A railroad car conversion apparatus is disclosed for enabling an open-topped railway car to carry diverse loads. The conversion apparatus comprises a frame (10) having a central beam (20) and a plurality of arms (30) for attaching to the top of the railway car. The apparatus is designed ...
pulls the car towards its destination, perhaps directly there, perhaps only to a rendezvous with another train which carries it on farther. Ultimately the railroad brings the car to its destination where the receiver of the cargo arranges to get the goods out of the carrying car. The ...
FreightWaves Click to close the product launchpad Home / News / Business /Federal Railroad Administration awards $2.4B in grants to 122 projects Projects in 41 states receive CRISI grants; short lines do well in funding process The selected projects, announced Tuesday, will receive more than $2.4...
The home road uses its own locomotives, crews, fuel etc. Process of monitoring freight order, freight car or shipment through its transportation lifecycle. This includes events such as train arrival, train departure, shipment notification etc. Customer may lease track from a railroad to spot or ...
The shift from coal to gas also has contributed to a drop in rejected energy, because natural gas power plants are more efficient than the coal-fired units they replace. All energy use and conversion results in some losses, shown on the charts as rejected energy. Last year saw 1 quad less...
At the time, per diem cost roughly $20 per day and since those cars rarely returned to home rails each car provided these systems with about $600 per month, roughly twice the rental charges. The concept worked great until a recession in the late 1970s saw a substantial downturn in busine...
conversion of an Athearn BB bay window caboose in NYC livery into a caboose for the home road is still on theWhat's Newpage. There is a brief 'how to' photo essay on the window tinting on theWhat's Newpage. Just 'click' on the thumbnail of the dome car or caboose to see the ...
In 1950, the developments spurred the West shops conversion into a diesel shop, which was the largest on the railroads line and handled all of the Friscos major locomotive repairs. State Library. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, known as the Frisco, was a dominant Traveling from north to ...
While I was down I developed The Durango Car Shop and the Car Barn for Gunnison. These are laser cut, with laser engraving on both sides I've branded as 2D2D. They both need instructions written and some final work, photos and so on. ...
On August 20, 2020, Locomotive #107, a 1,200 horsepower diesel locomotive, built by Alco- Montreal Locomotive Works in 1969, arrived at its new home in Durango after its lengthy journey from Skagwa… Continue Reading » A Look Back at the Restoration and Conversion of Locomotive 493 from...