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Broadway Limited Imports HO scale Electro-Motive Division SD7 and SD9 diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SD7 and SD9 diesel locomotive. SD7: Chessie System (Baltimore & Ohio reporting marks); CSX (fictional scheme, dark blue and yellow with boxcar herald); Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (black and gray with “Way of the Zephyrs” slogan); Pennsylvania RR […]
DAYTON, Ohio – Rail activity is still suspended in Dayton after several tornadoes tore through the city and southwestern Ohio communities late Monday night. CSX Transportation confirms it has temporarily ceased all rail operations through Dayton due to down power lines and other debris across mainline tracks. “CSX personnel are working closely with the electric […]
New Canadian National Chief Operating Officer Rob Reilly speaks at his alma mater, Washburn University, in 2017. Reilly was a starting guard on Washburn’s 1987 NAIA men’s basketball national championship team. Washburn University CN Chief Operating Officer Mike Cory will retire at the end of June after 38 years with the railway. Canadian National MONTREAL […]
A train-view of a flyover at Zoo Interlocking in Philadelphia. Brian Solomon Question: Where are some other mainline flyovers in the U.S.? — Frank Klos, San Diego, Calif. Answer: A flyover is grade-separated track arrangement used to keep busy lines fluid by avoiding the need for conflicting crossover movements, often built in conjunction with junctions […]
CP CEO Keith Creel Canadian Pacific BOSTON — Shippers will eventually rally behind Precision Scheduled Railroading, Canadian Pacific CEO Keith Creel says, which could one day lead to a merger of two like-minded Class I systems. “Right now there’s pushback with PSR because customers don’t understand it. Change is always scary. Some railroads have done […]
WASHINGTON — CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern say their higher demurrage charges will encourage shippers to load and unload freight cars more quickly, which will reduce the number of cars online, make their networks more fluid, and ultimately improve service. But a mom-and-pop lumber yard in southern New Jersey says the charges are diverting freight […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division SDP40F. Amtrak (phase 1 and 3 schemes); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue and yellow warbonnet); and BNSF Ry. (Maersk Sealand in one road number, Santa Fe patchout in two numbers). Four numbers per scheme unless noted. Prototype-specific details, factory-installed and painted wire grab irons, and McHenry scale couplers. Direct-current […]
LUMBERTON, Miss. — More than two dozen cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed Saturday morning, an incident believed to have caused by flooding in the area. The Associated Press reports that a Norfolk Southern spokeswoman said in an email that the train, en route from Birmingham, Ala., to New Orleans, derailed about 7:15 a.m. Three […]
A Norfolk Southern train works at Brush Yard in Decatur, Ill., in November 2016. Shippers are saying operational changes brought by Precision Scheduled Railroading are leading to extensive charges for not loading or unloading cars quickly enough, even when railroad service is an issue. Steve Smedley WASHINGTON – Shippers are not exactly jumping for joy […]
Overturned coal cars still blocked the main line at the derailment site on Monday afternoon. Vince Webb HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Crews are working Tuesday to clean up a derailed Norfolk Southern coal train near Woodville, about 20 miles east of Huntsville in northern Alabama. The train derailed 26 cars on Monday morning, blocking a street […]
A light power move of Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern locomotives departs Bensenville Yard and passes through the Franklin Park, Ill., Metra station as a transfer cut with CSX locomotives arrives off the Indiana Harbor Belt. CP and Canadian National are in a dispute over their interchange location in the Chicago area. TRAINS: David Lassen […]
WASHINGTON — Railroads are likely to get an earful of opposition to their increased use of demurrage and accessorial charges at a federal regulatory hearing that has been expanded to a second day. Three dozen shippers, logistics firms, and trade groups representing a wide range of railroad customers are scheduled to appear at the Surface […]
