DARIEN, Conn. — Genesee & Wyoming’s sale to Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC has been completed, the shortline holding company announced this morning. The deal takes the company private, with each share of stock receiving $112 cash. [See “Genesee & Wyoming sold in $8.4 billion deal,” Trains News Wire, July 1, 2019.] As a result, the […]
The last Mission Mountain local into downtown Kalispell, Mont., prepares to depart on Dec. 27. Justin Franz KALISPELL, Mont. — The last train into Kalispell rolled out of town on Dec. 27, just four days shy of the 128th anniversary of the Great Northern Railway’s arrival in the community. But despite the finality of the […]
SEATTLE — Sound Transit’s Link light rail service will see service reductions for a 10-week period beginning Jan. 4, including three weekends when bus service will substitute for part of the route. The reductions will allow construction connecting existing tracks to the new 19-station East Link line to Redmond, Wash. Trains will run on 12-minute […]
These are two of the three assembly lines of Wabtec’s Grove City (Pa.) engine manufacturing plant. To the left is the line for Evolution Series engines; to the right is the line for FDL units. Dan Zukowski GROVE CITY, Pa. — It may not be as well-known as final-production facilities in Erie, Pa., and Fort […]
An inbound Metra BNSF train meets Amtrak’s Southwest Chief at Naperville, Ill., on Jan. 1, 2018. Metra will offer free New Year’s Eve rides and discounted New Year’s Day tickets this year. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — For the first time, Metra will offer free rides on New Year’s Eve, along with discounted rides on […]
Two former Santa Fe Hi-Level coaches are now part of the collection at the Arizona Railway Museum. They arrived on Dec. 26. Arizona Railway Museum CHANDLER, Ariz. — Two Santa Fe Hi-Level coaches have a new home at an Arizona museum. The Arizona Railway Museum, in Chandler, took delivery of the coaches from a Union […]
MONTERREY, Mexico — A Mexican railroad’s president is calling for protesters who block railroad lines to be thrown in jail. The call, from Kansas City Southern de Mexico’s President President Jose Zozaya comes in the wake of KCSdeM shutdowns at least a half dozen times this past year in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Shutdowns […]
Amtrak Acela Express trains meet at Elizabeth, N.J., in August 2019. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is launching a new effort to bring high speed rail service to New York’s Empire Corridor. TRAINS: David Lassen ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will announce a new effort to develop high speed rail service in […]
BOSTON — Delays were continuing this morning on one Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority line after a Thursday afternoon derailment of an outbound commuter train. No injuries were reported when the Framingham/Worcester train derailed near the Lansdowne station in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Keolis Commuter Services, the contract operator of MBTA commuter trains, described the accident as “a […]
For Trains editors, the story of 2019 is — and has to be — the return of a Big Boy. Yes, we mean Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 — a speedy 700-tons of steel and steam when fully fueled and ready to go. Despite being out of service since the time Dwight Eisenhower was President, […]
Without question, 2019 has been Wabtec’s year to shine. It has been, for starters, the 150th anniversary year for the company that George Westinghouse founded with his invention of the automatic air brake. Despite competition in making the practical safety devices today, air brakes are used on virtually every freight and passenger car, and locomotive […]
A relief crew has just boarded Canadian Pacific Railway No. 7015, leading a deadhead business train bound for Kansas City at Marquette, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 2019. The 7015 is one of 60 SD70ACUs being rebuilt by Progress Rail in Kentucky, using the railroad’s stored SD9043MACs. Ten of the rebuilds will wear the heritage scheme. […]
