Union Pacific SANDERSON, Texas – Union Pacific has experienced a bridge fire on the Sunset Route south of Dryden, about 18 miles east of Sanderson. According to the railroad, the fire occurred on Sunday evening and the line is expected to reopen “later this week.” According to spokeswoman Kristen South, at about 6:30 p.m. on […]
Norfolk Southern train Q071, a CN detour, rolls west at Northeast, Pa. Stephan M. Koenig PORT HURON — In the wake of Friday’s derailment of Canadian National train 383 at the international St. Clair Tunnel, CN began rerouting trains almost immediately following the closure of one of its most important gateways. Canadian Pacific has been […]
BOSTON — Elected officials were among those joining protests Monday as Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority fare increases took effect. Boston.com quotes organizers as saying at least 350 people took part in the protests at commuter rail and subway stations throughout the MBTA system to protest across-the-board, 6% fare hikes. The protests, dubbed the Boston T […]
DURANGO, Colo. – Federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit against the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad on Tuesday accusing the popular Colorado tourist railroad of starting a massive wildfire last summer that burned for months and torched more than 53,000 acres. The government is seeking about $25 million from the D&SNG and its parent company, […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Southern Environmental Law Center has filed suit against the North Carolina Railroad Co., in a dispute over records the organization requested from the railroad company, but were denied. In a statement issued Monday, the SECL announced that it had filed suit in Wake County (N.C.) Superior Court after the railroad company […]
Oklahoma Gas & Electric empties approach the four loading silos as the Belle Ayr Mine, then owned by Amax, on Dec. 21, 1976. Hol Wagner GILLETTE, Wyo. – Wyoming’s pioneering Belle Ayr mine southeast of Gillette has closed abruptly this week, following the bankruptcy filing of parent Blackjewel LLC in West Virginia. The company has […]
CSX commemorative units Nos. 1776 and 911 move a three-car special north of Richmond, Va., on Sunday. Joe Garnett WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump’s July 4 event in the nation’s capital will include fireworks, planes flying overhead, and U.S. military tanks that arrived by rail. CSX’s veterans’ locomotive, No. 1776, and first responders’ unit, No. […]
TORONTO — VIA Rail Canada’s plan to cobble together a new Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City passenger corridor from abandoned, lightly used, and new rail lines inched closer to reality last week with the approval of $71 million in funding for further studies. But it raises a question: Why spend more than $4 billion to build a new […]
PRR tail car Frank Thomson will bring up the markers on the special move to celebrate the 1949 Broadway Limited. Note the replica sign. Rudy Garbely NEW YORK — Three Pennsylvania Railroad Broadway Limited cars from the streamlined 1949 edition of the train will celebrate 70 years of service July 12-14 when they operate New […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Watch for major changes to Union Pacific’s Chicago-based intermodal operations this month. Rumors are already swirling about specific traffic shifts and operations changes, but the only definite details available come from a May 2 UP notice announcing Intermodal re-shuffling. Specifically, railroad officials say they’ve sought to “simplify” Chicago intermodal operations by idling […]
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The cleanup of a coal-train derailment in the Great Dismal Swamp will likely take weeks, the Virginian-Pilot reports. Thirty-six cars of the Norfolk Southern train derailed in the swamp early Tuesday. [See “Amtrak service to Norfolk suspended following NS derailment,” Trains News Wire, June 26, 2019.] Chris Lowie, manager of the Great […]
In a 2007 photo, Tom Fawell poses in his Chicagoland studio with his painting of Southern Railway GP38-2’s —running long hood forward, of course Gregory Palumbo CHICAGO — Tom Fawell, the Chicago artist who dazzled a generation with his rakish artwork depicting Electro-Motive Division diesel locomotives on the move, has died at age 90 in […]
