For Trains editors, the story of 2019 is — and has to be — the return of a Big Boy. Yes, we mean Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 — a speedy 700-tons of steel and steam when fully fueled and ready to go. Despite being out of service since the time Dwight Eisenhower was President, […]
Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 2: Wabtec’s big year NEWSWIRE
Without question, 2019 has been Wabtec’s year to shine. It has been, for starters, the 150th anniversary year for the company that George Westinghouse founded with his invention of the automatic air brake. Despite competition in making the practical safety devices today, air brakes are used on virtually every freight and passenger car, and locomotive […]
Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 3: Commemorative locomotives blossom NEWSWIRE
A relief crew has just boarded Canadian Pacific Railway No. 7015, leading a deadhead business train bound for Kansas City at Marquette, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 2019. The 7015 is one of 60 SD70ACUs being rebuilt by Progress Rail in Kentucky, using the railroad’s stored SD9043MACs. Ten of the rebuilds will wear the heritage scheme. […]
Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 4: Big main lines, short lines swapping ownership NEWSWIRE
Central Maine & Quebec’s Job 1 rolls west at Magog, Quebec, with AC44CWs, Nos. 1002 and 1006, and GP38-3 No. 3812 in June 2018. Canadian Pacific has agreed to buy the short line, giving the railroad direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. Frank Jolin In 2018, Trains editors forecasted that CSX Transportation would continue spinning […]
Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 5: Norfolk Southern executive F units put up for sale NEWSWIRE
Norfolk Southern No. 4271 leads the three other F-units at Knoxville, Tenn., in November 2011 as a Southern Railway 2-8-0 stands by. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn In our lifetimes, Norfolk Southern has been a belle of nostalgic railroading typified by a matching black-and-white set of EMD built F units often arranged in A-B-B-A formation and looking […]
Unions, BNSF Railway spar over employee medical records and information NEWSWIRE
CHICAGO — Ten unions representing more than 30,000 employees have filed a federal lawsuit against BNSF Railway charging that the railroad’s demand for certain medical records is a violation of their rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The suit is in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. The […]
Trains News Wire’s Top 10 stories of 2019 Video NEWSWIRE
Watch Trains Editor Jim Wrinn and Digital Editor Steve Sweeney take on the Top Ten stories of 2019. Are you surprised? Disappointed? Let us know in the comments below. […]
CP Holiday Train raises almost $1.5 million, more than 230,000 pounds of food NEWSWIRE
Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train raised more than $1.49 million (Canadian) and collected more than 238,000 pounds of food during its 2019 tour, the railroad says. Dan Kittay CALGARY — Canadian Pacific’s Holiday train raised more than C$1.49 million and collected 238,393 pounds of food during its 21st annual tour, the railroad announced. The figures are […]
Illinois museum acquires private car ‘Pawnee’ NEWSWIRE
Private car ‘Pawnee’ Illinois Railway Museum UNION, Ill. – The Illinois Railway Museum has acquired the historic Pullman private car Pawnee. The car was built in 1930 and is the second-to-last traditional heavyweight private car built by the Pullman Co. of Chicago. The museum is raising funds to cover the acquisition and transportation of this […]
North Carolina also to benefit from Virginia-CSX deal NEWSWIRE
RALEIGH, N.C. — The recent deal between Virginia and CSX that will allow expanded passenger and commuter rail service south of Washington D.C. also reaches into North Carolina. The Raleigh News and Observer reports that the North Carolina Department of Transportation will eventually acquire about 10 miles of CSX right-of-way from the Virginia state line […]
R&LHS announces winners of 2019 research fellowship grants NEWSWIRE
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society has announced the winners of its 2019 research fellowship grant awards: the Center for Railroad Photography & Art of Madison, Wis., and author Tony Reevy of Durham, N.C. The awards panel chose CRP&A’s application to bring a broader audience to the research from its “After Promontory: 150 Years of […]
Short line group praises extension of tax credit NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON — Short line and regional railroads received an early Christmas gift with the passage of a government spending bill last week that included a five-year extension of a popular tax credit. Last week, Congress passed a $1.4 trillion budget that included an extension of the Short Line Railroad 45G Tax Credit, first enacted in […]
