Trains Presents: Stevenson, Ala., train watching
Trains Magazine takes you to Stevenson, Ala., for CSX and Norfolk Southern mainline action with videographer and author Chris Wehman. Learn more about Stevenson in the September 2018 issue! […]
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NS derailment in swamp sparks environmental concerns NEWSWIRE
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Amtrak has restored service to and from Norfolk., Va., today after it was suspended following a Tuesday Norfolk Southern derailment, but that derailment has raised environmental concerns. Thirty-six cars of a coal train derailed into the Great Dismal Swamp National Refuge early Tuesday. The manager of the refuge, Chris Lowie, told the […]
Impact of Precision Scheduled Railroading shows up in Class I employment figures NEWSWIRE
Surface Transportation Board data Employment at U.S. Class I railroads has fallen 4% since February 2017, the month before E. Hunter Harrison began implementing Precision Scheduled Railroading at CSX Transportation. Harrison’s efficiency-driven operating model has since spread to Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and Kansas City Southern, making additional workforce reductions likely through the end of […]
New model trains for the week of June 27, 2019
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division F-series diesel locomotives. F3A and F3B: Missouri-Kansas-Texas (red and black) and St. Louis-San Francisco (black and yellow). F7A and F7B: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (cat whiskers scheme); Milwaukee Road (orange, maroon, and black); and Western Maryland (black and yellow). Prototype-specific details, factory-installed and painted wire grab irons, and body-mounted […]
Kentucky mine served by both CSX and NS enters bankruptcy NEWSWIRE
A CSX train prepares to flood load at Premier Elkhorn Coal’s prep plant at Myra, Kentucky, in summer 2012. The plant is now owned by Cambrian Holding Company, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection. Chris Anderson BELCHER, KY. — A coal operator in Eastern Kentucky with loading operations served by both CSX Transportation and Norfolk […]
Royalty in the making
On May 29, 1950, workers put the finishing touches on brand-new Norfolk & Western J Class 4-8-4 No. 611 at Roanoke, Va. It was one of four such engines outshopped in 1950 and would come to be the face of successor Norfolk Southern’s steam program in the 1980s and 1990s. Norfolk & Western photo […]
Port Authority completes ExpressRail project NEWSWIRE
NEW YORK — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced completion of its ExpressRail Port Jersey facility, the last piece of a $600-million project to build dedicated rail facilities for each of the port’s major container terminals. The project connects the Port Jersey facility, operated by Global Container Terminals Bayonne, to […]
Delaware-Lackawanna named NS ‘Short Line Of The Year’ NEWSWIRE
NORFOLK, Va. –Norfolk Southern has presented Genesee Valley Transportation subsidiary Delaware-Lackawanna with its Short Line of the Year award. In bestowing this honor upon the D-L, the Class I railroad identified the short line’s operational and business development teams, respectively and collectively, for conscientious customer service and commitment to growth. “Our partnership with the Delaware-Lackawanna […]
Diesels from two railroads honoring first responders will headline fire truck festival in N.C. NEWSWIRE
CSX 911 and 1776 will add to the fire truck festival at the N.C. Transportation Museum Saturday. Chris Anderson SPENCER, N.C. — Commemorative locomotives from CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway are set to meet for the first time at an event at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer this weekend. The museum says […]
Four railroads combine to offer interline intermodal service to Central Florida NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern, and Florida East Coast have launched interline domestic intermodal service connecting California, Dallas, and Chicago with central Florida. The service, which launched today, uses the FEC terminal in Titusville, Fla., about 40 miles east of Orlando, Fla. UP handles both private and EMP containers between its terminals in […]
Truck driver killed, NS train derailed in grade-crossing accident NEWSWIRE
GERMANTOWN, Tenn. — The driver of the truck was killed and a Norfolk Southern train derailed after the train hit a garbage truck at a grade crossing on Thursday. 40-year-old Marco Brooks of Memphis died after being airlifted to Regional One Hospital in critical conditions, the Germantown Police department told WATN-TV News. Fourteen cars of […]
ScaleTrains.com N scale GE C39-8 diesel
ScaleTrains.com N scale GE C39-8 diesel The model has many prototype-specific details, including a retrofitted vertical handrail on the end of the long hood. For the first time in N scale, a General Electric C39-8 is available as a ready-to-run plastic model. Produced by ScaleTrains.com as part of the firm’s Rivet Counter series, the N […]
