NEW YORK — Statistic show continued improvement for New York City’s beleaguered subway system, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said at a Wednesday press conference. MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye, Managing Director Veronique Hakim, and NYC Transit President Andy Byford highlighted statistics showing better on-time performance and increased customer satisfaction. These latest performance results are […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose’s transit agency, the Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority, is proposing the closure of a little-used light rail line as part of a series of budget cuts. The 2-mile Ohlone/Chynoweth-Almaden branch would be replaced by bus service under the authority’s New Transit Service Plan, which will go before the authority […]
A Virgin Trains Pendolino train on the West Coast route in Oxenholme in northern England in July 2018. The trainsets are owned by a leasing business, not by Virgin, and will be used by whoever takes over West Coast operations. Keith Fender LONDON — Days after unveiling new the rebranded Virgin MiamiCentral station as part […]
Southern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 18, which is being leased to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad from the Carson & Colorado Railway, blew its right cylinder and shattered the piston during a run from Durango, Colo., to Cascade Canyon, Colo., on April 9, 2019. The “Slim Princess,” as it’s affectionately called, is a Baldwin […]
Big Boy No. 4014, shown at Pomona, Calif., in November 2013, is hot once more. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific said Wednesday steam shop crews lit a fire in Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 for the first time in 60 years on April 9. It was the first time the engine was […]
HOMEWOOD, Ill. — Canadian National continues to announce its capital spending plans in the United States, after previously announcing plans in Canada. The railroad has now announced plans in five states. It says it will spend $190 million in Illinois, $120 million in Wisconsin, $100 million in Tennessee, more than $95 million in Louisiana, and […]
WASHINGTON — Sixteen new and existing transit projects will receive a total of $1.36 billion in funding as part of the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grants announced Tuesday. In all, 22 projects have received approximately $5.06 billion in funding under the grant program since Jan. 20, 2017. Ten of those are rail projects, with […]
GLENVIEW, Ill. — The Glenview Village Board has voted to budget another $36,000 for its fight against efforts to increase Amtrak Hiawatha service between Chicago and Milwaukee, running the community’s total tab for the effort to more than $541,000. The Chicago Tribune reports that of the newly budgeted funds, $30,000 will go to a state […]
O’FALLON, Ill. —Ironhorse Resources Inc. announced the asset acquisition of the Sequatchie Valley Railroad (SQVR) and the Walking Horse and Eastern Railroad (WHOE). The Tennessee based railroads will be renamed Sequatchie Valley Switching Company (SQSC) and the Walking Horse Railroad (WHRR). The transaction becomes effective immediately. “As we’ve continued to pursue growth and acquisitions throughout […]
BOSTON — Service on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Fairmount line for the morning commute today (Wednesday, April 10) has been cancelled as the result of a Tuesday night collision and derailment of two MBTA trains near Boston’s South Station. No injuries were reported when a Fairmount Line train collided with an out-of-service train at […]
This NTSB diagram shows the site of the June 2017 accident that killed two CSX Transportation workers. National Transportation Safety Board WASHINGTON — The two CSX employees killed in a 2017 accident near Washington Union Station died as a result of their decision to walk on an active Amtrak track, the National Transportation Safety Board […]
Delaware-Lackawanna, seen here switching in Scranton, Pa., in July 2013, was recognized for increasing carloads over its lifetime. Trains: Jim Wrinn ORLANDO, Fla. – More than 1,700 members of the short line industry attended the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association’s 2019 Connections Convention in Orlando, Fla. Thirty-six education sessions were offered in ten […]
