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ALBANY, N.Y. — Amtrak’s long-idle New York-Montreal Adirondack service — the only train still not running after being suspended by the passenger operator at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — will resume operation in April, according to New York’s two U.S. senators. U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand made the announcement Friday afternoon, […]
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s New York City Transit placed its first R211 subway cars into service on Friday, March 10, the first new additions to the New York subway fleet in five years. The Kawasaki-built R211 cars, placed into service on the A Line (8th Avenue Express), are the first in a […]
BOSTON — Blanket 25-mph speed restrictions remain in place on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line and Mattapan Trolley Line, but have been lifted on the Red, Orange, and Blue lines, following a Thursday night announcement of the systemwide slow order. The Boston Globe reports the overall restriction was lifted by 10:30 a.m. today […]
NEW ORLEANS — Amtrak will apply for a federal grant that, if approved by the Federal Railroad Administration, would pay for 80% of a study of track and station improvements necessary to extend a section of the New York-New Orleans Crescent between Meridian, Miss., and Fort Worth, Texas. Nicole Bucich, Amtrak’s vice president of network […]
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority instituted an immediate 25-mph speed restriction across its rapid-transit Red, Orange, Blue, and Green lines as of Thursday night following findings by the state’s Department of Public Utilities. The MBTA announced the restrictions about 10 p.m., the Boston Globe reports, after a visit to the Red Line between […]
NEW YORK — Continuing to adjust its recently introduced schedule to address demand for service at Penn Station, the Long Island Rail Road will shift four trains from Grand Central Madison to Penn beginning Monday, March 13. Four other trains will have stops added to their schedules. Morning rush-hour trains will see the 5:42 a.m. […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Brightline West, the planned high speed rail service between Las Vegas and Southern California, has announced agreements with buildings trades groups in California and Southern Nevada to ensure the rail project is built with union labor. The memorandum of understanding with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California and […]
WASHINGTON — Eighteen major projects in 11 states have been recommended for some $4.45 billion in construction funding as part of President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 Budget Request to Congress, the Federal Transit Administration has announced. This includes nine projects that would receive federal funding for the first time. Two rail projects are among those […]
Santa Fe 4-8-2 3746 roars up the Surf Line between Oceanside and Carlsbad, Calif., with a troop train on July 18, 1944. Union Switch & Signal photo […]
In this exclusive Trains.com video tour of an HO scale (1:87.1) model railroad based on New Haven operations in the 1950s and ‘60s, you’ll get to see close-up views of a masterfully detailed display! First showcased in the August 2004 issue of Model Railroader and Great Model Railroads 2020, Rick’s layout features exquisite catenary installations, […]
In this exclusive Trains.com video tour of an HO scale (1:87.1) model railroad based on New Haven operations in the 1950s and ‘60s, you’ll get to see close-up views of a masterfully detailed display! First showcased in the August 2004 issue of Model Railroader and Great Model Railroads 2020, Rick’s layout features exquisite catenary installations, […]
WASHINGTON — A conductor’s use of an emergency door release to open a car door while her train was operating at 40 mph, and Amtrak’s accepted practice of allowing such doors to be opened to monitor platforms while approaching a station, contributed to the death of the conductor in a January 2022 accident in Westerly, […]
