SEATTLE — Amazon has joined Walmart in fielding a fleet of 53-foot containers for intermodal service, according to the Journal of Commerce. Amazon will break convention by dealing directly with railroads, bypassing intermodal marketing companies. Walmart’s relationship with railroads is both direct and through the marketing companies. Amazon recently established a third-party logistics organization and […]
A 104-car BNSF tank train travels around the layout at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. This train’s prototype hauled crude oil from Canadian oil fields to Texas. […]
A 104-car BNSF tank train travels around the layout at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. This train’s prototype hauled crude oil from Canadian oil fields to Texas. […]
MONTREAL — Canadian National has announced ongoing intermodal relationships with two ocean carriers, Evergreen Line and COSCO Shipping. CN and Evergreen’s new intermodal agreement extends a 27-year relationship between the companies and includes Evergreen’s usage of such CN-served ports as Vancouver, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. COSCO has chosen CN as its […]
As Hurricane Dorian brushes the East Coast, railroads continue to modify operations in anticipation of serious problems if the storm makes landfall. With Florida East Coast Railway shut down since Saturday, Norfolk Southern has embargoed intermodal traffic destined for FEC, along with Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., where ports are closed. NS officials are advising […]
CSX train B778 works on the Massena Line in Adam’s Center, N.Y., near Watertown, earlier this month. The S on the milepost in the foreground refers to miles to Syracuse, N.Y. CSX is selling the Massena line, connecting Syracuse and Montreal, to CN in a deal announced Thursday. Michael S. Murray MONTREAL – Canadian National will […]
Scientists now say that noisy freight trains could be used to help predict future earthquakes. According to information published by Physicsworld.com scientists from France, Belgium, and the U.S., say they’ve shown that the noise of a freight train — thrumming motors, squeaks, squeals, and other rolling noises — is sufficient to measure the condition of underlying […]
A BNSF Railway intermodal train heads east through Lisle, Ill., in June 2019. Continuing escalation of the U.S.-China trade war puts more forms of rail cargo at risk. TRAINS: David Lassen WASHINGTON — Large-volume customers that U.S. and Canadian railroads count on are increasingly being hit by the escalating China trade war. Agriculture and automobiles are […]
An Alaska Railroad freight makes it way through Healy Canyon, near Garner., where a retaining wall failed Aug. 17. The wall is just south of the bridge, five cars ahead of the distributed power, near the center of the photograph. Frank Keller ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Summer 2019 has been unusual for Alaska with record breaking […]
As a streetcar rolls by, Missouri Pacific 0-8-0 9721 and caboose have tied on to stalled 2-10-2 helper 1716 and 4-8-4 road engine 2111. Soon the three engines begin to march up Missouri’s Kirkwood Hill in March 1946. Joe Collias photo […]
A headache for trailer-on-flatcar ramp operations happened when flatcars arrived facing the wrong direction. This Milwaukee Road car goes for a spin on a turntable in 1969. Gerald R. Rademacher photo […]
Southern Pacific Extra 6311 East climbs fog-shrouded Donner Pass in October 1957. This view from the caboose shows a four-unit F7 helper set 18 cars ahead. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
