UP CEO Lance Fritz Union Pacific NEW YORK CITY — Industrial products traffic has been a lone bright spot for Union Pacific this year as plastics, petrochemical, and construction-related carload volume has continued to grow on the U.S. Gulf Coast. But UP has reduced car handlings enough through Precision Scheduled Railroading that it still does […]
Long Island Rail Road trains negotiate tracks at the east end of the Jamaica station in an image from Aug. 18, 2019. No injuries were reported when an LIRR train derailed east of the station on Friday night. TRAINS: David Lassen NEW YORK — Regular service has resumed on the Long Island Railroad following a […]
NS’s four executive F-units pull an office car train through Harrisburg, Pa., in August 2012. Trains: Jim Wrinn ALTOONA, Pa. — Two of Norfolk Southern’s “Fab Four” Electro-Motive F units — F9A No. 270 and F7B No. 275 — have been purchased by Pennsylvania regional Reading & Northern, the railroad announced Saturday. “We’re going to fix […]
MONTREAL — While pressure is increasing for the Canadian government to intervene in a strike against Canadian National Railway, government Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Friday that a negotiated agreement is “the most probable and the quickest way to solve” the situation. The strike by Teamsters Canada Rail Conference conductors, train crew persons, and yard […]
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — An Adirondack Scenic Railroad representative claims a New York State agency “seriously misled” the railroad when the agency sought a comment for its recent announcement about the state’s plan to tear out 34 miles of track to create a rail trail. The plan from the New York State Department of Environmental […]
NEW YORK — Canadian Pacific will upgrade Central Maine & Quebec trackage so that the route linking Montreal and Atlantic ports can handle premium intermodal and automotive traffic, Chief Marketing Officer John Brooks told the RailTrends 2019 conference on Friday. CP announced this week that it will acquire the CM&Q from Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure […]
A Denver RTD light rail train approaches the Orchard Station in Greenwood Village, Colo., in September 2018. RTD riders have indicated in a survey they’ll accept service cuts if they provide more reliability. TRAINS: David Lassen DENVER — Regional Transportation District passengers say they’ll take less service if it means more reliability. That’s the result […]
WASHINGTON — A threatened automatic cut to federal transportation funding, known as rescission, was avoided Thursday night when Congress repealed part of the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The portion that was repealed mandated massive cuts that would have taken effect July 1, 2020. President Trump signed the bill, which was added as […]
An inbound Metra UP West train departs the Glen Ellyn, Ill., station in March 2018. Glen Ellyn has received $14.4 million toward construction of a new station. TRAINS: David Lassen GLEN ELLYN, Ill. — Glen Ellyn has received a $14.4-million grant for a makeover of its Metra station, an event the community will celebrate with […]
The Go Fund Me page for a group attempting to save a Great Northern SD9 from the scrapper. Image from Save 599 Go Fund Me page SEATTLE — A GoFundMe campaign has been launched by rail-heritage enthusiasts in an effort to save a former Great Northern SD9 locomotive in Skykomish, Wash., from the threat of […]
A Suffern-bound NJ Transit train, with a PTC-equipped NJ Transit cab car leading a Metro-North locomotive, arrives at Secaucus Junction, N.J., in August 2019. Metro-North, unhappy with NJ Transit service, is increasing the amount of payment it is withholding from the New Jersey agency for contract operations on two lines. TRAINS: David Lassen NEW YORK […]
No injuries were reported in this collision and fire involving a Metrolink train Friday morning. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. — No injuries were reported when a Metrolink train hit a motor home at a grade crossing, setting the vehicle on fire and badly damaging the commuter train’s cab car. The […]
