The "whale back" or loaf of bread tenders were originally regular vanderbilt tenders. Due to fatigue issues and to increase water supply, the...
It did go through the CRP ending up in blue and white and renumbered to 4424. The RI didn't chop the noses during the CRP. Rather the 1275/4424...
The STB does not regulate railroads as to items like crew consist. The FRA would be the one, IF there was a federal law on the subject. There...
The 4014 has the PTC screen and controls, but still needs the trailing engine's electronics for now for PTC to work. From what I've read they are...
Distributed power consists don't immediately go to idle when they lose communication with the head end lead consist. They'll maintain the last...
Technically, that end of the connection between the ex CNW and ex RI is Chicago Jct. Kansas City (KC) Jct is the other end on the ex CNW...
That 1931 date is when a bus subsidiary jointly owned by CNW and UP bought Ft Dodge Des Moines and Southern Transportation Co. That was a bus...
NS still provides service to Des Moines, but the traffic is handled in BNSF trains via haulage rights. That's since the line from Moberly MO to...
I don't believe the CNW had control after 1931. It remained independent until 1968 when CNW acquired it and the DM&CI. The Salzburg interests...
This might help. http://signals.jovet.net/rules/UPRR%20Signal%20Rules.pdf For those interested in other railroads. http://signals.jovet.net/rules/
From reports of people who lived in the area at the time, the ATSF asked some of the states on the route if money could be made available to help...
The RI did sell the St Louis to Santa Rosa NM trackage. The agreement to sell this line was formalized before the directed service and final shut...
The media wouldn't suggest that. The media would suggest that the conductor should've steered it out of the way.
The UP's large exRI yard is Short Line Yard. The other UP yard is Hull Avenue Yard. The BNSF has a yard, which is also used by the NS, on the...
According to information in "Iowa Railroads, the essays of Frank P. Donovan Jr." which is a reprint of articles he did for the Iowa State...
Where the UP has installed concrete ties in my area, they have also gone to concrete ties for the switches. Both for high speed, powered turnouts...
Branch line south out of Belle Plaine, IA. Not iron ore, but coal. The mines supplied (and some were owned) by the C&NW. Mines started playing...
Buffalo hide. I think it was in the 70th anniversary history (1922, reprinted in the 1970s and again a few years back) where it was said a...
