The Heartland Corridor

The current issue of Trains has an interesting article on Norfolk Southern's Heartland Corridor project, which has improved clearances to accommodate double-stack trains along the former Norfolk & Western main line in Virginia and West Virginia.

It is a big, ambitious project, requiring extensive tunnel and bridge work.

But I'll let Norfolk Southern explain:





Norfolk Southern is investing in a way that does its heritage proud - this is big-time railroading. And this isn't all - there's the Crescent Corridor, too - but that's a post for another day.

The short take-away: exciting things are happening in Eastern railroading.

In The Heat Of The Night

Travelling home from Arkansas today... and somehow, this just felt right.



Never hurts that it features a Gulf Mobile & Ohio passenger train, either.

Unstoppable

Opens tomorrow (11/12/2010):

Unstoppable

Please, let it be great good decent.

Usually, train movies tend to be bad; not always, but the record is not good. Tony Scott is going to attempt the impossible, to make a train movie I can publicly admit to wanting to see.

No website to link to as yet.

Some amateur videos showing filming are available on Youtube, like these:

Western Coal Connection

The Burlington Northern moves coal in the late 1970s.

A big thanks goes to "mwmnp25" on Youtube, for making these available.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Powder River Trains

The Lively World of Great Northern

A promotional movie by the Great Northern Railway, just before its merger into the Burlington Northern in 1970. This is state of the art railroading, circa 1969.

A big thanks goes to "mwmnp25" on Youtube, for making these available.

Part 1:

Part 2: