KEARNY, N.J. — NJ Transit unveiled three heritage locomotives Saturday at its annual Family Days event at its Meadows Maintenance Complex, and is scheduled to debut the locomotives for the general public on Tuesday. The three locomotives are GP40PH-2 No. 4109, repainted to a version of the Central of New Jersey livery it wore when […]
The Long Island Rail Road’s Hicksville, N.Y., station, as seen from a New York & Atlantic train. Main Line service between Hicksville and New Hyde Park will be suspended Oct. 5-6 for a bridge replacement project. TRAINS: David Lassen GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The Long Island Rail Road will suspend service between its New Hyde […]
NORTH CREEK, N.Y. — As negotiations to operate passenger trains on tracks from Saratoga to North Creek, N.Y., continue, the future of tracks running north from North Creek to Tahawus got cloudier this week when the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation asked the Surface Transportation Board to issue a Certificate of Interim Trail […]
ERIE, Pa. — CSX Transportation’s western New York presence may shrink if plans to slim Frontier Yard near Buffalo, N.Y., progress. According to a railroad source who spoke on condition of anonymity, CSX is still finalizing its plans. Those plans include the removal of bowl track groups 2 through 5 in the main yard. These […]
NJ Transit trains meet at the Elizabeth, N.J., station on Aug. 6, 2019. The New Jersey Senate has formed a committee to investigate the transit agency’s service issues. TRAINS: David Lassen TRENTON, N.J. — The president of the New Jersey Senate has announced creation of a select committee to investigate NJ Transit service, soon after […]
SECAUCUS, N.J. — The U.S. Coast Guard has made permanent its ban on opening Amtrak’s troublesome Portal Bridge during rush hour. A six-month trial period, banning the opening of the more-than-century-old bridge over the Hackensack River during peak periods on the Northeast Corridor, began in March. [See “Coast Guard will no longer allow rush-hour openings […]
PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, has leased nearly a half-dozen railcars from Maryland Transit Authority’s MARC Train service to accommodate anticipated ridership increases on its regional rail network because of long-term construction projects on Interstate 95. According to a recent statement from SEPTA, the agency was to begin using five MARC railcars […]
Boston & Maine 4-6-2 3664 on train 241 to Portsmouth, N.H., paces E7 3811 on train 147 to Portland, Maine, at Somerville, Mass., on Aug. 8, 1946. Albert G. Hale The history and major events of B&M For 150 years the Boston & Maine Railroad was an integral part of northern New England, beginning with […]
Reading & Northern’s “Customer Appreciation Special,” led by a pair of recently chop-nosed former Norfolk Southern GP38-2s, is seen at Mountaintop, Pa., Sept. 24, 2019. Scott A. Hartley Viewed from the upper level of Reading & Northern full-length “Super Dome” No. 4 on Sept. 24, 2019, the new $14 million bridge over the Lehigh River […]
NEW YORK — The resumption of weekday Express Acela service to Washington on Monday saw southbound train 2401 leave New York’s Pennsylvania Station at 6:35 a.m. on a two hour and thirty-five minute schedule: it heralded another effort to provide non-stop service, which had been operated sporadically over the last 50 years, by both Penn […]
Rick Geist ALTOONA, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Rep. Richard Allen “Rick” Geist of Altoona, Pa., a champion of railroading past, present, and future, died of a heart attack while vacationing in Russia late last month. He was 74. A consulting engineer, Geist represented the Altoona area in the State House for 17 terms (34 years), […]
The rebuilt Paoli, Pa., station opened on Sept. 23. Kitty Laepple PAOLI, Pa. — The Paoli Local has a new home, but lost two of its tracks in the process. The $48 million Paoli Station Accessibility Improvement Project officially opened on Sept. 23. Amtrak and SEPTA officials, as well as state and local dignitaries, cut […]
