Trains LIVE — Passenger Columnist Bob Johnston

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Trains LIVE — Passenger Columnist Bob Johnston Trains LIVE — 08-24-2022 — this week, Bob Lettenberger talks with Trains Magazine’s own Passenger Columnist Bob Johnston to talk about the best and brightest of Amtrak during Trains.com’s #amtrakweek! Trains LIVE is a regular video segment, recorded live and unscripted from Kalmbach Media. The series began in July […]

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Work to resume shortly on Maryland’s Purple Line project

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BETHESDA, Md. — Work on Maryland’s long-delayed Purple Line light rail project should resume in earnest after Labor Day, WTOP radio reports. Laborers’ International Union of North America has signed a collective bargaining agreement with Maryland Transit Solutions, the new contractor set to finish the line, with the union’s business manager, Steve Lanning, telling the […]

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The first Dreyfuss Hudson

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Among the most recognizable of all steam locomotive designs is the New York Central J-3a Hudson as styled by industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss for the 1938 20th Century Limited. Just-completed No. 5445, the first of the 10 streamlined 4-6-4s, stands outside the Alco plant at Schenectady, N.Y. Classic Trains coll. […]

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Paragraph in Presidential Emergency Board report stokes controversy

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WASHINGTON – Rank-and-file members of rail labor are critical of a paragraph in the Presidential Emergency Board report that says railroads believe their workers have not contributed in any way to the industry’s record profits. The Presidential Emergency Board, whose duty was to help settle the contract impasse between unionized workers and the U.S. railroads, […]

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Trains LIVE — Union Pacific’s Ed Dickens

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Trains LIVE — Union Pacific’s Ed Dickens Trains LIVE — 08-17-2022 — this week, Bob Lettenberger talks with Union Pacific’s Ed Dickens about Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014! Trains LIVE is a regular video segment, recorded live and unscripted from Kalmbach Media. The series began in July 2022. Trains LIVE features Bob Lettenberger, Trains associate editor, […]

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