Take a look at the final month of Norfolk Southern subsidiary Triple Crown Services, before its 2015 retrenchment. You’ll see a variety of motive power with this unique RoadRailer freight equipment that is now largely retired. Only from Trains Magazine! For another look at the Triple Crown RoadRailer trains, check out our Triple Crown’s Fort […]
Take a look at the final month of Norfolk Southern subsidiary Triple Crown Services, before its 2015 retrenchment. You’ll see a variety of motive power with this unique RoadRailer freight equipment that is now largely retired. Only from Trains Magazine! For another look at the Triple Crown RoadRailer trains, check out our Triple Crown’s Fort […]
Two Navajo locomotives roll west on NS train No. 309 on Saturday. Michael D. Harding FARMINGTON, N.M. – Two new diesel locomotives are en route to the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. coal mine railroad in northwestern New Mexico this week. The General Electric ET44AC locomotives, which are lettered for the company and carry Nos. 2026 […]
Norfolk Southern crane No. 514892MW displays its Ohio Locomotive Crane heritage at Lawrenceburg, Ky., in August 2011. Thomas E. Hoffmann ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota-based IPS Cranes has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire American & Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. of Bucyrus, Ohio. IPS will provide customers with a greater range of services that […]
O GAUGE SD60E DIESEL FROM MTH ELECTRIC TRAINS Price: $499.95 (no. 20-20594-2) Min Curve: O-42 Cmd Low: 5.9 smph Cnv Low: 6.8 smph High: 71.9 smph Drawbar pull: 1 lb., 9.6 oz. Features: Two can-style motors, ProtoSound 3.0 command and sound system, smoke unit, coil couplers Current production road name: Norfolk Southern The Norfolk Southern […]
N&W No. 611 rides across a bridge near Goodview, Va., Jan. 6 as it makes its way from Roanoke Va., to Spencer, N.C., for service. Samuel Phillips ROANOKE, Va. — The Virginia Transportation Museum is considering letting its centerpiece attraction, Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 roam farther from home. According to Roanoke TV station […]
CP CEO Keith Creel Canadian Pacific NEW YORK — Canadian Pacific and CSX Transportation are discussing a joint marketing and operating agreement that would, among other things, create run-through trains to bypass choke points in Chicago. “We’ve had some discussions with CSX operationally as well as commercially,” CP CEO Keith Creel told an investor conference […]
A Norfolk Southern conductor rides a tank car during a switching move at the CSX Transportation-NS interchange in Point Pleasant, W.Va., in September 2013. Chase Gunnoe WASHINGTON — There are 4,000 fewer Class I railroad employees than there were at this time last year, according to new data published this week by the Surface Transportation […]
HO scale locomotives Illinois Central Paducah, Ky.,-rebuilt GP10 diesel locomotive. New paint schemes: Arizona & Eastern (Genesee & Wyoming scheme, two road numbers), Bloomer Line (two numbers), Carlton Trail Ry. (four numbers), Central Kansas Ry. (Okanagan Valley Ry. patchout, two numbers), Gulf & Mississippi (one number), Hudson Bay Ry. (one number), Louisiana & Delta (Genesee […]
HO scale locomotives Electro-Motive Division GP39-2 diesel locomotive. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Burlington Northern (two road numbers); BNSF Ry. (Burlington Northern patchout in two numbers); Delaware & Hudson (blue and yellow and blue with yellow nose in two numbers each); Missouri-Kansas-Texas; and Union Pacific. Four numbers per scheme unless noted. Direct-current model, $179.98; with […]
NEWPORT, R.I. — Omya, a producer of calcium carbonate that’s an essential ingredient in paper manufacturing, had an expensive problem: It had to resort to using as many as 300 trucks per quarter to ship product from its Vermont plant to paper mills in Maine. The struggling mills, facing long-term declines in paper demand and […]
Circus wagons are loaded onto flat cars in Charleston, W.Va., in preparation for the last circus train run to Uniondale, N.Y. Chase Gunnoe CSXT ET44AC No. 3333 will lead the last ‘Blue’ unit circus train to Uniondale, N.Y., form Charleston, W.Va. Here, Watco’s Kanawha River Railroad is switching the train in preparation for its outbound […]
