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UP-NS merger prompts railroads to seek trackage rights • BNSF, CPKC, CSX want new routes; short lines look to grow

VIA Rail’s new long-distance fleet to be built by Alstom in Canada • Ca$4.7 billion deal calls for 313 cars, including domes and panorama lounges

News photos

Arrivals & Departures • Federal court backs STB’s award of UP trackage rights to Metra

Company proposes direct O'Hare train service • Plans call for trains running every 15 minutes to and from downtown Chicago on route following existing Union Pacific, CSX, and Canadian National trackage

Echoes of UP-SP in bids for UP-NS trackage rights • Will BNSF, CPKC, and CSX proposals to boost competition win approval?

When the train has no crew, who runs to the problem? • Autonomous trains must be tested and proven under the most demanding of conditions

Two dome cars head for restoration • UP dome will return to operation; CB&Q dome readied for museum exhibit

Great Northern 4-6-2 No. 1355 restoration partnership ends • But work on operational rebuild will continue

In the holiday spirit

Out of the air, into the ground • New tank cars and a push to capture industrial CO2 could give railroads a new commodity

Radio silence? • Evolution in railroad communications has led to less chatter on your scanner

Star-spangled Spencer • America 250 Locomotive Celebration lives up to its billing as a once-in-a-lifetime event

Rolling stones • Norfolk Southern stone shuttles address construction demand

From Florida to Mexico • The Florida East Coast peddles its old 4-8-2s to NdeM

Rockin' across Iowa • The last days of the Rock Island and Milwaukee Road in 1980 — and a close encounter with a ditch

Run Dad! The troop train is leaving • Tucumcari Union Station, Two-Gun Harry’s nearly waylay a WWII sailor

Coming in January

Patriotic paint: U.S. locomotives wearing the red, white, and blue

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