On Tuesday, the two-engine, three-car Metro-North Holiday Train awaits the start of employee thank-you trips at Grand Central Terminal in New York City. P32AC-DM No. 229 is at the front. Each of the three passenger car is at least 70 years old. Ralph Spielman Metro-North car No. 2 was built by Budd in 1949 as […]
ROANOKE, Va. — The Virginia Museum of Transportation is searching for a new executive director for the third time in less than two years. On Nov. 27, Bob Sigman stepped down as the head of the museum after six months. In May, Sigman had replaced Lisa Sphar, who had been on the job for just […]
Bay-window O gauge caboose from Atlas O Trainman line Price: $76.95. Features: Factory-applied smokestack, brake wheel, brake lines, and see-through running board; die-cast metal couplers; roller-bearing caboose trucks with rotating bearing caps; weighted, detailed underframe; and interior lighting with on/off switch on underbody. New paint schemes: Chessie System (Chesapeake & Ohio reporting marks), Norfolk Southern […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is the first North American railroad to join TradeLens, a blockchain platform developed by international container carrier Maersk and by IBM. TradeLens is an open, neutral platform that includes data on half the world’s container cargo, CSX officials say. “Joining TradeLens is a further demonstration of our commitment to providing […]
NASHVILLE — Railroads need to change their pricing if J.B. Hunt is going to increase its intermodal business. “We always want to market and sell intermodal when that’s the best solution,” says Darren Field, J.B. Hunt executive vice president of the company’s intermodal operations, which provide more than half of Hunt’s revenue. J.B. Hunt in […]
Soo Line FP7 2500A pulls a train on the North Shore Scenic Railroad at Palmers, Minn., on Sept. 6, 2019. Steve Glischinski DULUTH, Minn. — The Lake Superior Railroad Museum marked 30 years of operation of its North Shore Scenic Railroad at its volunteer appreciation dinner in November. NSSR operates 27 miles of former Duluth, […]
The westbound California Zephyr blasts through Plano, Ill., on Dec. 2, 2019. Plano’s Amtrak station could become a station for an extension of Metra’s BNSF line into Kendall County, Ill. TRAINS: David Lassen PLANO, Ill. — The opportunity has begun for the public to inspect and consider aspects of the proposed extension of Metra commuter […]
PITTSBURGH — Norfolk Southern and groups representing residents of Pittsburgh’s North Side will go to a mediator to address concerns about the railroad’s plans to upgrade a route to handle double-stack container trains. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that an attorney representing the Northside Leadership Conference says that he and the railroad are choosing a mediator […]
TRENTON — NJ Transit will not restore express service on its Pascack Valley line until the commuter railroad has more engineers available, NorthJersey.com reports. The express trains are part of a dispute between NJ Transit and Metro-North, which pays the New Jersey agency to operate some services extending into New York state. [See “Metro-North to […]
WASHINGTON — A group of 13 U.S. Senators, all Democrats, have written Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson requesting that the passenger railroad do away with its recent move requiring passengers to accept arbitration rather than being able to sue — a request Anderson quickly turned down. In January, Amtrak changed the contract language accompanying its tickets […]
Bowser Trains HO scale GE U25B diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Electric U25B diesel locomotive. Burlington Northern (Great Northern Big Sky Blue patchout, Phases IIb and IV in one number each); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue-and-yellow warbonnet, Phase IIa in three numbers); Chesapeake & Ohio (solid blue merger renumbering, Phase IIa); Chicago, Burlington […]
Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Nov. 23, 2019. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 521,927 carloads and intermodal units, up 10.6% compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending Nov. 23 were […]
