A light rail train passes through downtown Houston. The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County will present a $3.5 billion plan for expansion of its light rail system to voters in November. Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County HOUSTON — The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, is making a $3.5 billion bet that […]
CHICAGO, Ill. — The Indiana Rail Road is taking the debate over laws requiring minimum crew sizes for freight trains to federal court in Illinois. According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, Indiana Rail Road, along with railroad industry advocacy groups the Association of American […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A common theme woven through several presentations at a regional rail shippers’ conference this week involved a key question: Are railroads still relevant? The world increasingly expects transportation that’s fast, reliable, and easy. Railroads are slow, unreliable, and complicated. As a result, they’ve lost market share to trucks and often aren’t even […]
The Long Island Rail Road’s Hicksville, N.Y., station, as seen from a New York & Atlantic train. Main Line service between Hicksville and New Hyde Park will be suspended Oct. 5-6 for a bridge replacement project. TRAINS: David Lassen GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The Long Island Rail Road will suspend service between its New Hyde […]
The building’s entrance mimics the classic look of Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. Charles Freericks LOS ANGELES – One of Southern California’s best-known railfan edifices has been sold to be converted into creative office space. A near-replica of Los Angeles Union Station, the Allied Model Trains building in Culver City has been sold for $8.2 […]
Former Burlington E5 No. 9911A rests between runs at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union in 2015. Don Nickel Metra F40PHM-2 No. 211 displays its Burlington-inspired paint scheme. Metra CHICAGO – Commuter carrier Metra has unveiled its latest commemorative locomotive, EMD F40PHM-2 No. 211 in a faux-stainless Chicago, Burlington & Quincy paint scheme. The locomotive […]
SEATTLE — Microsoft has donated more than $223,000 to help complete a study of high speed rail between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Portland, Ore. Microsoft President Brad Smith announced the funding support at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference, which concluded Thursday. GeekWire reports this is the company’s second donation to the project, raising its total […]
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Precision Scheduled Railroading favors stockholders over shippers, has not improved service, and could ultimately lead to some form of re-regulation of the railroad industry, a Penn State University logistics professor contends. “As an outsider, I’ve been looking at PSR and trying to figure out what it is, what it does, and what […]
Association of American Railroads WASHINGTON — The Association of American Railroads on Wednesday reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Sept. 28, 2019, as well as volumes for Sept. 2019. U.S. railroads originated 992,542 carloads in Sept. 2019, down 7%, or 74,172 carloads, from Sept. 2018. U.S. railroads also originated 1,061,483 containers and trailers […]
A CTRail Shore Line East commuter train arrives at the State Street station in New Haven, Conn., as a Hartford Line train waits in the background for its turn to approach the platform. Connecticut’s Department of Transportation is forming an advisory panel of riders to aid in design of new cars for the commuter lines. […]
BRUNSWICK, Mo. — Debris from heavy rains took out a Norfolk Southern bridge over the Grand River on Tuesday, suspending service about 90 miles east of Kansas City, Mo. The stricken bridge was on the Kansas City district between Kansas City, Mo., and Moberly, Mo. NS is diverting traffic to other railroads and the incident […]
CSX 4317, a former Reading Co. GP39-2 shown at right, works at Yeoman Yard in Tampa, Fla., in March 2017. It now resides at the Reading museum in Hamburg, Pa. Scott A. Hartley HAMBURG, Pa. – A former Reading GP-39-2, one of the last new locomotives delivered to that railroad just months before the Conrail […]
