Trains Presents takes you to the marvelous Montana Rail Link in its latest installment! Check out the heavy mainline action, see the railroad’s all-EMD roster, enjoy run-through trains from BNSF Railway, and find out just what is a “Gas Local!” And be sure to check out the Trains‘ Montana Rail Link photo diesel roster and […]
Henry M. Flagler’s personal business car on the Florida East Coast, No. 90, is now up for sale. Ozark Mountain Railcar website NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — If you want to live like a railroad tycoon, at least a little, you’d be hard pressed to do any better than own the private railroad car of one of […]
Pioneer Railcorp GP16 No. 1603 leads a westbound Napoleon, Defiance & Western train at Antwerp, Ohio, on Oct. 17, 2014, with just seven cars in tow. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Former Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 on the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad passes under the BNSF Railway “Race Track” at LaGrange, Ill., on June 10, 2016, en route to the 2016 Franklin Park Railroad Days. Photo by Benjamin J. Muciek […]
A Florida East Coast liquefied natural gas revenue train on June 10. Michael Maiullari Florida East Coast Railway tested its first revenue-service liquefied natural gas locomotives and tender consist on an overnight Jacksonville, Fla., to Miami train June 8. Shortly after sunrise June 10, the revenue train returned north as FEC train 226. That northbound […]
A Wisconsin Great Northern railroader checks on the first revenue load for the tourist railroad-turned short line. Steve Smedley Trego, Wis. Google Maps TREGO, Wis. — Wisconsin short line Wisconsin Great Northern, long known for its popular “bed and breakfast” tourist trains train powered by former Chicago & North Western F7 No. 423, has loaded […]
Two new Florida East Coast ES44C4 locomotives hustle train No. 210 north out of St. Augustine, Fla., on Jan. 13, 2014. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Chase Gunnoe CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A shortline railroad will breathe new life into a Class I railroad line that was partially mothballed in West Virginia earlier this year. Watco companies will acquire more than 300 miles of Norfolk Southern tracks in West Virginia and Ohio, including the majority of its West Virginia Secondary route and […]
Northbound Florida East Coast train No. 226 snakes through St. Augustine, Fla., America’s oldest city, on Jan. 12, 2015. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Northbound Florida East Coast train No. 224 peers through the fog at Stratten Road between St. Augustine and Jacksonville, Fla., on Jan. 12, 2015. Photo by Brian Schmidt […]
Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. – The Reading & Northern Railroad, through its Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway operation, will offer a number of RDC fan trips over its lines during the summer months. This marks the first use of the silver Budd-built cars in 15 years. Nos. 9166 and 9168 have been overhauled […]
A pair of Iowa Pacific E units rolls west with an excursion train in tow on Wisconsin & Southern’s Prairie Subdivision near Muscoda, Wis., on June 21, 2014. Photo by Matt Krause […]
