UPDATE 2 – 19.August.2021 19.August, Thomaston ME – Dragon Cement, one of three industrial shippers on the Maine Rockland Branch, will cease shipping cement east via rail to Rockland’s South End terminal, beginning 2022. Dragon has used the terminal to load cement on to barges for short-sea shipping to Boston and other locations. Dragon will […]
Steel ties have the potential to properly function for 50-plus years.
26.June.2021, Geneva NY – Finger Lakes Railway is upgrading most of the wood ties at Geneva Yard to steel. Installation of ~700 steel ties and eight all-steel switches is nearly complete. Steel ties have been used successfully by other railroads throughout the United States. The decision to use steel ties was based upon long-term economics. […]
25.February, Washington, DC – After multiple delays and a period of silence, the STB issued a decision on 24.February denying reconsideration of the original conditional approval of the CN/B&LE acquisition of the CSXT Massena Line. On 6.April.2020 the STB authorized, subject to conditions, the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, an indirect wholly owned rail […]