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U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) speaks to a crowd that came to see an Amtrak inspection train at Gulfport, Miss., in 2016. Wicker has been a key supporter of efforts to restore Amtrak service along the Gulf Coast, which took another step forward Thursday with announcement of a federal grant to fund first-year operating expenses. […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — One of the counties that is a member of the commission overseeing commuter railroad SunRail is asking out of the commission, and would surrender plans for a station in return. Volusia County made this offer Thursday at a meeting of the Central Florida Commuter Rail Commission, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Volusia […]
WASHINGTON — Beginning Friday, Amtrak will suspend service in Florida in anticipation of severe weather expected to hit the Southeastern U.S., the passenger railroad announced Thursday evening. According to the National Weather Service, Hurricane Dorian is on a track that could result in life-threatening storm surges in the southeastern U.S. on Sunday or Monday. The […]
RTA’s Canal Street streetcar route, restored to service 40 years after it was shut down in 1964, is a busy line, carrying tourists and residents through New Orleans’ central business district. The red replica streetcars, seen Aug. 12, 2019, were constructed by RTA. Scott A. Hartley NEW ORLEANS – The historic St. Charles Line streetcar […]
Gainesville Midland 2-10-0 No. 207 churns its 56-inch drivers across the Southern Railway’s Washington–Atlanta main line at Gainesville, Ga. The short line, which rostered five such locomotives, extended 40 miles from Gainesville southeast to Athens. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Chesapeake & Ohio’s lengthy Sportsman curves east through the Blue Ridge Mountains at Afton, Va., in July 1965. William E. Warden Jr. photo […]
Taxis and private autos wait at the cab stand on the east side of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in the 1950s. The complex, opened in 1954, sports a limestone facade. James G. La Vake photo […]
A southbound Gainesville Midland local lumbers into a curve near Candler, Ga., with 2-10-0 No. 209 up front. Bringing up the markers is one of the road’s two ex-Lackawanna cabooses. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Baldwin-built DS-4-4-660 No. 662 shows off its original Chesapeake Western paint scheme in a 1946 builder’s portrait. It resides today at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. Baldwin Locomotive Works photo […]
WASHINGTON — Canadian National will lease trackage in Mobile, Ala., to a new short line, Alabama Export Railroad, according to an Aug. 12 regulatory filing. The Alabama Export Railroad will operate 12.1 miles of former Illinois Central trackage in downtown Mobile and serve eight customers on the line. Alabama Export plans to work closely with […]
Phoenix Valley Metro crosses Tempe Town Lake on the Salt River in January 2009. Mike Schaller PHOENIX, Ariz. – Voters in Phoenix will decide whether they will have a future light rail network or any other passenger rail service at all. Proposition 105 would, if passed in an Aug. 27 election, amend the city charter […]
New York to Miami Silver Star train No. 91 was operating on track warrants and verbal communication with CSX Transportation dispatchers when it crashed into a parked CSX autorack train about 2:27 a.m. on Feb. 4, 2018, at Cayce, S.C. Jonathan Hinely WASHINGTON — Human error combined with inadequate attention to safety risk led to […]
