An image of Chesapeake & Ohio No. 1309 2-6-6-2 as it appeared at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Md., in 2014. Trains file photo CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and Trains Magazine will postpone inaugural photo-charter freights with Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309, Chief Executive Officer John Garner and Trains Editor […]
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Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum STRASBURG, Pa. — Officials with the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania say they’ll soon transfer ownership of their historic Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive, S-3 class Berkshire 2-8-4 No. 757, to the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. The Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum will be […]
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX Transportation and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen are discussing shifting to an hourly-rate agreement. CSX notified the union on July 19 that it would like to replace the mileage-based pay system with an hourly rate, William Lyons, general chairman of the union’s CSX Northern Lines General Committee of Adjustment, […]
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WASHINGTON — No surprise, railroads and shippers are sharply divided on the issue of allowing railroad customers with connections to only one railroad to choose an alternative carrier. Shippers call it “captive switching.” “Forced switching” is the term the railroads uses. Both sides shared their views on July 25 before an informal Surface Transportation Board […]
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CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific is running a commemorative Canada 150 train this summer that will tour much of the railroad’s Canadian system in recognition of the country’s 150th birthday. The special train left railroad headquarters in Calgary this week and is headed to Port Moody, British Columbia, for its first event on Friday, July […]
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A GE Transportation sign in front of the main entrance to the company’s Lawrence Park, Pa., locomotive plant on July 27. GE officials announced on Thursday that all locomotive production in Pennsylvania will be moved to Fort Worth, Texas, by the end of 2018. Submitted photo ERIE, Pa. — GE Transportation officials confirm that they […]
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Chris Lantz stands on the short hood end of former Norfolk Southern Nickle Plate Road SD9 No. 358. Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Steel Dynamics, Inc. has donated $3,000 to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Inc. for Project 358, an effort to restore the society’s 1950s diesel locomotive, Nickel Plate […]
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CSX trains Q696/Q697 were once daily trains on the railroad’s former C&O Big Sandy Subdivision and Clinchfield Railroad routes in the south. After being abolished from the route, Q696/Q697 have returned to the C&O and Clinchfield routes in rural Appalachia. Here, CSX Q696 rolls through Louisa, Ky., on its way to Shelby Yard in Pikeville, […]
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Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, left, speaks to media at Wallingford, Conn., on July 24, as Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and Commissioner of Transportation James P. Redeker look on. Scott A. Hartley WALLINGFORD, Conn. — The long-anticipated commuter rail service on Amtrak’s 62-mile New Haven, Conn.-Springfield, Mass., line is expected to become a reality in […]
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — BNSF Railway’s local between Galesburg and Streator, Ill., L CHI 101, is shown running West at Ancona, Ill., from a public grade crossing on Saturday, July 22, 2017. The power on this train for the last several months has been interesting, anything from former Santa Fe “Superfleet” 500 series four-axle GE’s to […]
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NS EMD GP38-2 No. 5130 leads a work train through the N&W CPL signals at Rogers near Roderfield, W.Va., in April 2013. Chase Gunnoe ROANOKE, Va. — Norfolk Southern is ready to sell more than 70 EMD GP38-2 high-hood locomotives and five passenger cars in an equipment auction planned for Aug. 17 in Roanoke. The […]
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The Wisconsin & Southern drops off a circus stock car, passenger car, and flat car with wagons near the Circus World museum in Baraboo, Wis., this week. John Gruber BARABOO, Wis. — The Circus World Museum in Baraboo is preserving a little piece of circus train history. Watco’s Wisconsin & Southern Railroad recently delivered a […]
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