There’s something special about riding a trolley. A number of years ago, while visiting a friend in Maine, she took me to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport. It was a fascinating place full of vintage transit pieces. For the admission price, you could ride the trolley as many times as you liked around the […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian Pacific Kansas City CEO Keith Creel says his railway is making its own luck at a time when trade tensions, economic uncertainty, and plenty of truck capacity are roadblocks to volume growth. “We create solutions instead of excuses,” Creel told an investor conference on Wednesday. Among them: Boosting traffic between Canada and […]
WASHINGTON — While Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern prepare to file a revised merger application in late April, federal regulators are requesting specific data related to their proposal to create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. The request for documents to be submitted prior to the revised application likely could include highly sensitive data related to […]
An Electro-Motive Division SD7 is one of the latest additions to the ScaleTrains Rivet Counter line. The HO scale model, based on a prototype from the early 1950s, features injection-molded plastic and die-cast metal construction; factory-applied, prototype-specific details; and metal semi-scale Type E couplers painted a rusty color. Prototype history Electro-Motive Division produced the SD7 […]
WASHINGTON — Carload, intermodal and overall U.S. rail traffic remained narrowly ahead of 2025 levels in the week ending March 14, 2026, according to the Association of American Railroads. AAR figures show total traffic for the week was 508,737 carloads and intermodal units, a 1.1% increase over the same week a year ago. The 228,299 […]
WASHINGTON — A Canadian National train making a shove move backed into Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, then backed up and hit the passenger train a second time, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary report on the Feb. 22, 2026, collision near Memphis. The incident at about 11 a.m. led to minor […]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Transit Administration has issued a Special Directive requiring the Illinois Department of Transportation to take 11 actions to improve its oversight of the Chicago Transit Authority. The FTA also has launched a Safety Management Inspection of IDOT. The directive issued Tuesday says that the FTA has determined IDOT’s State Safety Oversight […]
WASHINGTON — The spike in energy prices since the start of the Iran conflict could be a blessing or a curse, Norfolk Southern executives say. It’s clear that the dramatic increase in fuel prices will increase the railroad’s first-quarter costs by $20 million to $30 million — and that the NS fuel surcharge program will […]
MISSOURI CITY, Texas — Two passengers suffered minor injuries on Tuesday, March 17, when Amtrak’s Sunset Limited hit a truck hauling a container at a grade crossing, NBC News reports. Missouri City Fire Chief Mario Partida said crews responded to the accident around 11 a.m. local time. Two minor injuries were treated at the scene, […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian National’s volume is running slightly ahead of expectations so far this year as operations held up well during winter, Chief Operating Officer Patrick Whitehead says. Car velocity is up 10% compared with last year, while train speed is up 6% and terminal dwell is down 6%, he told an investor conference on […]
HAMMOND, Ind. — South Shore Line commuter service on its new Monon Corridor branch is set to begin Tuesday, March 31, according to the Northern Indiana Commuter Transit District. The 8-mile right-of-way, a segment of a route that once hosted Monon’s Thoroughbred to Louisville, Ky., and the Tippecanoe and Hoosier to Indianapolis before rails were […]
DALLAS — Some equipment from Minnesota’s defunct Northstar commuter rail operation has found a new home in the Lone Star State. Two of the Northstar’s MPI MP36PH0-3C locomotives and eight of its bilevel Bombardier coaches were photographed on Tuesday, March 17, en route from the Twin Cities to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. They have been […]
