JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – CSX Corp. has named Jeffery D. Wall its vice president of Labor Relations. With more than 20 years of labor relations and negotiating experience, Wall will be responsible for overall labor strategy and working with unions that represent nearly 17,000 CSX employees. He will report to Diana Sorfleet, executive vice president and […]
Smith sits at his desk in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS – Gordon “Gordy” Smith, the last active train dispatcher from the Delaware & Hudson Railway, retired Dec. 15. Smith, 69, has 50 years of railroad experience, all with D&H, which became a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific in 1991. CP operates D&H under its subsidiary Soo Line Corp., […]
WASHINGTON — Amtrak is considering airline-style nonrefundable fares and ticket-change fees, according to a leaked memo. The tech website BGR, quoting from a paywalled Business insider report, says the changes could come as soon as January. They would make the lowest-priced “saver” fares nonrefundable and non-changeable 24 hours after purchase, and impose a 25% cancellation […]
A Google Maps 3D view shows a portion of the Dumbarton Rail Bridge, idle since 1982. Work is advancing on selection of station sites for a rail line that would revive the route across San Francisco Bay. Google Maps REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Sites for possible Redwood City stations on a new Dumbarton commuter rail […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway is preparing to move some of its dispatchers from its Montreal rail traffic control center to Edmonton, Alberta. The railroad tells the Montreal Gazette that fewer than 15 people will be reassigned to Edmonton, but officials from the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference say some members have been told that the […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation is expanding a loan program to benefit short line and regional railroads. On Dec. 12, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced the Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Financing Express program (RRIF Express) was accepting loan applications for projects that will specifically modernize the freight rail network in rural […]
BNSF has restored these former Santa Fe cars for ‘snow coach’ duty. BNSF Railway WHITEFISH, Mont. — BNSF Railway has restored two former Santa Fe hi-level coaches and two baggage cars for service as “snow coaches” this winter. BNSF officials tell Trains News Wire that the coaches will be used to move crews when regular […]
An inbound Metra BNSF train pauses at the Metra station in Clarendon Hills, Ill., in September. The station will be torn down in January to allow for construction of a new building. TRAINS: David Lassen CLARENDON HILLS, Ill. — Groundbreaking is scheduled for Jan. 6, 2020, for the downtown revitalization project including a new Clarendon […]
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit this week brought against CSX by residents evacuated following a 2017 derailment in Hyndman, Pennsylvania. The Altoona Mirror newspaper is reporting that U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson dismissed the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania by several Hyndman residents in relation to […]
Norfolk Southern 4271 leads the three other F-units at Knoxville, Tenn., in November 2011 as Southern Railway 2-8-0 stands by. Trains: Jim Wrinn ALTOONA, Pa. — The last two of Norfolk Southern’s four executive F-units now have a home. F9A No. 271 and F7B No. 276 have been purchased by North Carolina’s Aberdeen Carolina & […]
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Ridership on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s new service from its Gillette Stadium station is well under the target figure to retain the pilot program, the Attleboro, Mass., Sun-Chronicle reports. Through seven weeks, an average of 70 people per day are using the station, state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Lisa Battison, who said […]
NJ Transit and Amtrak trains stop at the Newark Airport station. At a Thursday hearing on NJ Transit, one expert testified that road access to the station — which currently connects only to an airport monorail — would be a valuable addition. Ralph Spielman TRENTON, N.J. — The need for new funding sources is crucial […]
