A year ago, the Canadian Pacific Railroad acquired the Kansas City Southern Railroad, creating a continuous rail from Mexico to Canada. But some in northwest suburban communities it runs through say it's been nothing but a headache.
Electrification of railroads North American freight trains are powered by diesel locomotives. Before the diesels, steam engines did the work. Electric trains have a niche hauling passengers in the Northeast. Everyone knows this short history of motive power development, but it’s not quite the whole story. Early electrification of railroads “Diesels,” of course, are properly []Read More
Tips for keeping your model railroad layout clean: A clean layout is fun to run, fun to work on, and fun to look at. Unfortunately, the three D’s – dust, dirt and debris – are in season all year long and can make keeping a layout clean a constant, time-consuming job. Here are a few []Read More
Tegucigalpa, Mar 19 (Prensa Latina) Government officials are betting on constructing the Interoceanic Railroad, a project considered a leading factor for developing the country and the region. The post Honduras bets on interoceanic railroad project first appeared on Prensa Latina.
The massive Maine Central Railroad Building resides next to the lot of the former Union Station, which was torn down in 1963.
Fresh off of running the RNC into the ground, Ronna McDaniel has a new job as an NBC News analyst. It was a predictable move given political hangers-on rarely go away quietly. Instead, they find their next landing spot, parroting whatever they must to keep the money flowing in.
Tucked away in a drawer, I discovered a “Model Railroad Equipment Buyer’s Guide 1965-66” booklet, published by Kalmbach Publishing. It contained a variety of books, tools, and yes, model trains. While the majority of the booklet focused on HO scale trains, page seven was a surprise. It contains several American Flyer train sets and scenic []Read More
The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes.
The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the circumstances the National Transportation Safety Board described Tuesday in its preliminary report on the March 2 derailment would have triggered the automated positive train control []
DUQUESNE, Pa. — Pittsburgh’s Union Railroad is buying 13 acres of the former U.S. Steel Duquesne Works to develop a transload facility, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. The railroad purchased the land from the Regional Industrial Development Corp. for $400,000 to develop a facility for truck-to-rail and rail-to-truck transloading, according to the development agency’s president, Don []Read More
DARPA has tasked Northrop Grumman Corporation to come up with a plan for a railroad network on the Moon. The transportation system would be used to move humans, supplies, and other resources around the lunar surface, the US military contractor said, strengthening the creation of a proper "space economy" forRead Entire Article
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