KANSAS CITY, Mo. — CEOs of five Class I railroads are currently on the schedule for this year’s North American Rail Shippers meeting, to be held May 9-11 at the Kansas City Downtown Marriott. Scheduled or invited to appear are Canadian Pacific’s Keith Creel, BNSF’s Katie Farmer, CSX’s Jim Foote, Kansas City Southern’s Pat Ottensmeyer, […]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration will hold its first Track & Roadway Workplace Safety Symposium April 5-7 in St. Louis. There is no registration fee, and registrants receive a discounted lodging rate at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel. The event was originally scheduled for 2020 in Louisville, Ky., but was postponed because of […]
Union Pacific’s Super Bowl special, a 29-car train using its business train equipment, headed west on Saturday from Council Bluffs and Omaha for Los Angeles, the site of Super Bowl LVI between Cincinnati and the Los Angeles Rams. The game is set for Sunday, Feb. 13. […]
WASHINGTON— More than a dozen rail shippers and trade associations from across North America have written to federal regulators to express concern about how proposed Amtrak service on the Gulf Coast could harm freight service between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans. Most of the submissions are form letters that urge the Surface Transportation Board to […]
WILLIAMS, Ariz. — The Arizona State Railroad Museum Foundation in Williams, Ariz., has acquired the sole U.S. example of the SF30C rebuild program from Santa Fe’s Cleburne (Texas) Shops. No. 9501 was built as a U36C by General Electric in March 1973 as construction No. 3990 and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 8728. It […]
TRENTON, N.J. — After assaults on transit employees more than tripled in each of the last two years, New Jersey has enacted a law that increases penalties for such attacks. New Jersey 101.5 FM reports the Motorbus and Passenger Rail Service Employee Violence Prevention Act will make attacks on NJ Transit workers at least third-degree […]
WASHINGTON — An Amtrak regulatory filing supporting Canadian Pacific’s bid to merge with Kansas City Southern provides a roadmap of what the two parties say is needed for passenger service to begin on new routes, or for frequencies to be increased where Amtrak trains already run. Operating and infrastructure agreements between Amtrak and its hosts […]
LEBANON, Ohio — The city of Lebanon is preparing to approve a new eight-year agreement with the nonprofit Lebanon, Mason & Monroe Railroad, which operates a tourist railroad on city-owned tracks in the community. The Hamilton Journal-News reports the current agreement expires next year. The new contract will address replacement of two of the five […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s legislature is considering a bill which would move oversight of major transit projects from the local Utah Transit Authority to the state Department of Transportation. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the bill, sponsored by Rep. Kay Christofferson (R-Lehi), would also give the state the ability to invest more into UTA […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some $138 million in funding is now available for transit agencies in Washington state, the first money coming from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray announced, saying the state will receive $1.79 billion over the next five years. “These funds are critical to helping meet the ridership […]
Introducing The Empress Canadian Pacific 2816 The Empress: Canadian Pacific President and CEO Rob Ritchie set the steam preservation world on its ear when in 1998 he revealed the railway’s plan to repatriate CP H1b Hudson No. 2816 from its long-time home at the National Park Service’s Steamtown museum and rebuild the 1930-vintage locomotive for […]
9 oddball diesel locomotives: Just when we think we understand the rationale behind particular railroad locomotive fleets, they like to throw us a ringer or two. Standardization is the key to a streamlined and efficient operating department, and while an endless parade of one particular model may become a little monotonous for fans, railroad accountants […]
