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CN releases 2022-23 Winter Plan

MONTREAL — Canadian National has published its 2022-23 Winter Plan, which outlines measures by the railroad to meet operating needs during winter weather as required by the Canada Transportation Act. The railroad says those measures include an increase of 850 employees between the start of 2022 and the end of June, with 500 additional conductors […]

C&IM coal drag

Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway 2-10-2

Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-10-2 No. 701, built new for the road by Lima in 1931, works up Petersburg Hill near Havana Ill., in May 1952. Ed Theisinger photo […]

STB gets an earful about KCS-NS Meridian Speedway joint venture

WASHINGTON – Surface Transportation Board members appear skeptical about CSX Transportation’s bid to force its way on to the Kansas City Southern-Norfolk Southern Meridian Speedway. The Meridian Speedway — which runs from Meridian, Miss., to Shreveport, La., — is the shortest, fastest route between the Southeast and Southwest. NS and KCS formed the Meridian Speedway […]

Meet James Royal

Meet James Royal How did you get started in the hobby? I got started with my Dad back in the 1950s. He had a modular Lionel O scale layout in our attic with a Santa Fe Super Chief AB set with freight cars that was about 8 x 24 feet and included several operating accessories […]

J.B. Hunt adding transload locations in Laredo, Pacific Northwest

LOWELL, Ark. — J.B. Hunt Transport Services will open new transload facilities to transfer cargo between international and domestic 53-foot containers in Seattle and Laredo, Texas, giving it facilities at four of the nation’s largest ocean ports as well as the largest land port of entry into the U.S. “The complexities of international shipping continue to […]

BNSF’s Truxton Flyover: improving traffic flows on Southern Transcon

Train on bridge crossing over railroad tracks in desert landscape

BNSF’s Truxton Flyover project Truxton, Ariz., is not exactly one of the metropolitan centers of the American Southwest. “Population: very small,” says Craig Rasmussen, BNSF Railway assistant vice president, engineering services and structures. Officially, as of the 2020 census, 104 people live in the hamlet 42 miles northeast of Kingman, Ariz., on U.S. Route 66. […]

Virginian Ry. class BL-4 ballast hopper decals from Great Decals

Virginian class BL-4 ballast hopper black decals Scale: HO (1:87.1) Price: $4.99 postpaid Manufacturer: Great Decals, 3306 Parkside Terrace, Fairfax, VA 22031; greatdecals.com Decals feature: Printed by Tichy Train Group Includes herald, road name, and road numbers for sides and ends; dimensional data; and operator instructions Each set completes one car Suitable for Tyco operating hopper or other […]