FULL SCREEN Jack Delano, courtesy of the Library of Congress Santa Fe conductor George Burton tends the fire in the stove of his freight train’s caboose in March 1943. Burton lived in Chillicothe, Illinois, and worked the run between there and Corwith Yard in Chicago. FULL SCREEN Jack Delano, courtesy of the Library of Congress […]
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court seeking an injunction as relief from the Oregon Department of State Lands. The complaint alleges the state agency interfered with a reconstruction project and violated the company’s constitutional rights. Oregon Coast Scenic is the lessee and operator of the Port […]
One of UP’s eight Arrowedge experimental containers rests near the tracks on Milwaukee’s South Side after striking an overpass on Monday morning. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Mike De Sisti MILWAUKEE — Union Pacific is investigating how one of its eight experimental “Arrowedge” containers ended up striking three bridges in Wisconsin before falling off the train. […]
Watch Southern Railway 2-8-0 Consolidation No. 630 operating in main line excursion service out of Spencer, N.C., in June 2012. This locomotive’s sister, Southern Mikado 2-8-2 No. 4501, is the focus of a feature in the May 2014 issue of Trains. […]
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MOUNT UNION, Pa. — The East Broad Top Preservation Association has completed the purchase of another segment of the legendary narrow gauge railroad from the Kovalchick family. The purchase includes track and right-of-way from Mount Union to the Aughwick Creek bridge, about four miles, according to Association President Larry Salone. “It has been a long […]
In this polar vortex edition of Drew’s Trackside Adventure for March 2014, host Drew Halverson and the MRVP crew make their way along Canadian National’s Waukesha subdivision in eastern Wisconsin. They capture the railroad battling the elements and gravity over a 1-percent grade known as Byron Hill. In addition to the railroad action, the guys […]
Two Union Pacific trains idle side-by-side just west of Southwest Drive while waiting permission to continue east through the Cheyenne, Wyo., yard on Aug. 20, 2013. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
Canadian National train M345 bucks a drift at Leverett, Ill., in near-blizzard conditions on Jan. 6, 2014, with a pair of CSX ES44ACs in charge. Photo by Erik Coleman […]
BNSF Railway ES44DC No. 7339 heads up train U-TNDNSD through East Dubuque, Ill., on Jan. 19, 2014. The crude oil train will be interchanged to Norfolk Southern in Chicago for delivery to an East Coast refinery. Photo by Matt Krause […]
How many places in the United States can a railroad passenger travel more than 70 miles in one hour? This map spotlights those locations, based on the schedules in Amtrak’s Fall/Winter 2007 system timetable and its Spring 2008 Northeast Corridor timetable. (Where precise information was not available, the speeds factor in 1 minute of dwell […]
One of TTX’s new Dynastack well cars sits outside the Alabama plant. Chris Guss CHICAGO – FreightCar America has landed its first order for its Dynastack five-unit intermodal car. The order is for 50 five-unit, 40-foot well cars for delivery to TTX beginning in early 2014. The cars feature a lower tare weight than traditional […]
