GREEN RIVER, Wyo. — OmniTRAX has signed a long-term switching agreement to serve the Wyoming facility that produces Arm & Hammer baking soda. The Church and Dwight facility in Green River, built in 1968, produces pharmaceutical-grade sodium bicarbonate at the site where the trona ore is mined. Wyoming is home to 90% of the world’s […]
DENVER — The Front Range Passenger Rail District has extended the voting for its Name the Train contest by a week to March 30, citing strong interest in the balloting. More than 18,000 Colorado residents voted in the first 72 hours, the agency said. “With thousands of Coloradans already participating, it’s been exciting to watch […]
ESSEX, Mont. — The former Izaak Walton Inn is up for sale. A listing on a real estate website — restored as of Tuesday morning, March 17, after being removed for part of Monday — says the recently closed LOGE Glacier hotel is being offered for $18 million. It describes the facility on 89.87 acres […]
CENTRALIA, Wash. — A mudslide south of Centralia on Friday, March 13, has triggered a BNSF-imposed ban for occupied passenger trains through the area, resulting in cancellation of all Amtrak Cascades Seattle-Portland service. Trains won’t resume until Monday, March 16, though already-ticketed Cascades and Coast Starlight passengers are being offered substitute bus transportation during the […]
DENVER — Colorado residents can now vote to name the train for the Fort Collins-Pueblo rail passenger service planned by the Front Range Passenger Rail District. Name-the-train voting will be held through March 23 at this page of the Front Range Passenger Rail website, and can choose from four finalists selected by the district: Colorado […]
DENVER — The Front Range Passenger Rail District has scheduled the first in a series of town hall meetings to hear from residents as part of the ongoing planning for proposed service between Fort Collins and Pueblo, Colo. The first meeting is Thursday, Feb. 26, in Colorado Springs, followed by meetings in Pueblo on March […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Some 27 whistle stops are planned along with four public display days on the western tour of Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014, which begins March 29 with departure from Cheyenne. UP today announced the full schedule for the western trip, the first part of a planned coast-to-coast journey, in an email […]
TOPPENISH, Wash. — Former Northern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 1364 moved under its own power for the first time in 73 years on Feb. 21, according to a Facebook post from the Northern Pacific Railway Museum. The initial run caps a decades-long restoration effort by museum volunteers. “This moment represents years of hard work by our volunteers, […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Beginning April 7 from Denver and April 10 from Salt Lake City, Rocky Mountaineer’s U.S. brand, Canyon Spirit, will begin operating weekly “Rockies to Red Rocks” round trips. These travel on the California Zephyr’s route plus passage over Union Pacific’s Cane Creek branch in Utah through mid-November. However, there are no […]
ESSEX, Mont. — LOGE Glacier, the former Izaak Walton Inn beloved by railfans for its location adjacent to BNSF Railway’s Northern Transcon route and Glacier National Park, will close next month because its parent company is in financial distress. LOGE Camps is slated to close all its operations, the Flathead Beacon reports. The LOGE website […]
The Rio Grande equipped both ends of the Moffat Tunnel with high-pressure car-washing sprayers to clean windows in preparation for the splendid views ahead. This is a view out the east portal in 1949. W. H. Mitchell photo […]
PUEBLO, Colo. — MxV Rail is launching a student travel grant program to enable future rail researchers and engineers to attend this year’s Association of American Railroads Research Review, set for April 28-30, 2026, at MxV Rail’s facility in Pueblo. The program will provide up to $1,500 in travel reimbursement for the event as well […]
