Miscellaneous

The Surface Transportation Board has denied a request to remove the 40-mile Fort Bragg-Willits rail corridor from the national rail network, preserving the line for continued freight and passenger use.

Wabtec Corp. has completed its acquisition of Dellner Couplers, a Swedish company specializing in couplers and gangways for passenger rail rolling stock.

As a boy in the early 1950s, Mike McLaughlin was a regular stowaway riding switch engines back and forth in Seattle, Washington. By the time he was in high school, he was hand-firing steam engines as an unofficial crew member.