Articles Tagged: Railroads

Hundreds of people from across Iowa and perhaps beyond gathered in the Benton County city of Belle Plaine on Thursday to see the world’s largest operating steam locomotive in action.

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference filed its strike notice against Canadian National shortly after it announced that it plans to challenge a government order that forced it into arbitration with both CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. railroads to end a lockout, said union spokesperson Marc-André Gauthier.

Union Pacific’s Big Boy due in Belle Plaine and Cedar Rapids after Labor Day.

A passenger train on its way to a stop in Marion in 1959 derailed near Atkins

In Cedar Rapids’ delayed quest to establish “quiet zones” to reduce the number of train horns sounding throughout downtown and NewBo, city staff anticipate the first phase will be complete within approximately the next year. Some City Council members were skeptical of the completion.

The move comes in the wake of a fiery derailment last year of a train carrying toxic chemicals in eastern Ohio that set off evacuations, a federal investigation and concerns about the effect the derailment and the fire could have on health and the environment.

Closures aim to stop migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico via trains, but Iowa Republicans say the move will slow transport of Iowa exports

The purchase of the Iowa rail line adds 275 track miles to the Canadian line.

Agricultural products make up most of regional carrier’s business

The world’s first, and longest, one crossed the Mississippi at Marquette

The promise of a "robust rail network" led to federal approval of a train merger that is expected to deliver considerably more train traffic to several cities in Eastern Iowa.

The first major railroad merger in more than two decades will go forward after federal regulators approved Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern. The two are the smallest among the nations seven major railroads, but their coupling will create the only railroad linking Canada, Mexico and the United States.

The transloading hub will provide a place to transfer cargo between railcars and trucks and also lower greenhouse emissions. Construction is expected to start this spring, with the facility ready for use by mid- to late summer.

Freight trains have been getting longer — nearly 3 miles in some cases. But railroads say it’s up to the federal -- not state -- government to decide.

We should all be counting our blessings this Christmas that a railway strike will indeed not happen