WASHINGTON – The impact of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger on Metra commuter operations is even worse than initially thought, the Chicago area commuter railroad has told federal regulators. Changes to CP’s operations in the Chicago area as a result of the merger would cause up to a 1,200% increase in delays to commuter […]
CHICAGO — Canadian National’s proposed acquisition of CSX Transportation’s line linking Syracuse, N.Y., with Montreal is officially dead. The railroads informed a federal court last week that the purchase and sale agreement had expired and that the deal was off. As a result, the railroads asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit […]
GLASGOW, Scotland — Perhaps the next train was a milk run. Rail operator ScotRail posted photos on its Twitter account Monday of a cow which had escaped from a field and ended up on the platform of a Glasgow station, setting off a pun-filled exchange between the rail company and its Twitter followers, one of whom […]
WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration has selected 25 projects in 13 states to receive railroad trespassing enforcement and suicide prevention grants. A total of $1.96 million of the $2.26 million total in the Railroad Trespassing Enforcement Activities program will fund hourly wages for police to enforce trespass violations at known “hot spots,” where trespassing […]
WASHINGTON — A BNSF Railway conductor was working in an area “with insufficient walking space available … to perform trackside duties” when he was struck and killed during a switching move, the National Transportation Safety Board said in describing the probable cause of an April 2021 accident in Louisiana, Mo. The NTSB accident report, completed […]
BOSTON — One of two trains involved in a collision on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s rapid-transit Green Line this month failed to stop at a red signal and was traveling faster than the posted 7 mph speed limit, an investigator told an MBTA committee on Monday. The Associated Press reports that the train that […]
DALLAS — Carlos Aguilar is leaving Texas Central Railway — the proposed Dallas-Houston high speed rail line — after six years as CEO. In a statement issued via LinkedIn, Aguilar did not indicate a reason for departure or future plans, but said he was “immensely proud” of the company’s achievements, “including end to end regulatory […]
SILVIS, Ill. — Chinese-built No. 6988, a QJ 2-10-2, traveled the Iowa Interstate Railroad on Saturday, June 11, and Sunday, June 12, 2022, for a final time before its FRA 15-year inspection and rebuilding. Although the locomotive’s certification has expired the FRA granted a one-time extension for the two trips. The QJs — Nos. 6988 […]
WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board, making clear its unhappiness with service recovery plans filed by the four largest U.S. Class I railroads, will require those railroads to correct deficiencies in service recovery plans submitted to the board, and to provide additional information on how they plan to improve service and communication with customers. At […]
MADISON, Wis. — The Center for Railroad Photography & Art has acquired the majority of the photography collection of the legendary Richard Steinheimer, whose work often graced the pages of Trains Magazine and who blazed a creative trail across California and the West for six decades. The collection includes nearly all of Steinheimer’s color photography, […]
HAMILTON, Ontario — Railcar manufacturer National Steel Car, the target of worker protests last week after a third employee death in 21 months, is also facing charges over two “critical injury” cases, the Hamilton Spectator newspaper reports. Welder Quoc Le, 51 died June 6, reportedly after the fall of a 2,000-pound metal bulkhead. That led […]
WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board has turned down an application from a company seeking to revive a long-dormant portion of the former Northwestern Pacific route in Northern California after the company missed a filing deadline. The North Coast Railroad Co. was seeking to purchase 176 miles of rail line between Willits and Eureka, Calif., […]
