Tuesday afternoon rail news: Contractor says high speed rail agency’s failures are delaying work, leading to layoffs A major contractor in California’s high speed rail project says state failures have resulted in delays that could cause the project to miss a key 2022 federal deadline. The Los Angeles Times reports that construction firm Tutor Perini […]
Dramatic increase in COVID cases led to reduction of MBTA commuter rail service The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s December reduction in commuter rail service reflected a dramatic upswing in COVID-19 cases among the workforce of contract operator Keolis. State House News Service reports that the rail operator, which had 43 reported cases in the first […]
WASHINGTON — Colorado Pacific Railroad and parent company KCVN have asked the Surface Transportation Board to reject a request for permission to lease and operate Colorado’s Tennessee Pass line, charging the filing from Rio Grande Pacific subsidiary Colorado Midland & Pacific contains “materially false and misleading statements and representations.” It makes those claims regarding details […]
Monday morning rail news: DC Metro’s stimulus money should prevent service cuts, layoffs DC Metro will avoid significant proposed budget cuts for bus and rail service, thanks to $610 million it will receive from stimulus package passed by Congress at the end of December. The Washington Post reports Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board members […]
More Monday morning rail news: MTA, mayor say no plans exist to restore 24-hour subway service, even with 24-hour vaccination sites New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has no current plans to restore 24-hour subway service, a policy Mayor Bill de Blasio says is one where “the state and city were on the same page.” Streetsblog […]
An electric multiple-unit trainset for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro-North Railroad is hardly an everyday sight in suburban Chicago. This train of four Metro-North M8 railcars passed through Elmhurst, Ill., on the Union Pacific last Friday. The cars, en route to the New York area from Kawasaki Rail Car’s plant in Lincoln., Neb., are part […]
Still more Monday morning rail news: New York to connect High Line to Moynihan Train Hall New York’s High Line, the former elevated rail line turned into a hugely popular Lower West Side park, will be expanded with a 1,200-foot elevated walkway connecting the 1.45-mile linear park with the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall adjacent […]
By: Will Adams WINONA, Miss. — Production crews from Kapital Entertainment of Los Angeles are working this week in north Mississippi to recreate an Illinois Central passenger train that will play a key role in “Women of the Movement,” an ABC-TV series expected to air later this year. The circa-1950 passenger train consists of three […]
Monday midday rail news: Schultz joins STB, giving board a full five members Michelle Schultz has been sworn in as the newest member of the Surface Transportation Board, giving the agency overseeing rail regulation a full five members for the first time since a law expanding its membership passed in 2015. Schultz has spent the […]
Still more Monday morning rail news: Registration deadline approaches for MARS conference, featuring CP, BNSF CEOs The registration deadline is approaching for the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers winter meeting, to be held online on Jan. 20. The $25 registration fee includes 2021 membership dues; those who register before Jan. 15 will be able to […]
With several automakers temporarily halting or slowing production of some car models amid a global shortage of semiconductors, it’s only a matter of time before railroads feel the impact in their finished vehicle traffic. Several auto assembly plants across North America are affected by the shortage of computer chips that has been caused, in part, […]
Sunday rail news: No one hurt as UP locomotive explodes in Utah’s Echo Canyon No injuries were reported after North Summit, Utah, firefighters were called to a reported explosion of a Union Pacific locomotive in Echo Canyon early Saturday morning. The North Summit Fire District said in a Twitter post that the incident was reported about 3 […]
