Trains editors discuss all the rail news that’s fit to publish for the week of April 12, 2019. This week, editors discuss the Big Boy No. 4014 excursion; video of a steam locomotive breakdown in Colorado; Union Pacific trackage rights over Norfolk Southern, and more! […]
Section: News Wire
Bar cars unlikely to return on Metro-North, Connecticut DOT commissioner says NEWSWIRE
HARTFORD, Conn. — The commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Transportation says bar cars, once a popular feature on Metro-North’s New Haven Line, are unlikely to return any time soon. Joseph Guilietti, the DOT commissioner and a former Metro-North president, told the Hartford Courant the bar cars would only be viable if an outside vendor was […]
Gateway Project idles while politicians dispute progress NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao came under fire Wednesday at an appropriations hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, with transportation subcommittee chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., charging the Trump administration with “neglecting to include even one cent for the Gateway project” in its fiscal year 2020 budget request. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s proposed […]
‘Human error’ likely cause of MBTA collision, derailment
BOSTON — “Human error” is being blamed for Tuesday’s collision of two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trains near Boston’s South Station, which resulted in the derailment of one train and cancellation of commuter trains on the MBTA’s Fairmount Line for part of Wednesday. The accident occurred about 8 p.m. Tuesday, when a Fairmount Line train […]
Las Vegas commission to consider light rail plan NEWSWIRE
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The city’s first light rail line is one of the options under consideration today when the Las Vegas area’s transit agency meets to consider its preferred option for an 8.7-mile transit corridor. The Maryland Parkway corridor would begin near the Las Vegas airport and run through downtown to the Las Vegas […]
MTA touts continued improvement for New York subways NEWSWIRE
NEW YORK — Statistic show continued improvement for New York City’s beleaguered subway system, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said at a Wednesday press conference. MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye, Managing Director Veronique Hakim, and NYC Transit President Andy Byford highlighted statistics showing better on-time performance and increased customer satisfaction. These latest performance results are […]
San Jose to close light rail branch NEWSWIRE
SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose’s transit agency, the Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority, is proposing the closure of a little-used light rail line as part of a series of budget cuts. The 2-mile Ohlone/Chynoweth-Almaden branch would be replaced by bus service under the authority’s New Transit Service Plan, which will go before the authority […]
Virgin Trains bid for UK West Coast service disqualified NEWSWIRE
A Virgin Trains Pendolino train on the West Coast route in Oxenholme in northern England in July 2018. The trainsets are owned by a leasing business, not by Virgin, and will be used by whoever takes over West Coast operations. Keith Fender LONDON — Days after unveiling new the rebranded Virgin MiamiCentral station as part […]
VIDEO: Southern Pacific No. 18 blows a cylinder while on D&SNG excursion NEWSWIRE
Southern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 18, which is being leased to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad from the Carson & Colorado Railway, blew its right cylinder and shattered the piston during a run from Durango, Colo., to Cascade Canyon, Colo., on April 9, 2019. The “Slim Princess,” as it’s affectionately called, is a Baldwin […]
Big Boy No. 4014 fired up for the first time; May 12 excursion announced NEWSWIRE
Big Boy No. 4014, shown at Pomona, Calif., in November 2013, is hot once more. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific said Wednesday steam shop crews lit a fire in Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 for the first time in 60 years on April 9. It was the first time the engine was […]
CN announces capital spending plans across U.S., Canadian systems (updated) NEWSWIRE
HOMEWOOD, Ill. — Canadian National continues to announce its capital spending plans in the United States, after previously announcing plans in Canada. The railroad has now announced plans in five states. It says it will spend $190 million in Illinois, $120 million in Wisconsin, $100 million in Tennessee, more than $95 million in Louisiana, and […]
FTA announces $1.36 billion in grant funding NEWSWIRE
WASHINGTON — Sixteen new and existing transit projects will receive a total of $1.36 billion in funding as part of the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grants announced Tuesday. In all, 22 projects have received approximately $5.06 billion in funding under the grant program since Jan. 20, 2017. Ten of those are rail projects, with […]
