July 31, 2014 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Washington Post, July 29, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A scene straight out of an action movie played out in real life on an 80-foot high railroad bridge outside Bloomington, Ind., on July 10: Two women on the Shuffle Creek trestle tried to outrun an approaching...
July 29, 2014 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: The Tennessean, July 21, 2014) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s 18 short-line railroads have long depended on a 7 percent sales tax on diesel fuel for locomotives to pay for track maintenance and upgrades. But under challenge from the state’s big...
July 29, 2014 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Indianapolis Star, July 27, 2014) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Rising fuel costs have spurred a new rail road boom in Central Indiana. Indiana Rail Road, based in Indianapolis, recently rebuilt eight crossings on the Southside and plans to finish two more by August....
June 26, 2014 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: TV Guide, June 24, 2014) NEW YORK — Caleb Bankston, who competed on “Survivor: Blood vs. Water,” died Tuesday in a train accident, TMZ reports. A locomotive engineer and conductor for the Alabama Warrior Railway, Bankston, 26, was working on one of the trains...
June 9, 2014 | Headlines, Short Line
(Source: The News Tribune, June 6, 2014) TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma Rail will soon begin repowering its oldest locomotive thanks in part to a grant accepted Thursday by the Port of Tacoma from the Environmental Protection Agency. Full story: The News...
June 3, 2014 | CP, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, June 2, 2014) LINCOLN, Neb. — Genesee & Wyoming Inc., a publicly traded short-line railroad company, announced that its new subsidiary Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad Inc. completed the acquisition of the west end of the...
May 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Bangor Daily News, May 15, 2014) BANGOR, Maine — As sale documents were being completed, the man taking over the former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway was at the Spectacular Events Center in Bangor on Thursday afternoon to share the new management’s...
May 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, May 15, 2014) PORTLAND, Maine — The sale of the Maine-based railroad responsible for a deadly oil train derailment in Quebec is nearly final. Chapter 11 trustee Robert Keach said the $15.85 million sale of bankrupt Montreal, Maine and...
May 15, 2014 | Accident, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review, May 14, 2014. BLET editor’s note: Andrew Monheim was a member of BLET Division 700 in Braddock, Pa., and had belonged to the Brotherhood for more than 31 years at the time of his passing in 2010.) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The family...
May 9, 2014 | CP, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Rapid City Journal, May 9, 2014) RAPID CITY, S.D. — Rapid City will be headquarters of the former DM&E Railroad operations as soon as June 1, according to the general manager for the new Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad. Full story: Rapid City...
