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A Metra UP West train departs La Fox, Ill., and heads towards its final stop in Elburn on July 29, 2019. PTC-related changes to schedules for a number of UP West trains are among schedule adjustments announced by Metra. TRAINS: David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra will make minor schedule adjustments on five of its routes […]
NEWARK, N.J. — Two well-used stations on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor have received funding for station improvements. Newark’s Penn Station has received an $18.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, while the Providence, R.I.. station will receive $25 million from multiple sources for a facelift. Newark Penn, owned and operated by NJ Transit, serves […]
A NJ Transit train from New York arrives at Secaucus Junction, N.J., on Aug. 16, 2019. On Monday, a passenger fell from a train stopped at the station when the doors opened on the wrong side of the car. TRAINS: David Lassen SECAUCUS, N.J. — NJ Transit is investigating how doors opened on the wrong […]
New York Central boss Alfred E. Perlman, left, shakes hands with Chairman Robert R. Young, hanging out the window of the experimental Xplorer lightweight train in 1956. New York Central photo […]
Chesapeake & Ohio’s lengthy Sportsman curves east through the Blue Ridge Mountains at Afton, Va., in July 1965. William E. Warden Jr. photo […]
Santa Fe’s eastbound Golden State pulls into Stockton, Calif., on its way to Bakersfield in the 1950s. Passengers are lined up to board while a flagger holds vehicle traffic back from the grade crossing. Stan Kistler 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 […]
Its headlight dimmed for a meet, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train passes through the station at Princeton Junction, N.J., on Aug. 8, 2019. Amtrak has added service to Princeton Junction and New Brunswick, N.J. TRAINS: David Lassen NEW YORK — As of Monday, Aug. 19, Amtrak has added additional Northeast Corridor service to two stops […]
BALTIMORE — Light RailLink service between Camden Yards and North Avenue, shut down since the July break of a water main, resumed Monday morning. Baltimore Fishbowl reports that the Maryland Transit Administration resumed service that had been suspended since July 8, when the broken water main damaged an underground vault, creating a sinkhole that consumed […]
NJ Transit GPH40-2 No. 4105, a rebuild of a locomotive constructed for the Central of New Jersey in 1968, awaits departure from Hoboken. N.J., in June 2019. Seventeen dual-power locomotives from Bombardier are due to arrive in 2020, replacing NJ Transit’s oldest engines. Ralph Spielman MONTCLAIR, N.J. — New equipment is on the way to […]
Inbound NJ Transit train No. 3252 from Long Branch arrives late at New York’s Penn Station, setting the state for a late-departing train No. 3721 to the Jersey Avenue station in New Brunswick, N.J. NJ Transit will begin releasing reports explaining why trains have been delayed. Ralph Spielman MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Increasing transparency and accountability […]
ALTOONA, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s legislature will hold a hearing on the possibility of increasing train service between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The Aug. 28 hearing by the state house of representatives transportation committee’s subcommittee on railroads will be held at the Altona Railroaders Memorial Museum. It is scheduled for a 3 p.m. start. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review […]
