Santa Rides the CN

Here’s the schedule for this weekend’s upcoming CN/IC Santa Train in NorthEastCentral Illinois, after this “more”.

Rain in the Northwest? Now, I’ve Seen Everything…

This time, the rain is coming down in buckets, along with hurricane force winds. Seattle reported that it received it’s second highest daily rain total ever, which must be quite a lot. Anyway, all this wet stuff is having quite an effect on the railroads in the area this week.
Sound Transit’s Sounder train from Everett [...]

UP Delivers the Coal

 

Looks like UP managed to break their own records for Powder River basin coal train loading in the month of November as the utilities are bracing for a long cold winter. There are some pretty impressive stats being broken here:

” A consecutive seven-day record set was set [...]

Amtrak Crash on Chicago’s South Side

Surely you’ve heard about this already, but it seems Friday’s version of Amtrak’s inbound Pere Marquette train attempted to recreate the end of the movie Silver Streak, but was interrupted well before crashing through the walls of Union Station by a Norfolk Southern stack train. The leading P42 rode up on the last stack car [...]