JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation is streamlining its intermodal network to focus on more profitable longer-haul service linking major markets. Lost in the shuffle: Service between low-volume origin-destination pairs as well as certain shorter-haul direct interline moves made in conjunction with BNSF Railway and Union Pacific through Chicago. The railroad informed customers today about numerous […]
With its latest acquisitions, Cuyahoga Valley has one of the largest fleets of Zephyr cars. CVSR Silver Solarium is an observation-dome-sleeper from the California Zephyr. CVSR This image shows the interior of Cuyahoga Valley’s new acquisition, Silver Lariat. CVSR PENINSULA, OHIO – Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad today declared success in its first-ever capital campaign with […]
Former Seaboard Coast Line and CSX Transportation U36B No. 7764 arrived at the Lake Shore Railway Museum early Wednesday morning. Lake Shore Railway Historical Society NORTH EAST, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s northernmost rail museum is adding a new, rare piece to its growing collection of GE-built locomotives: a U36B. According to a Lake Shore Railway Historical […]
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 under restoration in Cheyenne, Wyo., in June 2018. Trains: Jim Wrinn OGDEN, Utah — When will Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 travel to Ogden in May 2019? That’s the question that’s on every big steam locomotive fan’s mind. In May 2018, UP announced that both No. 4014, currently […]
CONTAGEM, Brazil — GE Transportation released a new time-lapse video of heavy-haul freight locomotive production in the company’s plant in Brazil. All locomotives are now built on an assembly line that moves continuously, much as in automobile assembly plants. […]
Nippon Sharyo’s plant in Rochelle, Ill., is closed and is on the market. Avison Young ROCHELLE, Ill. — Eight years after opening to much fanfare, Nippon Sharyo’s passenger rail car manufacturing plant in Rochelle, Ill., is closing and up for sale. The company blamed the closing on its failure to complete a contract to deliver […]
CHICAGO — It was called “Operation Trailer Trap.” The plan: Park a semitrailer truck loaded with goods on a Chicago side street as a lure for thieves. The goal: Strike back against freight thefts that have plagued the crime-ridden area. The outcome: Totally awry. A Norfolk Southern official has apologized to Chicagoans, saying the operation […]
Howard Green Journalist-turned-author Howard Green conducted more than 14,000 interviews while at Canada’s Business News Network, including the chief executives of every major Canadian company and more than a few American firms. But no interviews were like the ones he did with E. Hunter Harrison when he was at the helm of Canadian National and […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Watco hopes to begin operating a pair of CSX Transportation routes in Illinois and Indiana early next month. The Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad will take over CSX’s Decatur Subdivision in Illinois and the neighboring Danville Secondary in Indiana on or around Sept. 6, pending regulatory approval, Watco said in a filing […]
An outbound Metra Rock Island train passes the New Lenox, Ill., station, set to be moved on Aug. 15. TRAINS: David Lassen NEW LENOX, Ill. — The 118-year-old New Lenox railroad station, most recently used by Metra, will be moved from its longtime location to a farm 5 miles away on Wednesday, Aug. 15. The […]
NEW YORK — What weighs 68 tons, is almost 40 feet long, arrives in its own container, and could revolutionize railhead maintenance in North America? A rail milling machine, of course. More than 20 rail transit and rail commuter line operations staff from coast to coast had a brief inaugural look on Tuesday at one […]
No. 18 at Independence, Calif., in July 2017. David Crosby INDEPENDENCE, Calif. – Southern Pacific narrow-gauge 4-6-0 No. 18 will be steamed up and operated in Independence Oct. 4-5. The locomotive was restored and is operated by the locally based all-volunteer Carson & Colorado Railway, which takes its name from the original railroad that operated […]
