Amtrak California locomotives to exceed EPA emission standards   The California Department of Transportation’s (Caltrans) intercity passenger-rail program will be the first in the nation to start converting a fleet of locomotives to emission-control standards exceeding current U.S. Environmental Projection Agency (EPA) requirements, Caltrans officials said in a prepared statement. Caltrans will use $190 million [...]

  Innkeeper Note:  DAVID BAER is back with another interesting Norfolk Southern photo from a location minutes from The FALLSTON FLAGSTOP Railan B&B… Here is a shot from back on 10/18.  I ran into this EB empty hopper train at Rochester.  What made it interesting was the power, a GP38-3 leading a D9 and a [...]

  The Roanoke Chapter of the NRHS is pleased to present two fall foliage excursions, departing from downtown Roanoke’s historic ex-N&W station (now home to the O.Winston Link Museum) on Saturday, November 5th and Sunday, November 6th. Retracing the historic Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, Saturday’s trip will run from Roanoke, through Radford, to Abingdon, VA, [...]

  Innkeeeper Note:  DAVID BAER spotted a quartet of SD38′s at CONWAY YARD today, sending us the following note…  On my way home from work today, 4 former CR/NS SD38′s were sitting at Conway.  The units were CEFX 6051-6054, former NS 3805-3808.  The 6051 was still in CR blue paint.  Also still sitting at Conway [...]