Action may be required on your Trains.com account in order to continue accessing content. Click here to learn more.
JOPLIN, Mo. — The Missouri Eastern Railway, a new subsidiary of transportation company Jaguar Transport Holdings, began operation Tuesday, March 1, in the St. Louis area. In January, the company acquired 42 miles of track between St. Louis and Union, Mo., previously operated by Progressive Rail’s Central Midland Railway. In February, it acquired leasehold rights […]
WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board has announced its upcoming hearing on proposed reciprocal switching regulations will be held online, via Zoom, and will be available for public viewing on YouTube. The hearing is set to be held March 15-16, with proceedings beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST each day. It will be shown on the […]
WASHINGTON — Union Pacific has asked federal regulators to ensure that a merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern does not undermine competition at the Laredo, Texas, gateway. Laredo, the most important Mexico border crossing, is where UP interchanges with KCS de Mexico and stands to lose traffic to the combined Canadian Pacific Kansas […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern have vastly overestimated traffic and revenue growth that would flow from their proposed combination, making the rest of their merger application a house of cards, Canadian National claims in a regulatory filing. The CP-KCS merger application is so “riddled with errors” that the Surface Transportation Board should not […]
Rapido Trains announced that it will be offering a Union Pacific 40-foot Alternating Center Rivet boxcar in HO scale. The release date for the model has yet to be announced. The boxcar will be offered in three classes: B-50-39 (1947 as-delivered scheme with “Road of the Streamliners” and “Serves All the West” slogans and 1956+ […]
A 66-foot bulkhead flatcar based on a Canadian prototype is the latest HO scale freight car announced by Rapido Trains. The release date for the model has not been announced. Paint schemes on the first run of bulkhead flatcars include BNSF Ry. (BC Rail patchout and Mineral Red schemes); British Columbia Ry. (green with BCOL […]
WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board has granted CSX Transportation’s request to delay the hearing on Amtrak Gulf Coast service, which was unopposed by Amtrak and the other parties to the case. The evidentiary hearing, which had been scheduled to begin March 9, will now be held April 4-5, with April 6 and April 8 […]
KR Models recently shared a new video and images of a second pre-production sample of its HO scale Shay. The model, based on the Lima-built 50-ton two-truck Class B geared steam locomotive, is scheduled for release this fall. Road names announced for the model include Arcata no. 7, Canadian Pacific no. 111, Merrill & Ring […]
WASHINGTON — A coalition of Chicago suburbs says it would cost between $5.5 billion and $9.5 billion to mitigate the impact of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger on their communities. That’s more than the entire price tag of the CREATE program, which aims to spend $4.6 billion on 70 rail improvement projects across the […]
Jacksonville Terminal Co., a firm that’s quickly become well-known for its line of N scale intermodal containers, well cars, and details, announced that it is entering the HO scale market. “We will feature products that are not currently available, and/or are improved versions to meet modelers expectations,” the company said in a press release. “We […]
We put the Atlas N scale General Electric Dash 8-40CW diesel locomotive to work on Model Railroader’s new N scale Milwaukee, Racine & Troy project layout. […]
Kalmbach Media and the Great American Train Shows will partner to produce Trainfest 2022, the renowned national model train show. The event is scheduled to take place in November at a venue in the greater Milwaukee area. Details on the show will be announced later in March. “We are excited to have the show […]
