A Union Pacific Cold Connect produce train passes through Lombard, Ill. UP is adding to its refrigerator-car fleet. TRAINS: David Lassen SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Union Pacific will acquire 1,000 new refrigerator cars with the possibility of expanding the order to 1,600, a UP official told a recent shippers’ conference. The Produce News reports that […]
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CSX expects PTC to pave way for 1-person crews; autonomous operations NEWSWIRE
BOSTON — CSX Transportation will eventually seek to operate trains with one-person crews on lines under the protection of positive train control, Chief Financial Officer Frank Lonegro told an investor conference this week. When PTC is fully operational by the end of 2020, CSX will have invested $2.4 billion in the federally mandated safety system. […]
East Lansing to join list of unstaffed Amtrak stations in Michigan NEWSWIRE
LANSING, Mich. — East Lansing, Michigan’s fourth-busiest Amtrak station, will soon join the list of Amtrak ticket offices in the state to close. The stations in Niles, Jackson and Flint, Mich., became unstaffed earlier this year by attrition (the lone ticket agent at each station retired and was not replaced). In all cases, the Michigan […]
KCS announces 2018 Holiday Train schedule NEWSWIRE
Kansas City, MO. — Kansas City Southern announced today its schedule for the 18th annual Holiday Express train, which will stop in 22 communities in eight states on 27 dates. At each stop, visitors can board the train, visit with Santa and his elves and tour the inside of three cars of the festive six-car […]
Rock Island streamliners’ appearance in Chicago cancelled NEWSWIRE
The Rock Island locomotives were originally built in the 1940s to power the railroad’s premiere ‘Rocket’ trains Rob Schriener CHICAGO – An appearance at LaSalle Street Station by two historic streamlined Rock Island diesels — E8 No. 652 and E6 No. 630 — during Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765’s Joliet Rocket event Sept. 15 […]
CN orders 60 locomotives from GE NEWSWIRE
A GE-built Tier 4 emission compliant locomotive for Canadian National rests outside the GE Transportation factory near Fort Worth, Texas, in 2017. GE Transportation CHICAGO — GE Transportation announced today that Canadian National has ordered 60 more locomotives, adding to an order of 200 placed in December 2017. The units will be built at GE […]
Canadian crude by rail volumes could double by the end of 2019 NEWSWIRE
Canadian National CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian shipments of crude by rail, which are already moving at record volumes to the U.S., could double by the end of 2019 as tight pipeline capacity forces oil producers to turn to railroads. With pipeline capacity maxed out in Canada, the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline dealt a blow by […]
CSX donates SD45-2 to Georgia museum NEWSWIRE
CSX donated SD45-2 No. 8954 to Southeastern Railway Museum near Atlanta. SERM: Andrew Durden DULUTH, Ga. — CSX Transportation donated a rare SD45-2 locomotive to the Southeastern Railway Museum that is the first of its kind exhibited in a museum. Electro-Motive Division built CSX No. 8954 in August 1974. It was one of only 136 […]
Hudson Bay Railway sale completed, repairs to begin NEWSWIRE
The Town of Churchill announced the sale of the Hudson Bay Railway on its Facebook page. CHURCHILL, Manitoba — A deal has finally been reached to sell the Hudson Bay Railway, the currently closed line which provides the only ground transportation option to Churchill, on Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba. A post on the town’s […]
New York Penn Station fall update: a disappearing information booth and platform upgrades NEWSWIRE
NEW YORK CITY — New York Penn Station changes this autumn will largely be above track level. In a media call on Tuesday, Amtrak’s Chief Operating Officer Scot Naparstek and Janet Campbell-Lorenc, senior director of the Northeast Corridor Service Line, reviewed changes that were made over the summer, and what will be happening this fall. […]
Erie Lackawanna SDP45 to leave Virginia for Ohio NEWSWIRE
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the Virginia Museum of Transportation to purchase Erie Lackawanna SDP45 No. 3639, currently painted as Conrail No. 6670, and located in Roanoke, Va. The foundation has initiated a fundraising drive, Extra 3693 North, with an initial goal of $20,000 to purchase and […]
Analysis: Amtrak, stakeholders clarify positions on ‘Southwest Chief,’ PTC
BNSF’s Rich Wessler, left, and Amtrak’s Joe McHugh address stakeholders assembled on the first inspection train of the Chief route, west of Garden City, Kan., on Jan. 10, 2013. Bob Johnston LA JUNTA, Colo. — Following the Aug. 21 meeting between Amtrak officials and Southwest Chief stakeholders in Raton, N.M. — which provided the first […]