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universal crossovers will be installed on the for- mer Atlantic Coast Line main between Weldon and Rocky Mount, N.C. to improve fluidity.
GATEWAY PROJECT OPENS TUNNELS: As the CSX National Gateway Project marches eastward, three historic tunnels have been eliminated on the former Baltimore & Ohio route in southwestern Pennsylvania to in- crease clearances for doublestack trains and to allow a second main track to close the single- track gap between Pinkerton and Brook. In October a new cut was finished, allowing the main line to bypass 1081-foot long Pinkerton Tunnel as it is daylighted; 307-foot long Shoo Fly Tunnel was also eliminated by mid-Octo- ber. Main tracks 1 and 2 follow separate routes between Brook and Confluence; work contin- ued on the removal of 406-foot Benford tunnel on Track 2 while nearby 1856-foot Brook Tun- nel on Track 1 will remain after having its overhead clearances increased.
Canadian Pacific
HARRISON CONFIRMS PLANS FOR CPR: During a long-awaited meeting with in- vestors on December 5, Canadian Pacific man- agement outlined the changes that have been made and are in the works at CPR. There was- n’t much new information: the humps have been closed at Calgary, Winnipeg, Bensenville (Chicago), Toronto, and Montréal; Calgary and Winnipeg now handle only local traffic; the small intermodal facilities at the Port of Mil- waukee, Schiller Park (Chicago), and Obico (Toronto), have been closed and consolidated with nearby operations; and streamlined oper- ations including making quicker crew changes and running longer trains with fewer blocks
Special Locomotive Paint Scheme Links Electro-Motive to New Owner
ELECTRO-MOTIVE DIESEL SD70ACE 1201 has been painted in Caterpillar yellow to high- light the connection between CAT and the locomotive builder, which it purchased in 2010. After being moved incognito to Las Vegas, Nev., where it was put on display at the MineEXPO Interna- tional trade show in September 2012, the distinctive unit made its public debut on October 20 (above) when it was put on display in Peoria, Ill., to help celebrate the opening of the new Cater- pillar visitor center. After that the big EMD led a Norfolk Southern train of Caterpillar equip- ment bound for export at Savannah, Ga. In early December No. 1201 was sent to Twin Oaks, Texas, where it was to be put on display at a Luminant Energy plant.
have reduced transit time, the number of trains run, and the number of crews, locomo- tives and cars needed. President and CEO E. Hunter Harrison said changes will be coming to the operating trades, as CPR crews average about half the average monthly mileage of
their counterparts on the other Class I roads. The customer service department is seen as
an obstacle between the operating department and customers and will be eliminated. So will 4500 jobs by 2016 including executive, sup- port, operations, and contract employees. In another cost-cutting move, CPR plans to va- cate its head office in a downtown Calgary, Al- berta, skyscraper in favor of cheaper digs situ- ated adjacent to nearby Alyth Yard. The day before the investor meeting, CPR announced that all former Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern trackage west of Tracy, Minn., would be spun off to a “low-cost” operator. Har- rison said DM&E’s traffic doesn’t justify the in- vestment needed to upgrade the line, not sur- prising after the railroad announced the day before that it would not build the proposed DM&E extension into the Powder River Basin coalfields of Wyoming. In the east, Harrison declared that the for-
mer Delaware & Hudson has not been prof- itable since it was acquired in 1991. While the D&H line between Montréal and the Port of Al- bany N.Y., handles a considerable number of unit trains moving Bakken crude oil and ethanol to Albany and destinations in southern New England, Harrison said that if it were more profitable to hand that traffic off to Nor- folk Southern or CSX in Chicago or Buffalo in- stead of running it through Canada on an all- CPR route, he would do it.
Baltimore & Ohio No. 25 Steams at Reenactment
BUILT IN 1856, BALTIMORE & OHIO NO. 25 WILLIAM MASON is the oldest operation steam engine in the country and is rarely seen or photographed outside the museum. It runs only one weekend per year and may not run again for some time since it’s due for its 15-year inspection. On October 13, 2012, The immaculately-restored, authentic Civil War-era American passed a Union encampment at Camp Carroll during the museum’s Railfest Steam Days.
Genesee & Wyoming Industries
PLANS NEW QUÉBEC ORE BRANCH: As worldwide demand for high grade iron ore from far eastern Québec and Labrador contin- ues to increase, Genesee and Wyoming has an- nounced plans for the construction of a 12.6-
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