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ALTOONA, Pa. – Norfolk Southern has put its A-B-B-A set of executive F unit locomotives up for auction, according to an assets-disposition bidding sheet distributed on Nov. 6 and obtained by Trains News Wire. Regularly assigned to NS’s office car train, the quartet was acquired in 2006 and rebuilt to GP38-2 standards by the railroad’s […]
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Currently used as a switcher, NJ Transit GP40H-2 No. 4109 will have HEP equipment installed for use on revenue trains. Ralph Spielman The Erie Lackawanna-scheme dual-mode ALP-46DP will, at least initially, be used on NJ Transit’s positive train control test train. Ralph Spielman NJ Transit’s Pennsylvania-scheme ALP-46A locomotive is expected to enter commuter service in […]
KEARNY, N.J. — NJ Transit unveiled three heritage locomotives Saturday at its annual Family Days event at its Meadows Maintenance Complex, and is scheduled to debut the locomotives for the general public on Tuesday. The three locomotives are GP40PH-2 No. 4109, repainted to a version of the Central of New Jersey livery it wore when […]
ERIE, Pa. — On Sept. 23, a new face in the modernized locomotive world made its appearance. CSX Transportation No. 7200, the first modernized CSX AC4400CW, was released at the Wabtec plant in Erie for testing. The unit was formerly CSX No. 202 and was in service up until this past April before being selected […]
Wabtec’s FDL Advantage program offers upgrades which aim to increase fuel economy for the widely-used prime mover by 5%. Wabtec MINNEAPOLIS — Aiming to extend both the life and value of the fleet of locomotives built by predecessor GE Transportation, Wabtec announced fleet modernization upgrades covering both the FDL prime mover and control platforms for […]
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EMD SDP45s were the last passenger locomotives Great Northern purchased. A few months after the Burlington Northern merger, SDP45 No. 9860 leads the Western Star at Eureka, Mont., on September 7, 1970. Doug Wingfield photo […]
On September 5, 1956, the Santa Fe’s Chief and Fast Mail collided at Robinson, N.M., killing 20 passengers and crew. Here, sleeping car Pine Rapids and an F unit from the Chief rest perpendicular to the tracks after the incident. Johnny Casick photo […]
A Pennsylvania Railroad T1 4-4-4-4 pauses with an eastbound train at Fort Wayne, Ind. The railroad had 52 such “duplex” steam locomotives, along with other wheel arrangements. Robert A. Hadley photo […]
An eastbound milk train from Ogdensburg, N.Y., passes the joint Rutland/Central Vermont station at Alburgh, Vt., in October 1951, behind green-and-yellow Alco RS3 No. 204. Jim Shaughnessy photo […]
In the Rocky Mountains, an agent hoops up orders to an eastbound freight at Thompson Falls, Mont., powered by W-5 class 2-8-2 No. 1849. John W. Maxwell photo […]
