Railroad Milestones Since 1945 - A Tool for Modelers.
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FEC acquired by parent of RailAmerica.
NS pulls out of Ontario, Canada.
Rarus Railway becomes Butte Anaconda & Pacific again.
Low profile domes mandated on new tank cars.
Elgin Joliet & Eastern merges into CN.
NS-Pan Am joint venture "Pan Am Southern" opens for business.
Great Sandhills Rwy spins off of Canadian Pacific.
Genset switchers appear in quantity.
UP completes Heritage Fleet.
KCS adopts "Southern Belle" paint scheme on new equipment.
Last Metroliners replaced by Acela Expresses.
UP & CSX start modern reefer unit train service.
Indiana Railroad doubles in size as CP/Soo exits the state.
Tuscola & Saginaw Bay becomes Great Lakes Central.
CN buys Savage Alberta Railway.
Dakota Minnesota & Eastern and IC&E merge with Canadian Pacific.
BNSF opens 3rd main track over Cajon Pass.
CN buys Matapedia & Golfe, Ottawa Central and New Brunswick East Coast.
Maryland Midland, Ohio Central System and Columbus & Greenville acquired by Genesee & Wyoming shortline group.
Florida East Coast engines first appear in RailAmerica red, white and blue colors.
233 miles of Montreal Maine & Atlantic sold to state of Maine for operation by Maine Northern.
TTX introduces new tuscan and black logo.
CSX and UP form UMAX container pool.
Norfolk Southern introduces a Heritage Fleet.
Genesee & Wyoming buys RailAmerica.
Ann Arbor joins Watco shortline group.
EMD GP20C-ECO, SD30C-ECO introduced.
Austin Area Terminal Railroad becomes Austin Western.
Carolina Coastal expands from the coast all the way to Raliegh, NC.
Coos Bay Rail Link opens for regular service.
FEC brings back the red and yellow.
Crude oil and frac sand traffic surges. Coal declines.
Rapid City Pierre & Eastern (part of the Genesee & Wyoming family) spins off of Canadian Pacific.
Guilford officially becomes Pan Am Railways. First Pan Am locos appear.
Montreal Maine & Atlantic becomes Central Maine & Quebec Rwy.
RailAmerica sells Esquimalt & Nanaimo to Washington Group who now calls it Southern Railway of Vancouver Island.
Evansville Western spins off of CSX.
Birmingham Southern becomes Birmingham Terminal RR.
Eastern Washington Gateway RR opens.
Blue Ridge Southern (part of the Watco family) spins off from NS.
Kelowna Pacific Rwy closes. CN resumes operation of the line.
EMD SD70ACe-P4 introduced.
Genesee & Wyoming shortline group buys the Pinsley shortline group.
BNSF acquires Nebraska Northeastern.
RJ Corman buys Grenada Railway and Carolina Southern.
New Mexico Rail Runner opens.
Okanagan Valley Rwy closes.
Severed by storms, Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad ends through service.
CP sells the D&H between Sunbury, PA and Schenectedy, NY to NS.
SunRail opens in Orlando.
Kanawha River Railroad (part of the Watco group) spins off of NS.
Heart Of Texas sold and becomes Central Texas & Colorado
River RR.
Providence & Worcester joins the Genesee & Wyoming group.
Delmarva Central opens in December.
Amtrak retires last AEM7.
CN buys Athabasca Northern.
Heart Of Georgia joins the Genesee & Wyoming shortline group.
Last Ringling Brothers circus trains.
Canadian Pacific
re-introduces the beaver to their logo.
EMD F125, SD70ACe-T4,
ES44C(T4C), ET44C4, ET44AH introduced.
SD70ACS, GP22ECO, SD22ECO, SD32ECO, ES44C4 introduced.
As of September, con-stencils are no longer required.
McCloud Railway fades away.
Huron Central closes.
OmniTRAX sells Hudson Bay Rwy to consortium of First Tribes.
Watco opens the Decatur & Eastern
Illinois RR.
Eastern Washington Gateway RR replaced by Washington Eastern RR.
Nashville & Eastern, Nashville & Western
and Music City Star acquired by RJ Corman.
Union Pacific and CSX disolve their STAX container pool.
RailUSA acquires Grenada Rwy and Florida Gulf & Atlantic. Introduces US flag paint scheme.
Precision Scheduled Railroading
operating method spreads to all Class Ones except BNSF.
Canadian National buys Montreal-Syracuse line from CSX.
Central Maine & Quebec is merged into Canadian Pacific in June.
Canadian Pacific and Canadian National fight over who gets Kansas City Southern. CP prevails and planning proceeds.
CSX proposes
acquiring Pan Am Railways but the STB has issues.
Missouri Eastern replaces Central Midland.
Pan Am Rwys - CSX merger is approved.
Pioneer Lines shortline group acquired
by Patriot Rail.
Consolidated stencils begin to re-appear on some new cars but are not mandatory.
Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merge on 4/15 to form Canadian Pacific Kansas City CPKC.