A view of containerships at the rail terminal in Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Port of Prince Rupert via Twitter PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – Canadian National will get another intermodal boost from the fast-growing Port of Prince Rupert, which on Tuesday announced a container port expansion that should be complete in 2022. The port […]
You don’t need to go west to find the mountains. Canadian Pacific ES440AC No. 8800 is down to hardly a crawl going up and over the Niagara Escarpment on the Galt Sub between Milton and Guelph Junction, Ontario. Photo by Brandon Muir […]
A southbound Amtrak Acela Express overtakes an outbound empty Norfolk Southern oil train on the Northeast Corridor lead by the Central of New Jersey-painted heritage unit near Elkton, Md., on Jan. 4, 2015. Photo by Michael S. Murray […]
Recent heavy rains have caused standing water in many parts of central Ohio. Here, Norfolk Southern No. 5228 shoves local L55 over the former Pennsylvania Railroad “Panhandle” main line to pick up some cars at Circleville Ag, just east of downtown Circleville, Ohio. Photo by Carlos Ferran […]
On Feb. 18, 2018, the 10,000th delivery of a Boeing 737 fuselage manufactured in Wichita, Kan., arrived in Seattle on car MTTX 971483. Note the “10,000 Deliveries” marking spray-painted ahead of the wing base. Photo by David Honan […]
“A Set-Out and a Pick-up” was the second place winner in the model category in the recent video contest of the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. The video was produced by Bob Wundrock on his HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie layout. […]
“A Set-Out and a Pick-up” was the second place winner in the model category in the recent video contest of the South Central Wisconsin Division – NMRA. The video was produced by Bob Wundrock on his HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie layout. […]
Two Seaboard Coast Line GP40s lead a fast piggyback train through Neuse, N.C., a few miles north of Raleigh on the former Seaboard Air Line main line in June 1979. Curt Tillotson Jr. photo […]
For their final two days in Alberta, Canada, Drew and The Crew find new places and perspectives for railfanning over Yellowhead Pass. Take a ride with Mike and KJ aboard a VIA Rail Canada regional run, before rejoining Drew (and some of his grizzly friends) for one last dash along CN’s Edson and Albreda Subdivisions. Don’t […]
For their final two days in Alberta, Canada, Drew and The Crew find new places and perspectives for railfanning over Yellowhead Pass. Take a ride with Mike and KJ aboard a VIA Rail Canada regional run, before rejoining Drew (and some of his grizzly friends) for one last dash along CN’s Edson and Albreda Subdivisions. Don’t […]
Dots painted on trilevel auto racks indicate clearance heights. Rob Burnet Q I have seen colored painted dots on freight cars, mostly multilevel auto rack cars. What do they signify? – Rob Burnet, Etobicoke, Ont., Canada A Colored marks on auto multi-levels are to designate slightly different deck height clearances on trilevels. Orange dots indicate […]
CALGARY, Alberta — Canadian Pacific has wrestled some international intermodal traffic away from congested rival Canadian National. Beginning April 1, CP will begin hauling 85 percent of the Ocean Network Express traffic at the Port of Vancouver, CEO Keith Creel told investor conferences last week. Ocean Network Express, or ONE, is the new combination of […]
