking to […]

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Connecticut’s Shore Line East set for schedule changes to accommodate Amtrak track project

Electric trainset crosses bridge

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Amtrak is temporarily increasing the number of its trains that will cross-honor tickets for Connecticut’s Shore Line East commuter service because of Shore Line East schedule changes to accommodate an Amtrak maintenance-of-way project. Shore Line East service will be reduced during that project. The schedule changes and cross-honoring are effective Sept. […]

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