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at its destination in the morning. The night train would include sleeping cars as well as coaches, and only run during the summer season. Both operations would use St. Lawrence & Atlantic trackage for the bulk of their runs between St. Hyacinthe, Québec, and Danville Junction, Maine, but would also run over Pan Am Railways from Danville Junction to Portland and Boston, and use Canadian National trackage between Mon- tréal and St. Hyacinthe.


Siemens Rail Systems


WILL SELL PASSENGER DIESELS: Siemens Rail Systems, which is currently delivering 70 electric passenger locomotives to Amtrak, has announced that it will enter the North American diesel passenger loco- motive market. The company plans to intro- duce a 125-m.p.h. passenger locomotive de- signed around the 16-cylinder Cummins QSK95 diesel engine that will meet PRIIA (Passenger Rail Investment and Improve- ment Act) 305-005 Next Generation Locomo- tive specifications. (At the moment, only the 4700-h.p., Caterpillar-powered Electro-Mo- tive Diesel F125 Spirit meets those require- ments.) Siemens will assemble the locomo- tives at its plant in Sacramento, Calif., while Cummins will build the QSK95 in Seymour, Ind. Siemens and Cummins are already working on Tier 4 repower packages for heavy haul freight locomotives, with a prototype under development for testing on the Indiana Rail Road later this year.


Union Pacific


BIG BOY TO MOVE IN DECEMBER: At press time, Union Pacific was expected to move Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 from the L.A. County Fairgrounds in Pomona to its West Colton, Calif., shop before Christmas, possibly on December 22. The locomotive had been moved from its long-time display site at the RailGiants Museum and across the fairgrounds parking lot between No- vember 14 and Thanksgiving (see December 2013 RAILNEWS). The move to Colton will re- quire the Metrolink main track to be cut and swung over to connect with the Big Boy’s panel track in the parking lot. After that, the locomotive will move over the com- muter railroad to CP Bassett. There, it will switch to UP’s Alhambra Sub for the trip to West Colton, where it will be prepared for the long move to the steam shop at Cheyenne, Wyo.


BRIDGE ELIMINATES MISSOURI DELAY: On November 25, 2013 Union Pacific opened a bridge over the Osage River at Osage City, Mo., which eliminates the last major single-track bottleneck on the rail- road’s route between Kansas City and St. Louis, which is also used by Amtrak’s daily, state-supported Missouri River Runner. The new, single-track 1200-foot long concrete ballasted deck bridge was built alongside the original single-track through-girder steel structure and is expected to substan- tially reduce delays for both UP freights and Amtrak trains.


First Canadian National Power is Assigned to the Bessemer


BESSEMER & LAKE ERIE SD40-3 NO. 905 WAS SIDELINED after it tangled with a truck at a grade crossing (inset) in Kiester, Penn., in August 2013, so parent Canadian National sent SD40-2W No. 5245 to fill in. This is the first CN unit to burnish Bessemer rails since the Canadi- an railroad took over in 2004. No. 905 is expected to return after repairs are completed at the Union Railroad shop in Hall, Penn. While the Bessemer’s roster has remained “pure” until now, sister road Duluth, Missable & Iron Range in Minnesota had most of its ex-tunnel motor SD40-3s replaced by Illinois Central and Canadian National SD40-2s shortly after the takeover.


Midwestern Canadian National Santa Trains Remain Popular


CANADIAN NATIONAL OPERATED ITS SANTA TRAIN on former Illinois Central lines south of Homewood, Ill., on two weekends in December, when families were able to tour the train and visit with Santa. On December 7, 2013, the train’s Illinois Central E9 was pulling up to the Gibson City depot, the first stop of a day which will end in the evening at Gilman. This year, all but one car wore CN’s green and black colors, and several were freshly repainted.


Virginia Museum of Transportation


NS DONATES BIG TO FIRE UP 611: After selling an untitled 1959 Mark Rothko painting from its corporate art collection for $3.693 million, Norfolk Southern donated $1.5 million of the proceeds to the Virginia Museum of Transportation’s Fire Up 611! fund. The artwork was sold at auction on November 14, 2013, by Sotheby’s in New York. The railroad divided the remaining proceeds from the auction among three other non-rail charities. In October 2013 VMT announced that in-


dividual and corporate donors had con- tributed enough money to mechanically re- store the former Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 to serviceable condition, but said that work would not begin until another $2 million to $2.5 million can be raised to build a two- track shop in which to maintain and display the big streamliner, along with a $5 million endowment to provide funds for future oper- ations. The November donation from NS puts that goal within reach. After the loco- motive returns to service, possibly by 2015, NS has promised to run it as part of the railroad’s 21st Century Steam program.


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